Written by on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 in free software, Technical Support, Intellectual Property, Information Access, Learning-Educational Technologies.
Curious to learn how we got where we are in terms of personal computers and operating systems we use? This great video mashup, tells you in four-minutes, where we are coming from and what alternatives are out there, if you don\’t like what you see. …
Written by on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 in free software, Technical Support, Intellectual Property, Information Access, Learning-Educational Technologies.
Curious to learn how we got where we are in terms of personal computers and operating systems we use? This great video mashup, tells you in four-minutes, where we are coming from and what alternatives are out there, if you don\’t like what you see. …
Written by on Thursday, March 1st, 2007 in RSS, free software, video publishing, Video - Internet Television, Video-Internet Television, Video Production, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.
Publishing and viewing online video is an incredibly simple prospect these days, and the hardest part of it is choosing which of the many video sharing services to use. However, if you are hoping to use free software - free as in freedom, in the GNU, Richard Stallman sense of the word - it isn\’t always quite so simple. A great many of the online video sharing websites use proprietary formats, with Adobe\’s Flash video being the most popular. So what can you do if you want to publish and watch online video without betraying your commitment to the free software cause? Photo credit: Aurelio A. Heckert and Tina Rencelj If you\’re willing to dig around there are a surprising …
Written by on Thursday, March 1st, 2007 in Privacyand Security, Technical Support, alternative news, news, free software, Wi-Fi, anonymity, email, RSS, Video Production, Video-Internet Television, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Social Networking, Online Collaboration, video publishing, Video - Internet Television, Information Access.
Publishing and viewing online video is an incredibly simple prospect these days, and the hardest part of it is choosing which of the many video sharing services to use. However, if you are hoping to use free software - free as in freedom, in the GNU, Richard Stallman sense of the word - it isn\’t always quite so simple. A great many of the online video sharing websites use proprietary formats, with Adobe\’s Flash video being the most popular. So what can you do if you want to publish and watch online video without betraying your commitment to the free software cause? Photo credit: Aurelio A. Heckert and Tina Rencelj If you\’re willing to dig around there are a surprising …
Written by on Saturday, February 24th, 2007 in Privacy and Security, free software, content licensing, DRM, Privacyand Security, Social Networking, Intellectual Property, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution.
Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is an all-too-pervasive means by which the manufacturers of hardware and software - including music and video - place restrictions upon the people that buy it from them. If you have ever downloaded a music track from iTunes, or a movie from Amazon Unbox, bought an audio book from Audible or tried to get your music collection back off an iPod, you have already come into contact with DRM. Photo credit: Ovidiu Predescu Effectively, DRM is a means of controlling and restricting how you listen to, watch or interact with your digital media. For one, it is designed to prevent you from sharing it with your friends, and for another it is kept in place …
Written by on Friday, February 16th, 2007 in open-source, free software, InformationDesignandData Visualization, Online Collaboration, ContentDeliveryAnd Distribution, Learning-Educational Technologies.
Open-source software is revolutionizing business, transforming governments and enabling education across the planet. Open-source is built on the principle that the source code of a program should be readily accessible, so that users have the right to maintain, adapt and improve the software they use in any way they see fit. Linux, Firefox and Wikipedia are just three of its success stories, which are too many in number to count. But where did open-source come from, and where is it headed next? Image credit: Open Source Initiative (c) The feature length documentary Revolution OS offers excellent insights into both questions, tapping into the thoughts and stories of the people that made open-source a reality. Open-source and Linux didn\’t spring up …