
From CNet news: Bush administration opposes RIAA-based copyright bill

Today is effectively your last chance to submit to the UK Intellectual Property Office's request for comments on EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy's proposal to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings.

An announcement is now up on the JISC site of the 12 projects that have been funded under the new JISC Curriculum Design programme.

I have just submitted a proposal to the Hewlett Foundation to develop an Open Learning network. This has involved working with Candace Thille at CMU and several people here at the OU including Grainne Conole, Andy Lane and Simon Buckingham Shum. Much of the drafting took place in a public wiki which was an interesting process.

Well the EU has not been slow about following up on Charlie McCreevy's promise to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings. From Europa:

Well the EU has not been slow about following up on Charlie McCreevy's promise to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings. From Europa:

by Trevor Acy
ZDNet News is reporting that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to accept companies to purchase any domain suffix they want.

This is what mediawiki should have done from the start...
One of the benefits of insignificance is that people rarely have reason to take shots at you. So when some fairly sharp criticisms were directed my way over my recent NMC Mashup Symposium mashup I really didn't know how best to respond...
The Summer of Code application process is underway. Along with some good folks at The Oregon State Open Source Labs, we have put together a proposal to share content between Moodle and Drupal.