Archive for February, 2007

Blackboard Error Message

Monday, February 12th, 2007 February 12, 2007Fred

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A wonderful error message greated me today in my “Personal Information” section on BlackBoard: Oracle does not fully support CLOB manipulation (inserting or updating) using a PreparedStatement. Instead you must manipulate the CLOB through the […]

Will EMI be the first to fall?

Friday, February 9th, 2007 February 9, 2007Fred

Steven P. Job’s heart to heart about DRM certainly drew the ire of some in the recording industry;  but perhaps it is a bit premature to assume all of the big 4 would really react in concert to calls for the end of copy protection. There are now rumors that EMI is considering selling its […]

Steve Jobs: Don’t Blame Apple for DRM, Blame The Big 4

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 February 6, 2007Fred

In what is as close to a blog post as you’re going to get from Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO outlines what will certainly become the company’s official stance on DRM: “Don’t blame us, blame the music industry.” The letter is a worthwhile read, but I’ve excerpted some of the juiciest bits below:
However, a key provision […]

Blackboard Pledges Not To Sue Open Source Alternatives

Friday, February 2nd, 2007 February 2, 2007Tom

In a press release dated February 1st, 2007, Blackboard has announced what they are calling a “Patent Pledge” stating that they will “never assert its issued or pending course management system software patents against open source software or home-grown course management systems”, that the pledge “is legally binding, irrevocable and worldwide in scope”, and that […]

The Open Access Movement Must Be Doing Something Right…

Friday, February 2nd, 2007 Fred

From the Washington Post:
…Dezenhall told the association’s professional and scholarly publishing division, he could help — in part by simplifying the industry’s message to a few key phrases that even a busy senator could grasp.
Phrases like: “Public access equals government censorship,” and “government [is] seeking to nationalize science and be a publisher.”
The publishers liked […]

Meeting Tuesday February 6th @ 8pm

Friday, February 2nd, 2007 Fred

We’ll be having a general meeting Tuesday at 8pm. It’s our second meeting of the semester so please come if you’re interested in participating in Free Culture @ NYU; we’re always looking for new faces, so please don’t feel shy if you’ve never attended.  This week we’ll be talking about One Laptop Per Child (which […]

Jimmy Wales & Cory Doctorow Media Online @ NowPublic.com

Friday, February 2nd, 2007 Fred

For any of you Free Culture @ NYU fans who missed the last two talks we sponsored: don’t despair, there is hope. First you should sign up for our e-mail list so you don’t miss any future presentations, and then you should watch the media that has been diligently recorded for us by the kind […]


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