Why the Super Bowl Matters, Especially to Sociologists Ethnography.com by Marianne Paiva I think I’ve mentioned before, but I really don’t understand the lure of watching sports on TV. Or in person. Or from a skybox in a stadium with 50,000 other people. Generally, I don’t understand watching sports. So when I moved to … Read more
Anti-Islam march in German city BBC News | Europe | World Edition A controversial march against “Islamisation of the West”, and a big counter-demonstration, are held in the German city of Dresden. Germany and the eurozone: The view from Paris Centre for European Reform On recent visits to Berlin, I have been surprised at how negative people … Read more
Help protect the public commons from secret deals. All creativity and knowledge owes something to what came before — every creator builds on the ideas that came before them. Copyright is at the center of the public commons — it’s a limited right that is given to creators, but it also has a term limit to ensure … Read more
Honouring computing?s 1843 visionary, Lady Ada Lovelace from The Official Google Blog by A Googler Last year, a group of us were lucky enough to visit the U.K. Prime Minister?s residence at 10 Downing Street, as part of the Silicon Valley Comes to the U.K. initiative. While there, we asked about some of the paintings … Read more
Samsung ordered to pay $1,049,343,540 in Apple patent lawsuit defeat from The Next Web by Drew Olanoff via Apple wins software and design patent judgements against most Samsung devices in trial over iPhone and iPad from The Next Web by Matthew Panzarino Apple scores huge win over Samsung in patent case from Hurriyet Daily … Read more
A Primer on Creative Commons – The Web’s Most Prominent Content Licensing System from Freelance Writing Jobs by Jonathan Bailey Unless you haven?t been paying attention, you?ve probably at least heard of Creative Commons or seen its licenses around on various sites. However, there?s a great deal of misunderstanding regarding what Creative Commons Licenses actually … Read more