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Remembering Sir Howard Morrison who died in his sleep this week. My ex-mother-in-law maintained that he and John Rowles were relatives of the family. Fairly tenuous relationships but who was I to argue with a magnificent old kuia? — I have put together a quick and dirty page for tomorrow’s blackout – http://www.nixit.co.nz/blackout.htm - feel free to use, remix, whatever I’ve had a fiddle with the Maintenance Mode plugin (which is where I got the idea) and will see how that works. I’ve been following (rather sporadically) some of the information about copyright restructuring (aka reform) in New Zealand. Unfortunately, at the moment I feel that I’ve been rather too busy to be proactive and I have turned into a reactive person. Over the weekend I discovered that the National Library of New Zealand had been trawling the [...] New Zealand is a little closer towards having its own Creative Commons Licences. Keep an eye on the brand spanking new Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand website. As yet New Zealand does not have specific Creative Commons Licences so for those of us who choose to licence our work in this way we are using [...] According to the Wikipedia the RFCs (Request for Comments) “are a series of memoranda encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to Internet technologies”. Many of them are now obselete but there are a few which still have something to offer. One that is still important, despite not being updated since 1995, is RFC 1855. This [...] When it comes to music files, Bill Gates simply had this to say in summary; “People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.” Except, of course, if you live in New Zealand. The copyright/wrong bill is marching on towards becoming law. The trouble is that at the moment the mud is no less opaque than it was. Will we be able to legaly copy that brand new CD so that we can listen on that lovely new teacher laptop so thoughtfully subsidised by the Ministry of Education? Possibly. [...] Eight days since I last posted. I wish that I could say that I have been doing exciting, worthy things but sadly, no. it’s milestone and variation time here in ICT-PD-land and it’s all been about collating and compiling and putting it all together. This morning’s Sunday Star Times had a spend-up-before -Christmas glossy about some [...] The National Library (amongst others) has just released the Draft New Zealand Digital Content Strategy Document. “The draft New Zealand Digital Content Strategy is a sub-strategy of the Digital Strategy, and is the government’s five-year vision for unlocking New Zealand’s stock of content and providing all New Zealanders with seamless, easy access to the information that [...] From around the place: In A closed mind about an open world James Boyle looks at our response to knowledge networks. It is not that openness is always right. Rather, it is that we need a balance between open and closed, owned and free, and we are systematically likely to get the balance wrong. Partly this is [...] |
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