In case any readers would like to give Australia's Minister for web censorship their views on the subject, a link to his blog appears here. Note that Conroy intends to censor other matters than kiddie porn, but refuses to say what they are.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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Urgent Note: internet censorship
RMS: « Australians: sign this petition against internet censorship in Australia. »
lozz
3 years 24 weeks 6 hours 28 min ago
Brit censorship disaster
The British web censorship initiative has backfired badly when they tried to censor Wikipedia.
http://www.watoday.com.au/articles/2008/12/08/1228584723764.html
This three decade-old album cover probably only got a few hits a year, but these futile censorship efforts will have stimulated a great deal of interest world-wide. The album is available from British Amazon(complete with cover-shot) so sales should increase accordingly.
Glyn Moody's take;
http://computerworlduk.com/TOOLBOX/OPEN-SOURCE/BLOGS/index.cfm?entryid=1...
I remember a Led Zeppelin album cover, from the same era, featured pictures of(gasp!), naked babies!
Maybe this album will also gain much welcome promotion from the Brit web-nannies.