Douwe Osinga's Blog: June 2005

Thursday, June 30, 2005

The key to commercial filesharing

Grokster lost and the Big Guys won. What happens next is anybody's guess, but one thing that seems possible, is that the movie & re...

Sunday, June 26, 2005

Blogging on Cellphones

A couple of days ago I had a little time to kill and I had my cell phone with me. So I thought I'd give blogging a retry. Now I didn'...

Saturday, June 25, 2005

Project Resurection

Two projects belonging to the group of all time favorites among visitors had been off line for ages. I just patched them and they seem to wo...

Sunday, June 19, 2005

More Albania impressions

I've been back from Albania for about a week and still haven't gotten around blogging about it in some more detail. I think I'm ...

Saturday, June 18, 2005

World66 and the press

Of course it is mostly due to the success of the Wikipedia , but Open Content is hot. World66 , the Open Content Travel guide I helped found...

Thursday, June 16, 2005

Using the other nerve cells too

It is often said that we're only using 10% of our brain or so. Might be true. But of course in general we're only using 10% of our b...

Monday, June 13, 2005

Albanian Espresso

The espresso in Albania is of surprisingly high quality. It is one of the good things about being an ex-Italian colony. You see things like ...

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Time travel

So we're back. It was a nice trip. Albania looks better in real life than on paper, more about that later. Apart from the destination, i...

Wednesday, June 1, 2005

Switzerland is expensive

Switzerland is expensive. Not a very original title, of course. But if you live here and you weren't born here, from time to time you ha...