by Derek Morrison, 21 August 2009 It’s hard to think of a more ironic example of the new world order that media companies would like to inflict on us than that recently demonstrated by Amazon’s recent auto-deletion of George Orwell’s 1984 “purchased” by owners of Amazon’s Kindle ebook platform. The story was all over the […]
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Books are a networked object?
July 6th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 6 July 2009 There was a most interesting feature about the Open Library initiative titled The Library that Never Closes in last week’s Guardian (2 July 2009) which I think is worth reading. Here’s a few snippets to encourage you to read the full article. “Imagine books more as a networked object, […]
Project Canvas
March 7th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 7 March 2009 The BBC’s iPlayer is undoubtedly successful but yet the service constrains its users to viewing its streamed or downloaded material on a computer. Not for much longer apparently. Over on the BBC Trust site we find an account of Project Canvas which in essence seems to be broadband connection […]
Storm Clouds?
September 9th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 9 September 2008 (addendum added 26 September 2008) The recent release of Google’s Chrome is not intended to offer just another web browser to a marketplace already largely segmented by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, or the eponymous Opera (plus a few other more minor players). No, Chrome is meant to advance […]
A walk in the software patent forest – Part 4
July 21st, 2007
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Originally posted by: Derek Morrison on Feb 02, 07 | 6:55 am | The story continues. Yesterday (1 Februrary 2007), Blackboard issued a press release which announced their Patent Pledge in which they undertake not to assert their patents against open source or ‘home grown’ systems just as long as they are not bundled with […]
A walk in the software patent forest – Part 2
January 3rd, 2007
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Yesterday’s part 1 of the sofware patent topic took a fairly conventional quasi essay format. Today, however, I’m offering a concept map visualisation of the topic. Download article as PDF
A walk in the software patent forest – Part 1
January 2nd, 2007
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I haven’t being paying as much attention to Auricle as I would like to. My excuse is I’m contributing to and managing a series of other blogs and wikis for my work with the Higher Education Academy, e.g. the Benchmarking of e-Learning Exercise, and the Pathfinder Programme. Today, however, I thought that I would stand […]
