Unitarian minister and blogger Andrew Brown today posted a scanned PDF of the only in-depth biography of Universalist pioneer George de Benneville. I feel a bit bad because I’ve owned a copy for years — he paid dearly for his — and I never put it up.
He alludes to the problem of copyright — it [...]
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“Life of de Benneville” for download
World’s Fair Use Day
The concept of fair use of copyrighted intellectual property is probably under more strain now than ever before. The long term effects on a free, creative people are not known, but I can’t think it’ll be anything good.
Public Knowledge is producing World’s Fair Use Day tomorrow, January 12, to draw attention to this issue. A [...]
Without free software, there would have been no Web
And open — that is, non-proprietary — standards, too. No secret blend of herbs and spices here. We’d certainly no Web as we know it. Not even close.
Today is the sixteenth anniversary of the deed of software by CERN — “the supercollider people” — for the software that makes the Web work.
Here’s the “birth certificate“.
The [...]
Bible for Android?
No, I’m not preparing for a robotic mission. But after years of rejecting having a cell phone, I gave in — and did so with an Android phone. (After reading how a significant plurality of homeless persons have a cell phone, and how it is a leading entry-point for Internet technologies for persons in developing [...]
More on which Creative Commons license
ChurchCrunch’s writer was thinking about what Creative Commons license to use with the site’s content. The choice? Same as this blog and The Liberal Christian, the new magazine I publish. (ChurchCrunch and Boy in the Bands uses the United States version; The Liberal Christian uses the unported version.)
The license: by-nc-sa 3.0 (U.S. version)
You might choose [...]
Priestley the open-sourcer
Word of a Sunday book review in the New York Times (January 23) floated around the office a few days ago. I was sure it would hit the Unitarian Universalist blogosphere, but didn’t.
The book? The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America by Steven Johnson. Its subject? Joseph [...]
Watching GA from a Linux machine (and open formats)
(Please read to the end; I have something to ask you.)
UU Mom was looking to watch tonight’s opening session of the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly (UUA GA) online, but it is only available in a proprietary Windows format. She noted:
It would be nice if they’d use an Open Source program. We missed part of [...]
OpenOffice.org training
Michelle Murrain (Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology) presented an OpenOffice.org — the free and open source productivity suite — training (or “untraining”) for Google as a part of their TechTalk series, and you can watch it here.
Details at NOSI.
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Download Firefox 3, break record
The Mozilla Foundation is try to break a 24-hour software download world record — or rather, establish a mark — with its release of the newest version of its browser: Firefox 3. Having used it a while, I really like it.
Ubuntu Linux users have been getting updates of the preliminary versions (release candidates) and [...]
Open media formats for Unitarian Universalists
Are there any Unitarian Universalists — or keen open codec advocates who read this blog — who use Ogg Vorbis (audio) or Ogg Theora (video) to play, share, stream or store media? These are free and open-source media formats.
I may have a project.
In related news, I bought a refurb digital audio player (“MP3 player”) that [...]
