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OSSification
Sitting comfortably? Take a look at this excerpt from what appears to be a manual written maybe sixty years ago: Do you identify with any of it? Recognise those behaviours from anywhere? Stay seated....
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The customer is the scarcity
Every economic era is characterised by certain abundances and by certain scarcities; these change over time; yesterday’s abundances become today’s scarcities and vice versa. When I was a young child in...
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Thinking about food and music and climate change
I think about food. A lot. In fact I’m perennially hungry, have been that way ever since I can remember. So it should come as no surprise that every now and then, I try and view things from the...
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Thinking about monkeys and engineers and copyright
I just love this. First, take a folk song popular in the 1960s, written by someone born in 1896. Once upon a time a engineer had a monkey and everywhere he go why he’d take the little monkey along and...
View ArticleThe Digital Economy Bill: The Power of Not Being Elected
Gordon Brown, the UK PM, will be calling for a general election very soon; he may even become the first to make that call in the Commons. This is happening at a time when trust in the parliamentary...
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The Digital Economy Bill: Fred Figglehorn, won’t you please come home?
Do you know who Fred Figglehorn is? He’s is a fictional 6-year old with his own TV channel. Not any old TV channel. It’s modern, it’s 21st century. And yes, it’s on YouTube. I quote from Wikipedia:...
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On pasta and music and copyright
I love food. I love cooking. I use the analogy of food to learn about information: in fact, I’ve nearly finished writing a book that looks in detail at information as if it were food. One of the foods...
View ArticleDoes the web make experts dumb?
For information to have power, it needs to be held asymmetrically. Preferably very very asymmetrically. Someone who knows something that others do not know can do something potentially useful and...
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Does the Web make experts dumb? Part 2: Who’s The Teacher?
I try and make a point of looking for the good in people; I try and make a point of looking for the good in situations; I try and make a point of looking for the good in outlook and expectation. Those...
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Musing about unheralded heroes and heroines and accidental criminals and IPR
I love Auden’s poetry. I have particular fondness for The Unknown Citizen (or JS/07/M/378, the reference Auden gave to him), so much so that I tend to recall the closing lines of the poem almost weekly...
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