After a year of careful planning, and a fair bit of last minute scrambling around, Wikiotics is now a recognized charity in the United States. This is generally the point where new charaties shift into fundraising mode and ask for your support in the form of a check. I'm not going to do that. If [...]
Since the beginning of this Freedom Box series back in March, I’ve talked a lot about infrastructure and very little about what the interface is actually going to look like. I saved this portion for last because Interfaces can be very complicated and hard to get right but also because this is one of the [...]
I'm proud to announce that we now have a simple interface for editing and translating lessons on wikiotics.org! This is some great work by Jim that lets us get on with the fun part, making and playing with lessons. If you have a minute, take a look at our example lesson (in English) and play [...]
For anyone who has wondered whether patents actually help the economy, take a look at Facebook’s recent $40 million dollar purchase of 18 patents on social networking. Let’s take a look at this situation for a moment. To start with, we should remember that Friendster was sold just last year for $37 million dollars, three [...]
This post began as a reply to John Degen’s blog post about the Book Liberator. In particular I want to respond to the idea that photographing books is somehow an attempt to steal control of a book’s soul from it’s author, that doing so is a violation of human rights as set forth in the [...]