Sony XCP Scandal.
This could me a major milestone for free culture. My pledge: I’ll never again buy a Sony product. Follow everything at the The Sony Boycott Blog.

Data Should Be the Intel Outside” href=”http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/07/data_should_be.html”>O’Reilly Radar > Data Should Be the Intel Outside
Amen. Dividing product from the commons. Creating open competition.

This is an attempt of a transcript of Ole Grünbaum’s talk, “Farewell to the Simple Society” adressed to the FDIH general meeting march 30th 2005. I’m blogging it because if think he makes an interesting point – not because i totally belive what he says. As always it’s a simplified narrative to fit a talk or a book. Also it can be said that’s it’s writing to prove your own points 40 years ago and how they we’re right – at least that was the initial reacting by some …

Yahoo has a wonderful 10 year net retrospective in celebration of their 10 years of existence. Nicely done in a 10×10 style.

Christie’s – The Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking & Telecommunications
On the 23th of february Christie’s is having a big auction of digital history artifacts. I’ve put in a bid for a item – but i’m expecting a mass craze. Long time readers of this blog will easily be able spot the item in the catalogue.

21C3, The Usual Suspects December 27th to 29th 2004, Berlin. The European Hacker Conference.

Capturing this moment in time beautifully!
Mike Kuniavsky really captures this moment in time with this blog post
“I look at this collection and try to identify what binds it together. The pattern that appears is a recognition of the complexity of the world, of the unpredictability of the world, of the incomprehensibility of the world, of the contingency of the world, of the time-based, sporadic, overwhelmingly confusing nature of the world.
What I realized while looking at this list is that we are awakening to the fact that the more we know …

Linux Times interviews Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds: Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small _trivial_ project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you’ll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision.
So start small, and think about the details. Don’t think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn’t solve some fairly …

The infinite loop of solutions
New solutions creates new problems that needs new solutions.
Only through longterm thinking when creating new solutions can we sometimes improve a bit in each loop.
(the above probably has a fancy name when someone thought of it originally)

Fortune: A PC Pioneer Decries the State of Computing. Great interview with Alan Kay [via evhead:
– “The computer revolution hasn’t started yet…we’re not even close to what we should have”
– “We’re running on fumes technologically today. The sad truth is that 20 years or so of commercialization have almost completely missed the point of what personal computing is about.”
– “You can read a document in Microsoft Word, and write a document in Microsoft Word. But the people who did web browsers I think were too lazy to …