I’m a new ASF Member!
Apache: It seems I’ve been elected as a member of the Apache Software Foundation! That’s a nice surprise ;)
Tags: apache, foundation, member, software, surprise
Where I’d gotten to
Meta: You might have noticed things being a bit quite around here recently. Unfortunately, it wasn’t for good reasons.
A close family member in Ireland died suddenly on Good Friday. Once we found out, being in Death Valley (of all places) that weekend, we made a mad dash back home for the removal, funeral, and so on. The past two weeks have been not so much fun, all in all.
I’m torn between eulogising here, and keeping it offline. All in all, I think it’d be better to not use this weblog for that; I don’t think it’d be appropriate. But he’ll be greatly missed.
Tags: bit, dash, family, friday, fun, good, home, member, meta, removal, weekend
Sharing With Social Networks
Social: Next-Generation File Sharing with Social Networks. One thing — the central server is not actually required, as WASTE showed. Otherwise good stuff…
I have a feeling that whatever clients are built to implement social-network-based sharing will need a way to deal with a user being a member of multiple indepedent networks, where Network A has a policy that would not permit Network B’s users to connect, but User X is a member of both.
Tags: file, generation, member, network, networks, next, server, social, thing, user
EU DMCA fails - for now
Yahoo!: Deadline Passes for European Digital Copyright Law. ‘A deadline for adopting a new EU law on copyright protection has passed with just two member countries signing up, dealing a blow to media and software companies beset by unauthorized duplication of their works across the Internet.’ The two countries are Greece and Denmark, which is odd, considering I thought Ireland had do so too.
Other actors in the private sector, such as Internet service providers, have weighed in heavily on the issue, opposing laws that could ultimately hurt consumer rights.
Yay ISPs!
Tags: copyright, deadline, digital, european, internet, law, member, passes, protection, yahoo
