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Sita Sings the Blues to appear at Ebertfest

Jimmy Wales — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:54:32 +0000

Jimmy Wales — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:13:56 +0000

Jimmy Wales — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:19:11 +0000

Wikipedia is voting about upgrading the license from GFDL, a fine license, to CC BY-SA, a more modern and easier to understand license.

Jimmy Wales — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:59:25 +0000

Arstechnica has the story.

Jimmy Wales — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:26:00 +0000

Jimmy Wales — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:26:50 +0000

Advertising revenue has collapsed for newspapers (partly due to the economy, partly due to longer-term trends), so what happens next? Two views:

Jimmy Wales — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:09:06 +0000

Here is a review and some random commentary about Jamie Boyle’s book The Public Domain:

Is Google committing theft – or ushering in a bright new age?

It’s a rather silly editorial, but it does give a decent basic description of Prof. Boyle’s book.

Jimmy Wales — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:58:04 +0000

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