The World of a Penguin

Are you sitting on some data and not sharing it? Is it collected by tax-funding? Why do you not share it? Tim Berners-Lee talk at TED about the problem people not sharing data. Take 15 minutes and listen to his talk. I wait when you doing it............ OK? Are you still sitting on your data? Have you talked to you boss about share it? Show the talk for him/her. Think! Help mankind! Actually, Tim Berners-Lee talks about the semantic web but not using the word.

I do not understand why it is so common that people writes to a mailinglist and ask how to unsubscribe? If they were capable to subscribe, why are they not capable to read the footer in each mail: -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users The exampel above is from the ubuntu user list but it is quite common on other lists too. Are you one of the people I talk about? Then check some mails from the list you want to unsubscribe for instructions before you ask/complain on the list.

In the February issue of Communication of the ACM there is an article about a site for peer reviewing Patents. The site is caller Peer to Patent . The idea with the site is to give the sites community a chance to point out prior art and other relevant information about new patent applications. To get the details about the process the site has an instruction video and tutorial. Behind the site stands New York Law School. I thinkthe idea of the site is very good and it will hopefully increase the quality of granted patents. I guess the inspiration to the community is partly is from the Open Source community.