Two weeks ago it was once again time for the Society of Computers and Law’s Annual Lecture. I made it along to my first of these events two years ago. Well, to the SCL Scotland’s Annual Lecture to be precise, and this was given by none other than Free Software legal expert and key [...]
Tuesday evening I attended a lecture at the RSA entitled The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind, where Professor James Boyle talked about the subject of his recent book. I won’t go into too much detail here since you can download the entire book in PDF form via the last link, else [...]
And so last weekend marked the point at which I finally gave in and joined the world of Facebook. I can’t say exactly why it took me so long to get on board, but am pretty sure that a major contributing factor was a case of repetitive profile creation lethargy (RPCL). A condition that likely [...]
At work with your computer do you sit on a green side (‘inside’) or red side (‘outside’) network? Do you enjoy the assumed security afforded by a network wall erected to keep the virtual beasties out, or do you live free and reap the benefits associated with untethered access to the online world? Do you [...]
As a child and in the what now seems like dim and distant days before the common availability of the internet, I would spend quite a lot of time in the local library going through the microfiche catalogue and deciding what books to order next from the British Library. On completing a small request form [...]