06-24-2008 | 01:04 PM EST | 1 Comments

Sometimes, everybody's got to do a little self-promotion, and for me, that time is today.

For those of you who don't know, I have another website called dave.caretcake at http://dave.caretcake.com. dave.caretcake is more or less a person . . .

The Rebels Strike Back

06-12-2008 | 02:20 PM EST | 0 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the battle that was taking place on the international standardizations' stage related to Microsoft's OOXML (Office Open XML) data format. At that time, it was unclear whether Microsoft would be able to push th . . .

No Defense for MediaDefense

06-02-2008 | 08:33 PM EST | 0 Comments

When a couple of teens recently knocked Comcast.net offline, the FBI went into overdrive to bring the criminals down. When a systematic attack by the recording and motion picture industries' corporate goons-for-hire brought down a large new medi . . .

Too Many Chefs

05-28-2008 | 02:32 PM EST

There's a discussion taking place in the international arena these days that will ultimately determine (in part) how businesses communicate, how people interact with their governments, and even how school children do their homework. To many peopl . . .

Preserve Culture: Donate to the Internet Archive

05-16-2008 | 11:54 AM EST | 0 Comments

A few weeks ago I mentioned the rise of audio re-mixing websites, and today I want to up the ante by suggesting that you not only contribute your re-mixes but your actual source work as well. Movies, music, text, even web pages, they're all being . . .

Ahoy! Thar be Pirates Everywhere

04-28-2008 | 06:00 PM EST | 0 Comments

These are dangerous times. From a Canadian Parliament member worrying about Canada's flagging global image as a result of its current copyright laws to China's recent "self-imposed" nationwide crackdown (more here and here) to the Bush adminis . . .

Giving Gates the Benefit of Doubt

04-23-2008 | 08:25 PM EST | 0 Comments

Okay, I'm going to give Bill Gates the benefit of the doubt on this one. Wired reported today that while speaking in Seattle on April 21 at the Institute for Systems Biology, Gates was asked if he would consider "open source uses" in health rese . . .

Free to Begin

04-15-2008 | 05:15 PM EST | 0 Comments

The first post on a brand new blog is a weird thing. On the one hand, you feel all kinds of pressure to set the right tone from the start. You have a lot of expectations about the future of the blog, what'll be covered, and what the response wil . . .