Back at the end of September we finally got to the point of releasing the first draft of the Open Data Commons License. This is work I've been involved in since Ian's first draft of the TCL about a year and a half ago.
It's great to see this license come to fruition, having argued about the need for this more than once.
a while back, when I switched machines, I lost my feedreader - and all the blogs I was following with it. ho hum, a great opportunity to find out which I missed and to find new ones :->
Just discovered I miss Tinfoil + Raccoon. Paul and I caught up with Rochelle in the OCLC bloggers salon at ALA this summer. Much beer was consumed.
For those reading outside of England...
We've just had the first run on a bank in 150 years - Northern Rock has been forced to borrow billions of pounds from the Bank of England. It's been really interesting to watch.
I've been head down for a while on work things, doing a whole load of data munging as well as the usual dev work. But my Mac went pop a couple of weeks ago and Apple decided the best thing was to replace it rather than fix it; fine by me. It seemed like a good opportunity to look at what I have installed and list what's on my machine and why:
life's been a little hectic this year, having been away 7 times in the first 6 months. Being back in the country I've been spending free time with my wife and 3 little cherubs rather than here blogging for whoever's reading.
But I have still been blogging, along with Richard, Paul, Ian and Danny I've been blogging for work on both Panlibus and Nodalities. If I'm not here then you may catch me there.
This post originally appeared on Talis' Nodalities blog.
The first steps of the Semantic Web are now a short distance behind us and some organisations are starting to pick up the pace. With more and more data coming online, marked up for linking and sharing in a web of data, perhaps it’s time to look again at the trade-off of different intellectual property rights.
A few folks around the office and in the pub have been a bit skeptical about how fast we're going to have really big touchable displays.
So, the Surface. A nice interactive multi-touch device from Microsoft.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgXwmXpaH2Q
This is Cory talking at Google about the ways we're (well, the US really) killing our ability to participate in a true information age.
"Surface Computing has Arrived" Microsoft Surface !!!
In a combination of many of the different touch techniques I've talked about before Microsoft have produced a beautiful marketing piece for multi-touch surfaces.