Author: Ben Werdmuller
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Hypothetical items I’d buy for Christmas if I could
If these products existed, they’d make it onto my Christmas list for me and my loved ones: The open ebook reader Electronic paper screen A DRM-free format (in a perfect world) or at the very least a format that allows borrowing (from libraries and friends), lending and passing on of ownership, like a real book…
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The Open Stack is the future of the Web
The Open Stack is a term coined by Joseph Smarr to represent the core set of open technologies that web application developers are converging on: I spent Friday evening at the Digg offices in San Francisco for the first ever Open Stack meetup. Organised by David Recordon (who continues to be a superhero in this…
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Free speech radio
I just finished watching Pirate Radio USA, a great little independent documentary about pirate radio and free speech over the airwaves. It makes one major, fundamental point: although freedom of expression is guaranteed by the US constitution (and by similar laws in many countries worldwide), because the medium of that expression has changed over time,…