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Flock: First Look

Worth a look. The blogging client is especially nice.
Flock: First Look:

Flock is a new collaborative browser built on top of open source Firefox code. It integrates with del.icio.us, with blogging, with RSS management and with Flickr. It’s also very pretty.
I spent several hours yesterday exploring the new Flock beta release and mostly crashing it. Fortunately, [...] (…)

DRM Is Not a Contract (Donna Wentworth)

I was having a conversation with my boss a little while ago about whether and how DRM or ‘trusted computing’ platforms, can be considered to constitute a contract between user and manufacturer/vendor, and what the implications for ‘contract’ enforcement are. Of course, in Scots law, as long as there is (and this is from my [...] (…)

The Waking of the President

Something I’ve always wondered about, answered by Slate. Oh, and apologies for the monkey picture.
The Waking of the President:

Is there anybody who can wake this guy up?

News of the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd reached the White House at 2:30 Monday morning. According to spokesman Scott McClellan, the president wasn’t informed until he showed [...] (…)

How should govt’s weigh new copyright proposals?

More on the Royal Society’s IP Charter.
How should govt’s weigh new copyright proposals?:
Cory Doctorow:
Over the past year, I’ve been privileged to participate in the Royal Society for the Arts’ Adelphi Project, through which a distinguished drafting committee worked to create a charter of public rights in copyright, patent, trademark and related rights.

The Charter is intended [...] (…)

Royal Society Issues IP Charter

Worth watching, I think.
Royal Society Issues IP Charter:
An anonymous reader writes “The Economist and the Guardian both have stories about the release of the Adelphi Charter – an international blueprint for how intellectual property should be made – by Britain’s Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce.
The Economist says “The Adelphi [...] (…)