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Category Archives: Information Technology
Joomla! Demo Camp Notes
Just thought I would cross-post them. They are at Tazzu as well. For those who don’t remember, I was at the Vancouver Joomla! Demo Camp last month, and posted directly from there. My notes are in point form. Click below … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Information Technology
Tagged Joomla, Joomla DemoCamp, Tazzu, web design
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Nine Inch Nails in the RIAA’s Coffin
According to Prof. Larry Lessig, Nine Inch Nails’ latest album has been released under Creative Commons. Kudos to Trent Reznor! http://lessig.org/blog/2008/03/nin_goes_cc.html I tried to comment but Prof. Lessig’s blog is giving me some sort of SQL error. Here is my … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged copyfight, creative commons, Lessig, NIN, Nine Inch Nails, RIAA
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Selling your everything: Non-comp clauses, IP, and employment contracts
I would like to write, today, about a murky subject I’ve been thinking about for a few weeks. The various forms the germ of this post has assumed over those weeks all stem from a particular type of clause – … Continue reading
Joomla Demo Camp – Vancouver
I am spending this evening at the Joomla! Demo Camp at The Network Hub in downtown Vancouver. Joomla! is an open-source content management system (CMS) that makes creating sophisticated websites with dense, extensive, and/or media rich content as easy as … Continue reading
Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology
Tagged CMS, Content Management, Joomla, Joomla DemoCamp, Tazzu
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Congratulations, Professor Michael Geist!
Prof. Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa is the Canada Research Chair in E-Commerce and Internet Law, an advocate for users’ rights in the copyfight, and the recipient of an EFF Pioneer Award: Slaw Electronic Frontier Foundation Professor Geist … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property
Tagged copyfight, EFF, Michael Geist
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Net Neutrality and New Media Regulation
Today I’m going to look at the inevitable intersection of ‘Net neutrality and new media regulation. The populist position – one with which I concur – is to want ‘Net neutrality, and not to want new media over-regulation (and in … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, Information Technology
Tagged content regulation, crtc, net neutrality, new media
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EULAs and Interration
Ed Castronova proposes a legal rubric called interration, kind of like incorporation for virtual worlds. He divides all virtual/synthetic/online/artificial worlds into two categories: closed and open. Closed worlds have no interaction with the outside world (Earth, real life, meat space, … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Castronova, EULA, interration, Lastowka and Hunter, permeability, virtual world
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The Hacker Crackdown – a podcast
Cory Doctorow has read aloud Bruce Sterling‘s book, The Hacker Crackdown. He has created a podcast of the whole thing. Follow the link below: Cory Doctorow’s announcement on Boing Boing of the podcast of The Hacker Crackdown. For those of … Continue reading
EULAs aren’t all bad
End-User License Agreements aren’t all bad. They are necessary for interration – that incorporation-like thing for virtual worlds that Castronova talks about – in order to set out and delimit the game space. It is when they violate Castronova’s closed/open … Continue reading
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