Why We Need To Abolish Software Patents"Patents make a lot of sense in many industries; [...] But in software these are just nuclear weapons in an arms race. They don’t foster innovation, they inhibit it. That’s because things change rapidly in this industry. Speed and technological obsolescence are the only protections that matter. Fledgling startups [...]

What I Read: Jay Rosen | The Atlantic Wire"How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? Do they have some secret? Perhaps. We are asking various friends and colleagues who seem well-informed to describe their media diets. This is from an interview with Jay Rosen, press critic, [...]

WikiLeaks will fund itself via Flattr, Pirate Bay founder’s startup"WikiLeaks, the Sweden-based organisation that publishes anonymous leaks of secret material (most recently 90,000 documents about the War in Afghanistan) has until now, relied on donations to fund its activities. That’s lead to outages when funds became scarce, for whatever reason. But today WikiLeaks is unleashing [...]

Welcome to Open Library! (Open Library)"Ever wanted to play librarian? It's OK. We all do." Open Library's killer pitch. The target is: "One web page for every book." (libraries opensource crowdsourcing books ) About | longform.org"We post articles, past and present, that we think are too long and too interesting to be read on a [...]