“What we really need from government is an investigation of the long-term effects of OSS on our indigenous software industry.”-ITNOWextra -member view- September 2005
Before you go jetting off to Vancouver’s OSCMS conference, just take a moment to reflect on all the trouble that open source causes.
You may decide it would be better to get together with some friends and destroy a few textile machines!
Via: Simon Phipps’s The Mink Dimension
–pmh
The OSCMS Summit (aka the Open Source Content Management Systems and Blogging Tools Summit) is taking place in Vancouver on February 7th. – 9th., 2006.
From my scanning of their site it seems very Drupal-oriented; that is, there doesn’t appear to be as wide a range of open source participants as at some other conferences, but it’s always good to see people getting together.
–pmh
Ok! Let’s get back to something that’s vaguely related to Content, shall we?…
The presentation by Lawrence Lessig mentioned in the update to my Right to Index/Search post is provided through a relatively new video service, YouTube.
YouTube is like Flickr with video… tag, blog, and link to your multimedia.
Which raises the question: why isn’t YouTube Flickr? That is, what is it about multimedia that Flickr didn’t get and so missed this market? Did becoming a Yahoo! company remove the creative urge?
–pmh