Social Networking Vs Porn
Bill Trancer from internet tracking company Hitwise has been focusing research on social networking. He has information on more than 10 million web users, and has …
Brisbane's Best Blog
Blogging is simply the act of informal writing as a regular practice on Brisbanes best blog. Journals take many forms and serve different purposes, some creative some personal. Writers keep journals as a place to record thoughts, practice their craft, and catalogue ideas as they occur to them.
Lenovo ditches Linux
I was reading desktoplinux.com and found this interesting article: Lenovo, which years ago purchased IBMs personal computer business, appears to have quietly stopped offering Linux as …
Cyberpsychology
Nottingham Trent University have introduced a Cyberpsychology masters degree, the first of its kind in the UK. The course is open to postgraduates and will look …
OpenOffice.org 3.0
Exciting stuff, OpenOffice.org 3.0 release candidate 1 is available to download from the website. It is not recommended for production deployment at this stage but it …
Quebec government sued for buying Microsoft software
FACIL, a non-profit association which promotes the collective appropriation of Free Software, has filed a motion before the Quebec Superior Court contesting the purchasing methods of …
Happy Birthday to GNU
Happy birthday GNU 🙂 Thank you to all the GNU hackers that write free software, thank you for giving me so much freedom when I use …
Linux netbook in demand
I recently wrote about Elonex laptops preloaded with Linux being made available at the Carphone Warehouse. They are in such high demand that thieves stole a …
Introducing the Webbook
I was taking a look at The Open Sourcerer website and was pleased to read that The Open Learning Centre has been working with a household …
Yo Frankie! the Open Game
You may remember project Orange’s open movie “Elephants Dream” and project Peach’s open movie “Big Buck Bunny“, they’ve continued with a new open project Apricot. This …
UK government blunder
The UK government have been running their new website on WordPress, they seem very keen on being viewed as supporters of open source software. However it …