Timeline of the Free Online Scholarship Movement

First draft, with links, of major events in the recent history of the freedom of online scholarship movement. More...

Patent Changes the Score for Net Music
It's hard to believe, but a U.S. court has recognized a claim by SightSound Technologies, a digital media company, to the effect that it owns the patent on downloading video and sound over the internet. Yep, that's right, SightSound "invented" the concept. More...

The Crime of Sharing
I think John Perry barlow sums up my feelings on a lot of what is happening with copyright quite nicely: "And just as sharing makes us civilized, it's sharing that makes civilization. It lets us build a great collective work from the exchange of stories, myths, songs, poems, facts, jokes, beliefs, scientific discoveries, elegant engineering hacks, and all of the other products of human thought and discourse. More...

Splash
The Portals for Online Objects in Learning (POOL) project announced today the availability of a beta version of its 'Splash' module for public download. The purpose of Splash is to allow educators and content developers to create desktop peer-to-peer based learning object repositories. More...

The Next Web
It's good to be reminded from time to time about where the web is really headed. This article focuses on Tim Berners-Lee as the architect of the (proposed) semantic web. The project is nothing nearly like the one-man show depicted in the article, but it's nonetheless clear that Berners-Lee has a vision and is working toward it. More...

Explor@

This has been around for a bit, but this site - Explor@ - was demonstrated. Explor@ is an open educational operating system for managing learning object repositories. More...