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No Google Reader? No Problem!

Here’s something funny: Many people complain about Google shutting down Google Reader, and frankly I also happen to use it myself. True enough, I tend to use it less and less with social networks but sometimes I do use news reader. The real issue that nobody really picked up is …

On keeping a name relevant

“Moved by Freedom – Powered by Standards”. This blog has been going on under that title for quite some time; since September 2007 exactly. I ran an older blog without the same name and title. These days, I’m still in the ODF development and promotion in various capacities, but I …

Hommage to Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa, an immense poet from Portugal has written texts and poems I deeply enjoy reading. I thought I would be paying a small hommage today. In his poem “O Bandarra” which is part of the famous suite “Mensagem” (Messages) he writes about a Portuguese national figure, Bandarra. But oddly …

Paris – Berlin timelapse

Several videos I really like about Paris, where I live, and Berlin,Germany’s capital and home of the Document Foundation. Enjoy! berlin hyper-lapse from b-zOOmi on Vimeo. Paris In Motion (Part I) from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo. Paris In Motion (Part II) from Mayeul Akpovi on Vimeo.

What Europe Needs is Democracy: Striking at the Root of Europe’s Crisis

This article has first been published on the Rootstrikers’s web site; my thanks go to the Rootstrikers team and Lawrence Lessig for that. I hope it will be the beginning of something exciting and a quite different kind of a “Transatlantic Cooperation”. To know more about the Rootstrikers’ Movement and …

Links for the end of May

Fascinating article about the follow-up of the Google-Oracle lawsuit; of course, it’s worth pointing out that despite all the FUD, the “patent case” itself is over. In a different style and on a different topic, yet still belonging to the FOSS/Legal discussion, here are Richard Fontana’s latest presentation slides, specifically …

Video picks – April 2012

A few video picks gathered around the Nets… Enjoy the newborn Spring and happy Easter everyone. Congi – Somnium (Triangle/Circle/Square) from Paulo R on Vimeo.   POP LE CHEVAL from Kristof Brandl on Vimeo.   Madeon – Pop Culture (live mashup) from Harde Baas Paard Productions on Vimeo.   She …

Links for a 29th of February

Today is a day that’s obviously quite unique in our calendar; the next 29th of February will be in 4 years from now; but a Wednesday, 29th of February will only happpen in 40 years from now. Therefore this blog should be celebrating with “something completely different” to quote Sir …

What Google+ is missing

When Google + was announced I was very much excited at the prospect of using a more open social network that would also bring something different and refreshing to everyone. I do not really like Facebook. It’s not just their privacy policies, or the never stressed enough notion that if …

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