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Doc Searls pointed me to a thought-provoking post by Tristan Louis called Where Virtual and Physical meet. Amongst other things, Tristan makes the point that as genres like SecondLife evolve with their own community standards, the question of how these standards operate in a court of law is moot.
The question per se is not new. [...]

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I received a comment from 2036AD about my last post, and it was good constructive feedback. I guess I fell into my own trap, and rather than be Thinker or Linker, I wandered into Stinker territory.
The rules for creating value when linking appear simple:

1. Tell people enough about what you are linking to, enough to [...]

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LifeHacker  pointed me towards  this while I was travelling. Interesting concept, once it works on multiple platforms.
Now if someone somewhere could come up with the equivalent for analysing the end-user agreements offered by every ISP, cableco or telco, in the run-up to WalledGardenia, we could all benefit.

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That’s a quote from a wonderful interview of Pierre Omidyar in Release 1.0, March 2006.
In the article, he says that the challenge is to create the right environment where you can “unleash the players and be confident that you will like the results”. In his view, such an environment has three aspects:

open access to all
open [...]

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…. There’s something happening here.
What it is ain’t exactly clear.
There’s a man with a gun over there,
Telling me I got to beware.
I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound?
Everybody look what’s going down
Stephen Stills, For What It’s Worth 
We live in interesting times.
A couple of nonfiction writers (Baigent and Leigh) sue a writer [...]

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My posts are going to be somewhat more sporadic than usual for the next few weeks; I’m in India on holiday with my family.
Which gives me the chance to catch up on stuff I’ve been meaning to do.
Like listen to Sandi Thom. An amazing story. Stuff internet dreams are made of. Here are the highlights:

Travelling [...]

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