Alejandro@Oxford

Yesterday, Wikileaks leaked the draft of the Open Source Software Work Group’s “European Software Strategy.” In which it seems that Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology, an organization linked to Microsoft, has relevant input. It seems that one of the things they are trying to do is to redefine open source to [...]

I consider myself a critical supporter of BO (for Barack Obama, not for not using deodorant), yet I thought that I will have to wait a bit longer before I criticize him or his policies or his team or whatever, at least until I see he makes the same mistake twice – for I reckon [...]

These are some interesting links I found for February 23rd through February 25th:

Atlas – 280 North –
Google Chief for Charity Steps Down on Revamp – NYTimes.com –
Slashdot | Chinese Blogger Chosen As Head of Investigation –
Findings – Politics in the Guise of Pure Science – NYTimes.com –
Coulisses de Bruxelles, UE: La [...]

This is an interesting story for science of technology. New discoveries regarding the cannons used by the British navy against the 200-ship Spanish Armada (you know the one that got busted by a storm and the English channel, or so it was said) in 1588 point to the existence of supercannon that could at nearly [...]

It is 2003, Microsoft Windows XP is nearly in every computer on earth and Windows Vista is still a project, yet users have to suffer the everyday pains of this system with its incomprehensible dialog boxes, beeps and install/reinstall/uninstall processes. There is one particular user that suffers in silence…until one day he writes a long [...]

These are some interesting links I found for February 22nd through February 23rd:

Howard Rheingold’s Vlog –
Oops: Microsoft Asks Some Laid Off Workers To Send Back Part Of Their Severance –
Robert Fisk: Obama was unconvinced by Bibi’s desire for peace – Robert Fisk, Commentators – The Independent –
The Forms of Capital by Pierre [...]

These are some interesting links I found for February 19th through February 22nd:

San Francisco Man In Massive "Wife Swap" Fallout (VIDEO) – personallifemedia.com
Obama Targets Budget Deficit – washingtonpost.com –
getdoc.cgi (application/pdf Object) –
Project Cybersyn: Chile 2.0 in 1973 « iRevolution –
Revolution, Facebook-Style – Can Social Networking Turn Young Egyptians Into a Force for [...]

“The social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia reports that all its user data was irretrievably lost in the Jan. 30 database crash that knocked the service offline. Ma.gnolia founder Larry Halff recently discussed the crash and the lessons to be learned from Ma.gnolia’s experience. A lesson for users: don’t assume online services have lots of staff and [...]

Following from my previous post, I’d like to continue discussing about the value of shared content. Simplifying, I divide sharing in two: original and remix . The first is when we share content without changes, and the second when we change it adding new elements. In the first, the value for the author lies on [...]

Do you know Freakonomics? It is a New York Times’ blog by a journalist, Steven J. Dubner, and a University of Chicago economics professor, Steven D. Levitt. They are the co-writers of the popular book Freakonomics, and their blog is its continuation. Some other people contribute regularly – Ian Ayres, Daniel Hamermesh, Eric Morris, Sudhir [...]