BBC goes Creative Commons

April 20, 2009 Posted by

Well, looks like hell is perhaps warming up after all. According to http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/04/bbc-launches-program-under-creative-commons-license.ars BBC airs, releases program under Creative Commons license In its continuing efforts to experiment with new ways of handling its content, the BBC has started producing a monthly technology program that it will make available for download under a Creative Commons license. […]

The old yes/no game.

April 18, 2009 Posted by

Microsoft are up to their Extend, Embrace, Suffocate tricks yet again, with the announcement of 30,000 “vouchers” to retrain people recently made redundant.

Open Letter – Call for major websites to opt out of Phorm

April 17, 2009 Posted by

From http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/03/22/open-letter-call-for-major-websites-to-opt-out-of-phorm/ Open letter, sent to Chief Privacy Officers or equivalent at: (i) Microsoft (ii) Google / Youtube (iii) Facebook (iv) AOL / Bebo (v) Yahoo (vi) Amazon (vii) Ebay Dear Sir / Madam, We are writing this open letter to you to ask you if you will act to protect your users’ privacy. We […]