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How hard can it be?
Well for a corporation very hard. But fortunately my solution to this problem that seems to be vexing everyone lately doesn’t rely on a corporate sponsor, and places the future of web search in OUR hands.
My vision of search is that each website takes a small share of responsibility, indexing [...]

For some time I have documented the spread of Open Source Sorcery by starting a page in the KIAwiki just for that specifically.  This followed the spread of the Open Source movement in computing that believed in sharing the code that programs ran on to allow community feedback on parts of the code that needed [...]

(Note: This article was originally written for Key64 and published a while back.  However since they seem to be down at the moment I’ve decided to republish).
I was born in the UK in the year of 1974. The cold war was in full swing and I grew up with the threat of nuclear war hanging [...]

War.  So simple a word.  Three little letters.  And it conjures images in our heads of planes, bombs, nukes, soldiers, guns, battles, tanks, rockets, guerrillas, knights, swords, imperial legions and barbarian hordes stretching from the dawn of civilisation to the present.  We think of the suffering, the destruction, the loss of life, the wounded, the [...]

I’ve noticed some discussions on irreality.net about sharing culture, which usually revolved around justifications for music piracy and stuff.  Now I’ve got nothing against music piracy.  Many a band I own on vinyl and cd, and have attended concerts of, I first listened to on pirate tapes made for me by friends.  Sometimes I didn’t [...]

Just a quick post to say I’ve signed up an account with last.fm
I’m not sure about downloading their scrobbler thingy. Since I don’t really play music off my PC I don’t see the point, and having something monitor what I play and reporting it back to some website seems a bit intrusive on my [...]

Just published on Key64.net:
http://key64.net/article/1329-freedom-and-liberty-in-democracy-today

I have just finished reading my first ever on-line book from the Project Gutenburg library. Well, more like a pamphlet really, but inspiring none the less. It was Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff. I came across it searching on the title. I’d never actually heard of it, and although the [...]