Tuesday, July 13, 2004

LWN: Oracle patents content management systems. [Scripting News] 10:51:47 PM      Google It!.

Progeny Releases Beta 1 of Progeny Debian [Slashdot] his is intended to be a showcase of our Componentized Linux project for building customized Linux distributions, 10:41:25 PM      Google It!.

PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too [Slashdot] 10:40:08 PM      Google It!.

Google Buys an Online Photo Manager. Google bought Picasa Inc., a company that makes technology to help consumers organize and display photos online. [The New York Times > Technology] 10:27:46 PM      Google It!.

Major gift supports OA at Harvard. Harvard has received a $5 million gift to support its Open Collections Program, whose mission is to digitize and provide open access to material from the Harvard libraries. The donors are Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, both historians and both Harvard alums. Quoting Harvard president Lawrence Summers: "Intellectually curious people from every corner of the globe will have free access to such information, for the benefit of their studies, their interests, and their work." For more details, see the press release. [Open Access News] 10:00:00 AM      Google It!.

Geolocation: Don't Fence Web In. As geolocation -- technology that can track the location of computers surfing the Internet -- improves, corporations and governments are increasingly able to limit what people can view on the Web. [Wired News] 9:27:38 AM      Google It!.

Fair use and academic publishing. The Chronicle of Higher Education will host an online colloquy on Fair Use and Academic Publishing tomorrow, July 14, at 1:00 pm Eastern time. The guest expert will be Wendy Seltzer, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Seltzer will answer questions about fair use from members of the public. Participants can wait until tomorrow at 1:00 or submit their questions in advance. Afterwards the Chronicle will post an OA transcript of the colloquy. [Open Access News] 9:19:30 AM      Google It!.

File-Sharing Thrives as Net Users Find New Outlets. LONDON (Reuters) - Internet users download twice as many films, games and music as they did a year ago, despite a big crackdown on the activity, according to a study on Tuesday. [Reuters: Technology] 9:16:29 AM      Google It!.

Mozilla Developers Respond to Malware [Slashdot] 9:15:07 AM      Google It!.