I was introducing C. to a set of QuestionCopyright friends and acquaintances, and they were joking about indoctrinating her, and she was curious to hear what free culture is all about. So she wondered why …
So the next time I have a colleague who was born in 1990, I will wish to nickname them "Flood". This of course means that I should be nicknaming every colleague with an album title …
In this special edition of GNOME Journal, GNOME HISPANO's Juanjo Marin arranged for us to get five great stories in both English and Spanish. You can read these now at http://gnomejournal.org: José María Casanova and …
A few weeks ago, I was catching up with a friend, and he remarked that one reason he likes open source software is that it doesn't have marketing. At this point I said, I realize …
Allan and I discussed some near-term priorities today in #marketing, so I'll document them here (and on the marketing list). Allan this week is concentrating on release notes. He feels he has a good handle …
Until the end of March, US residents can watch 1980s high school sitcom Square Pegs on Hulu. There was only one season, so you could, on either a steady, strenuous, or grueling pace, finish the …
One of my gigs is grant research and proposal writing for QuestionCopyright.org. I had never researched grants or written grant proposals before this job. At least one friend of mine said that the idea of …
I'm back at Common Spaces as a flexspace member. Couches, desks, pretty good internet, a conference room and an old-school phonebooth, and a Mirabai some of the time. Most excitingly, I just discovered that the …
This year, Columbia WICS let me come to another Yahoo! Labs research presentation/lunch (last year's notes). Thanks for the invite, Elizabeth Kierstead. My writeup begins here! Ken Schmidt of Academic Relations started off by talking …
Now that my new bosses have told the world: yes, I'm also now consulting for the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that supports Wikipedia and other free knowledge initiatives. To grossly simplify, I'm coordinating software development …
