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O’Reilly P2P Presentation Proposal

Title: Smoke: An Infrastructure supporting Distributed Peer Services Length: 60 minutes Focus of Talk: Technical/Tutorial Subject Matter: Infrastructure/Distributed Computation Abstract The sale of large scale control systems — such as those used with mass transit systems or to control multi-national pipelines — often requires a marketing and engineering effort that demands the input of several different people, many of […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]