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Events | InitMarketing - Open Source marketing consulting and services tags: open source, marketing, initmarketing "Android is not open. It's a marketing label" - Networks - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com ...

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Diffing the Many Versions of the Stimulus Bill

If you've been following the trajectory of the Stimulus bill as it winds its way through the house, senate, bicameral committee, back to the house, and then on to the senate for one final vote before going to the president, you might have a bit of an i...

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7 things you may (or may not) know about me

...and may not have wanted to know. The illustrious Sara Dornsife tagged me - like, eons ago - to blog about the 7 things you may or may not know about me. It goes without saying that you may not have even wanted to know this, in which case you should ...

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The Free Software Song in a Previous Life

All I can say is.... holy christ, this was 9 years ago. And it's still just as embarrassing today as it was then - but because I'm further removed now, I can LMAO about it :)

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Gotta Love a Band that Understands the Interactive Web

Nice little widget from a band I had never heard of before today - Annuals.

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Washington Post: Activist Parents and School Boards

Here's an interesting article I just discovered on the washington post all about how parents are using the internet to organize campaigns designed to influence their local schools. This can naturally be a positive thing, but also not.Read the full arti...

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Telecom Overhaul, Part 2 - Now with Sarah Lacy

Listening to this morning's Forum program on KQED (highly recommended, by the way) the subject was about what constitutes "infrastructure" in the 21st century and how an Obama presidency would align his infrastructure priorities. There was discussion o...

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Building Vibrant Open Source Communities

This is a presentation I gave in March with Fabrizio from Funambol... with a few changes to reflect new observations since then :)Building Vibrant Open Source CommunitiesView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: opensource community)

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The Inevitable Decline of Deregulated Markets Into Crony Capitalism

It must be said that one of the most pernicious trends in government has been the resolute path toward libertarian ideology with the desire for a laissez faire utopia trumping all pragmatism and good sense. We've tried this deregulation experiment a fe...

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The Inevitable Decline of Deregulated Markets Into Crony Capitalism

It must be said that one of the most pernicious trends in government has been the resolute path toward libertarian ideology with the desire for a laissez faire utopia trumping all pragmatism and good sense. We've tried this deregulation experiment a few times now with mostly disastrous results: 1. C

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It's the Infrastructure, Stupid

(or how I learned to stop worrying and love socialism)As we prepare for the beginning of a new presidency and an ascendant Democratic party, my thoughts have turned recently to governance and what lessons we can draw from the Open Source phenomenon (I ...

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Walmart retires DRM, deserts users on the way to freedom.

Similar to Amazon, MySpace and other online music vendors it appears Walmart is transitioning to DRM free music offerings.  We applaud them for recognizing the information rights of their customers and removing the impediments to fair use which digital restrictions … Continue reading → [http://www.g

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Access to Knowledge Conference

Some things I just find out about too late. Consider the Access to Knowledge conference hosted by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. “A2K” was held in Switzerland from September 8 – 10. It looked like a really … Continue reading → [http://www.geek-pac.org/blog/2008/09/access-to-know

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In case you didn't know what day this is...

Avast, me hearties...

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2-day Extension for Fund Drive!

We got a 2-day extension for a fund drive. Can we make it count? Forward this link to all your friends, and let’s make this year’s election count: Donation page on fundable.com

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Things I Didn’t Hear from the Democratic Convention

Breaking news – donate to GeekPAC! 3 days remain on our fund drive. The Democratic National Convention is now over, and it’s time to take an account of what was (or wasn’t) said. Despite being regaled by some outstanding speeches … Continue reading → [http://www.geek-pac.org/blog/2008/08/things-i-di

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Fund Drive Update – Over 50% of the way there!

We’re entering the stretch run of our fundraiser, and we’ve crossed the 50% barrier! If you haven’t donated yet, now’s your chance: Donate at fundable.com! Coming soon: a donor’s page thanking those who have pledged.

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Wired: Copyright Owners Must Consider ‘Fair Use’ Before Sending Takedown Notice

Just saw this mentioned in Wired – a federal court judge in San Jose issued a ruling in the Lenz vs. Universal case, where Universal issued a DMCA takedown notice for content posted on Youtube, and the recipient of that … Continue reading → [http://www.geek-pac.org/blog/2008/08/wired-copyright-owner

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GeekPAC to fight for information rights

This is a nice introductory article about GeekPAC and its goals. Basically, a PAC is forming to address much needed intellectual property reform in the US - think copyright reform, patent reform, DMCA reform, etc. read more | digg story

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LWN.net Covers GeekPAC

This was an article published on LWN, written by Lisa Hoover. A very nice compendium of who we are and what we’re about: Link to article. Fundable.org page

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PublicKnowledge: Benefits of iPhone App Store tainted by 1984-like Control

- or - DO WE REALLY LIKE THE TASTE OF APPLE'S REMOTE-KILL KOOLAID? Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story about Apple’s App Store for the iPhone [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121842341491928977.html?mod=googlenews_wsj]. Clearly, having an easy way for mobile users to download apps is a good w

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PublicKnowledge: Benefits of iPhone App Store tainted by 1984-like Control

- or - DO WE REALLY LIKE THE TASTE OF APPLE'S REMOTE-KILL KOOLAID? Today’s Wall Street Journal has a story about Apple’s App Store for the iPhone [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121842341491928977.html?mod=googlenews_wsj]. Clearly, having an easy way for mobile users to download apps is a good w

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PublicKnowledge: Why the Cablevision Decision Matters

In my post from Monday [http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1697], I laid out a very brief outline of some of the conclusions reached by the Second Circuit in its Cablevision decision [http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/cablevision-decision-20080804.pdf] on remote DVRs. Today, I want to take a step

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PublicKnowledge: Why the Cablevision Decision Matters

In my post from Monday [http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1697], I laid out a very brief outline of some of the conclusions reached by the Second Circuit in its Cablevision decision [http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/cablevision-decision-20080804.pdf] on remote DVRs. Today, I want to take a step

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Hacking the Election Birds-of-a-Feather

Tonight at 6pm at LinuxWorld, GeekPAC will host a Birds-of-a-feather on “Hacking the Election.” If you’re at LinuxWorld, it’s in room 310 at 6pm. See you there!