Categories
Semantics Specs

Opinion: Australian Censorship Bill Could Impact P2P

Recovered from Wayback Machine. Australia’s been in the news before about Net censorship legislation, but the South Australian Parliament may have gone a little extreme even for this Net-conservative country. A bill introduced in November would make it illegal for content providers to post material that is considered “objectionable viewing material” for children. What’s objectionable […]

Categories
Technology

Australian Censorship bill could impact on P2P

Originally published at O’Reilly Australia’s been in the news before about Net censorship legislation, but the South Australian Parliament may have gone a little extreme even for this Net-conservative country. A bill introduced in November would make it illegal for content providers to post material that is considered “objectionable viewing material” for children. What’s objectionable […]

Categories
Technology

Speaking at the P2P Conference

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In some ways, what we described was the origins of a pseudo-blockchain functionality. But Michael went back to Sydney, and I went on to other things. I’ll be speaking at the first P2P conference, presented by O’Reilly and being held in San Francisco in February. I’m co-speaking with Michael Hitz, […]

Categories
RDF

More on RDF Patent dispute

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Busy blog day today. It’s ironic, but I was working on the RDF book for O’Reilly when I caught Dave Winer’s post that O’Reilly received one of the RDF patent notifications. Read more at Dale Dougherty’s weblog. This news does not surprise me. Sigh. -earlier- News.com has a brief article about the RDF patent issue […]

Categories
Specs Technology

Browser, Browser Not

Originally published at O’Reilly Recently, O’Reilly published a set of articles (Netscape Navigator 6.0 to Fail Standards Compliance, An Update, and Netscape 6.0 Released), written by the popular author David Flanagan, about the release of Netscape 6.0, Netscape’s newest entry in the browser marketplace. David presented several valid concerns about bugs still present in the release of Netscape […]