Book Reviews
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Monday, February 9, 2004
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GarageBand Kicks Out the Jams: "Apple's latest technology for the rest of us has inspired legions of amateurs to create music. That's good and bad." [Wired News]
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GarageBand and CC: "So Apple released this amazing new part of iLife, GarageBand. With it, you can make great music. (Well, I don't know about you, but I know Willem will make great music with it.) Anyway, one missing piece has been a simple way to know what content you're free to mix and remix within your GarageBand app. MacBand has now solved that problem. They've got a great archive of music by genre -- all marked with Creative Commons licenses." [Lessig Blog]
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SCO looks to widen Linux complaint against IBM: "The SCO Group aimed more legal fire at IBM this week, filing a motion to amend its Linux complaint against the company ahead of a hearing due to take place Friday." [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Do cellular automata explain life, universe, and ...? -- Comment()
Wolfram's New Kind of Science Now Online: "When Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica fame self-published A New Kind of Science in 2002, he raised the suspicions of many in scientific communities that he was taking advantage of a lot of other people's work for his sole financial gain and that he was going against the open nature of academia by using restrictive copyright. Yesterday, Wolfram and company released the entire contents of NKS for free on the Web (short registration required)." Nice! I wrote a review of NKS when it appeared. (The review is available in Finnish.) I was involved with cellular automata in some years ago, and this topic still interests me. Wolfram's book got mixed reviews, to say the least, and has not had such impact as Wolfram perhaps was expecting.
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Recent papers from First Monday: "A selection of recent interesting papers from First Monday, a online peer-reviewed journal. Subjects include Wikipedia, grassroots activities in a connected world, economy of web links, storytelling among youth on the Internet." [Hypergene MediaBlog]
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