Interesting gig alert: OpenITP is looking for a researcher to examine and report on circumvention technology usage in China (the
Continue readingYear: 2012
Is That App Open Source?
A modest proposal: Give mobile device users the option to see which apps are open source, when browsing in app
Continue readingWill someone sell me a mount point, please?
Dear Lazyweb, I want to buy some online data storage. I don’t want to have to learn any new APIs
Continue readingHighlight of OSCON: Release of “Team Geek”!
Another highlight of OSCON: The release (w00t!) of Ben and Fitz‘s new book, Team Geek: A Software Developer’s Guide to
Continue readingAn Unintentional Reminder of What Journalism Is About.
I got hoaxed :-).
Continue readingCongratulate Bradley Kuhn by joining our mini-campaign for the Software Freedom Conservancy!
Update 2012-08-02: Thanks Brian Fitzpatrick, Jim Blandy, Jen Mankoff, Roland McGrath, Justin Erenkrantz, and Noah Friedman for congratulating Bradley by
Continue readingOSCON 2012 Interview with Mac Slocum of O’Reilly Media.
Mac Slocum of O’Reilly Media interviewed me last week at OSCON 2012 about open source software in the U.S. government — I
Continue readingCalculating the social derivative of follower numbers.
Identica, Twitter, and similar services tell you how many people are “following” you. Of course, it just means “are subscribed
Continue readingWhich of these two apps is not like the other? Answer: Just open source them. Please.
It’s happening, right on schedule: First the Stop-and-Frisk Watch app was released, to help citizens monitor the New York City
Continue readingCircumvention Tech in NYC, July 9-12 — Get Your Hack On.
Circumvention Tech: (noun) Technology, including software tools, designed to help people circumvent censorship and surveillance by state and non-state actors. Yo,
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