the dao of flow

Today the 24 Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) the annually hacker meeting organized by the Chaos Computer Club started in Berlin. Here you can find lots of inspiring talks, cool workshops and interesting people. Hacking (in the broadest sense), making, privacy and politic issues and many other topics are covered. The theme”Volldampf voraus” (German for “full [...]

The Google Blog informs us that the Google Privacy Channel has started offering advice how to enhance privacy when using Google products. Well, nice try but I hope Nat Torkington is right and we can see soon the Google Privacy Dashboard … where consumers can view all the information that Google has about them, request [...]

DER SPIEGEL (“the mirror” in German), Europe’s biggest magazine, will open its archive beginning of 2008. As announced the publisher’s subsidiary company SPIEGELnet and the Wissen Media Group will set up SPIEGEL Wissen. There the SPIEGEL articles starting from 1947 will be combined with content from Wikipedia and the Bertelsmann-Lexika. Only the current issue needs [...]

Just saw that the proposal for the Open Practises E-science Network (OPEN) is online at Nature Precedings. Nice job, guys!

As Lawrence Lessig reports Wikipedia has made a resolution to update it’s license and make it compatible with a Creative Commons license: It is hereby resolved that: The Foundation requests that the GNU Free Documentation License be modified in the fashion proposed by the FSF to allow migration by mass collaborative projects to the Creative [...]

Since yesterday the OpenCON 2007 – a yearly conference only dedicated to OpenBSD – is taking place in Venice. Around 130 developers and users having a good time here and are socializing (as usually) very well. There were some very helpful tutorials yesterday and now the we have a packed schedule of talks. We expect [...]