Alejandro@Oxford

I am lately posting more often in my Blog of Change. Go and check my latest posts there about the food crisis, Spain’s lack of public transparency and Lawrence Lessig’s presentation skills.

Have a look at this interesting story on how a wrong edit in wikipedia get into an news article on the UK newspaper The Independent, it is then deleted for being wrong, and it is added again and again with a footnote directed to The Independent article as a credible source. This makes me think [...]

Very recently, US Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, said in a speech at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, US, that “”criminal syndicates, and in some cases even terrorist groups, view IP [intellectual property] crime as a lucrative business, and see it as a low-risk way to fund other activities”, ArstTechnica reports. No examples [...]

OII professor Jonathan Zittrain is on Macworld with a long article (“How the iPhone is killing the ‘Net’“) about his new book “The Future of the Internet and how to stop it“. I’d just wish they would have mentioned the Oxford Internet Institute, I reckon there is still some work to do on external image [...]

An example of cooperation between the United Nations and Google in the new Google Earth map of refugees.