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How important are entrepreneurs to the society? Who is creating net jobs? How to support entrepreneurs?
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
What a story in such a short film
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Leave Me from Daros Films on Vimeo. (via vowe.net)
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
A refreshing and fashionable view on intellectual non-property
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Johanna Blakely: Lessons from fashion's free culture:
I initially read the title as "lessons from fashion-free cultures" :-) Am I cross-reading or cross-eyed...
Loved her presentation even more when I realised it was about "free" vs "protected". You see, most of the protected business-relevant stuff is not owned by the creators, but by quite uncreative institutions. A media corporation is not creative, the artist is, but who owns the rights? The corporation which owns a patent is not creative. The inventor, engineer or researcher are. And who owns most patents? So whose interest is protected? Who is most benefiting from patents?
And most importantly, what are copyright and patents used for? Do they create more wealth for societies or do they prevent the usability for progress? If they exist to protect the holder, isn't that right far to passive and defensive? Isn't progress is about risk and going forward rather than building defenses and walls?
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Hans Rosling at Worldbank about DbHd: Database Hugging disorder
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When googling "healthy heterosexual sex video bubbles", the first result links to a presentation of the Mike Jagger of statistics - Hans Rosling. The public health professor who through a funny and mind-blowing presentation as a TEDster became a "TED star". Or did Rosling help TED become so popular? At TED everybody has less than 20 minutes presentation time, a time during which Rosling is barely warming up. The worldbank gave the stat man nearly an hour for his stat act on open data and the bank's new data policy. Enjoy.
Domain spam or scam? Thanks for the hint BTW
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Some spam gets always through, and for the first time ever, I may have to thank a spammer. Initially I was outraged, because I thought I am being bullied by some domain grabber scammer. But no, a quick whois check indeed revealed that uptweets.com was still available.
Though we at tickerTXT / cidentigo have always been close in launching some service using that name, we so far don't use uptweet.com yet. But uptweets.com sounds like a nice sibling anyway. So I registered uptweets.com with gandi.net, my usual domain service provider with a great web interface for DNS settings and which I have been using for years. That is my kind of response to the protectively spamming Mr Weinstein: thanks but no thanks to your unsolicited deliberately misguiding offer using "reserved" where many people read and understand "registered".
When googling that ethically challenged service, I found this amusing post on a japanese yahoo page. Hint: read the domain name in what looks like a copy of the spam scam mail to the one I received :-)
I intentionally deleted the "p" from https in the URLs of the following email, so that people don't accidently click on some link that I don't trust.
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