Went to a brainstorming session for OneWeb Day last night. While the project seems almost quixotic in some ways, it is definitely a worthwhile project, and I hope it succeeds- I still very clearly remember the first time I had a social conversation with someone from a different country who I’d met and worked with [...]
Category Archives: work
Misc.
10-May-06group portrait in second life
02-May-06left to right: Luis, Jeff, Snorp
Paul Cooper elaborates on my posts on OpenOffice, highlighting that the place that free software can attack (and not just follow) is software that crosses the boundary of the single device. We’re currently pretty lousy at that. Interesting post.
Tangentially, at work, we’re playing with Second Life. So far we’re doing a lot of things that [...]
bloggership
28-Apr-06I’m at the bloggership conference here at work, where the panelists are discussing the relationship of blogging to traditional scholarship (specifically in the legal realm.) Really interesting stuff. Tim Armstrong (as usual) writes about it very well, and Michael Froomkin has a list of other people who are blogging it. If you’re curious, it is [...]
Great post by Dare Obasanjo (MS employee) titled ‘New Features Are Not Innovation’ that everyone in software should read.
Along those lines, on the one hand, I’m thrilled to see that ekiga is working on improving their UI, but on the other hand, what I really want to do is lock ekiga, gaim, and evo in [...]
Benkler in Boston; me in California
17-Apr-06The utterly brilliant Yochai Benkler (who just published a new book on the Wealth of Networks, available in hardcover, CC-licensed PDF, or in wiki) will be giving a talk and book signing tomorrow night at work. He is a great speaker (much better speaker than writer, IMHO) and anyone who is in the area and [...]
Creative Commons is having a global summit in Rio at the same time we’re doing GUADEC- Lessig has blogged the details. I went to the first one, right here in Cambridge, and it was a blast. I’d highly recommend that any Free Software folks (particularly GNOME contributors) who are in Brazil or elsewhere in Latin [...]
Berkman In A Nutshell
12-Apr-06So, I’m doing a talk today over at HBS, talking about how cool where I work (the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School) is. Instead of making up a slide deck, I thought I’d just use a web browser to walk people through the coolest stuff we do. And since my [...]
Sun’s Open Source DRM
10-Apr-06For a variety of reasons I’ve been looking into Sun’s ‘open source DRM’ scheme at work. Architecturally, it seems like a pretty solid solution. If you’re going to do CRAP, you might as well do it with open standards for interoperability between the different layers of the CRAP stack, so that people aren’t locked into [...]
rss email followup
10-Apr-06The lazyweb (via the excellent Boris Anthony) coughed up a wordpress plugin that does exactly what I want, and a service called feedblitz that looks pretty close. Also got email about Feedlinx, another similar but not-quite-what-I-want service.