OpenLife

(from right to left: Tuula Vainonkulma-Paananen, Ficora (.fi); Hilde Thunem, Norid (.no); Per Kølle, DK Hostmaster (.dk) and Danny Aerts, vd .SE)

While we in Denmark are eagerly awaiting NITA’s final decision on who will administer the .dk ccTLD over the next 6 years - DIFO or dotDK (DK-Hostmaster or Afilias), I participated in a panel in InternetDagarna08 where the four nordic countries presented their current ccTLD set-up.

Here are my slides:

http://www.slideshare.net/vonhaller/presentation-difo-dkh-21-10-2008-presentation/

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This - IP Colloquium - looks to be a podcast worthwhile subscribing to, even some of the episode may seem to be a little too much centered on Americal law to be interesting for me.

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The podcast with Chris Anderson on Free - which is part of the really excellent Econtalk podcast series - might not give you a lot of answers but serves brilliantly to highlight the concept of Free - as was the focus of this year’s Reboot 10 - and its cousins Free lunches and Free beer. Highly recommended!

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econtalk, free, freebeer, freelunch, chrisanderson, reboot, reboot10

Check out Videolectures.net. It has a wealth of videos with speeches, lectures and presentation on lots of interesting topics. Refreshingly, there is a lot of European stuff and the service is thus not so america-centric as most similar services. And all content is released under a creative commons licens.

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7 områder til computer zen from min ven Lars Pind on Vimeo.

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Rettighedsportalen, der lige er blevet lanceret, er et velkomment bidrag til den vigtige debat om immaterielle rettigheder i et moderne samfund, hvor al information er digitaliseret og muligt tilgængeligt online.

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I have start reading Janet Hope’s book Biobazaar that basically asks if the open source approach can do for biotechnology what it has done for information technology. So far it is an excellent read!

The book has introduced me to the idea of the Tragedy of the Anticommons as opposed to the more traditional theory of the Tragedy of the Commons.

I am looking forward to thinking about during the next couple of weeks to what extent the theory of the anticommons is plausible and if so whether it can be applied the information technology setting. And as usual there is already a lot of good stuff available on the topic freely accesible at the net (e.g. The Anticommons Problem, theory and practice).

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På denne side

http://itst.media.netamia.net/itak08/video.php

findes alle indlæg på årets IT-arkitekturkonference 2008, der afholdtes i Aarhus 2. og 3. april 2008.

Se under mit eget indlæg under Torsdag kl. 13.30 - 14.30: Genbrug af software

Jeg beklager de mange “øhhh”, der primært skyldes jetlag efter min USA turshjemkomst dagen før.

If you don’t have anything else to do these days, read the Economist briefing: Economics and the rule of law - Order in the jungle.

In my younger days I spend a lot of time reading about the intersection of Law and Economics. I actually lectured as an associaite professor an the topic for four semesters at the Copnhagen University Law School.

The Economist briefing gives an excellent exposition of the (attempt to say something scientific about) the rule that the law plays for economic growth and success of different countries. There are interesting distinctions between the “thin” rule of law theory which emphasizes property right and stable legal instutions and “thick” rule of law that add the whole gamut of civil liberties and human rights.

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economist, ruleoflaw, lawandeconomics

Two great conference coming up on my otherwise not so extensive or busy travelling schedule.

Just after the Easter break I will travel to San Francisco to attend the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC).

The about two months after I will return to San Francisco to attend Supernova 2008. This trip is arranged by the Danish eBusiness Association (FDIH).

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