I think we could all agree that cybercrime is a growing threat. Online fraud, phishing, viruses, hacking, DDoS, and spam, consumer are increasingly at risk from online security vulnerabilities that could translate in financial loss. What is the UK’s response to the threat? “Call your bank”. The Guardian carries a Read more…
Wikipedia is great. However, as a sometimes editor, I’m starting to grow tired of getting involved in endless editing wars with people who are not experts on the subjects. If you don’t like a rant, look away now. I’m perfectly happy with people editing and disagreeing on all sort of Read more…
The Creative Commons blog has published some of the latest licence usage statistics. Mike Linksvayer and Giorgios Cheliotis have made public some of the statistics presented at the iSummit, which provide a lot of tasty food for thought for licence geeks everywhere. The data comes with a lot of caveats, Read more…
As I mentioned earlier this week, the GPL version three is finally out. Richard Stallman read a statement yesterday announcing the much-awaited launch, which will undoubtedly be met with both trepidation and caution in software development circles. The text will maintain some of the more controversial features present in the Read more…
In September 2006, panGloss and yours truly organised the first GikII workshop, a tremendously entertaining gathering of like-minded people willing to discuss the interface between geek culture and the law. The resulting workshop provided a look at the virtual personality of avatars; legal aspects of fandom, anime and even hentai; Read more…
Terra Nova reports on the potential business migration from Second Life, due in part to its “clunky technology”. Some of the early comers in the virtual market, such as Well Fargo, have left and set up their virtual tent elsewhere. I agree with TN about the fact that this is Read more…
Last night I attended Professor Eben Moglen’s lecture at the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh, organised by the Scottish branch of the Society for Computer and Law. The first thing I noticed was that that the audience present in the lecture theatre was starkly divided between the Read more…
I thought that the best judge for the llama competition had to be Linda’s daughter Bethany, who chose the llama in the first place. The winner is Lilian (funny, I didn’t think it was female). In an executive decision, I’ve decided to call it Lillian to differentiate it with the Read more…
As part of the synergy generated in the iCommons summit, several Latin American leads suggested the creation of a new aggregated blog bringing together voices talking about open content, CC and other related topics. Thanks to Katitza Rodríguez from CC-Peru we now have a new blog. If you would like Read more…