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Today, I was reading for my thesis Sanger's The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir.
The passage that caught my attention is this one:
Beyond this, however, I believe I was given a pretty free rein. So I spent the first month or so thinking very broadly about different possibilities. I wrote quite a bit [...]

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I spent March and April working on the thesis outline, while part of April and May on the collection and analysis of data for my Master thesis.
Last week I started writing it. Well, mostly it was adjusting the thesis outline and setting up the introductory chapter. Ahead are coming some stressful weeks.
The thesis is an [...]

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IP Watch published a good article about a topic that the more I read about and the more I think it's an issue that we should address more carefully: privacy, data retention and data mining.
Ad hoc, the title of the main conference of Ars Electronica, held this year: "Goodbye Privacy". And from the conference [...]

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Scandinavia is an European area that is usually much more aware about IT issues than other regions. That's why i'm both happy and not surprised to come to know that Denmark, Norway and Sweden showed to be skeptical about Microsoft's OOXML file-format.
OOXML is now being processed through the national standardization bodies all around the world. [...]

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I managed, a couple of days ago, to create a virtual machine for installing and running a language course program.
Tell Me More, by Auralog unfortunately runs only on MS Windows systems and there was no way i could have run it under Wine, so my last solution has been to install a virtual machine for [...]

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Some people don't like it, some do. Some hate it and some love it. Somebody don't know what it is useful for, some other don't even open their house door without checking the "door" entry in it.Whatsoever are your feelings about Wikipedia, i doubt you can honestly say "you can ignore it". The very existence [...]

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Microsoft included an Add-on in its new Office suite for Windows Vista to be able to open/save ODF files. But from how this has been implemented and/or integrated into the system, two possibilities arise.

Programmers and software engineers have no clue of what a good design and a good usability implementation in software are.
Programmers and software [...]

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Tha AACS didn't last long as a virgin DRM system. Ok yes, true!…they're going to release the patch and all the encryption keys burden pretty soon. But what's the point of this if already people claim that The Matrix Reloaded trilogy is available cracked and ripped even if it is supposed it  has been used [...]

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Ok! It's been a few days now that the rumours or news about the Bloggers' Code of Conduct raised up. Articles and different point of vies are now available, and even if didn't have the time the read everything, there's enough material to start making up my mind (i said 'start')
Kathy Sierra is a well [...]

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I don't know who is acquainted about IPRED2, i'm not, but i'm worried about it and i'm trying to make up my mind and get informed.
The Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive 2 (IPRED2) is the second version of the directive that some lobbyist would like to bring in the European legal environment regarding the enforcement [...]

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