jearley

With other things taking high priority over the last 6 months, this is the first opportunity I’ve had to look at the progression of ODRL Version 2.0, and evaluating where it’s improved from the earlier versions.  First things first, ODRL has migrated to the W3C as a Community Working Group .  Overall, this is a good thing.  It opens it up to the wider W3C community, gives greater credence to the effort and more importantly, more exposure.  Well done.  On to my first impressions: 1... Read Full Story

Prologue:   Before starting my career in the tech world 15+ years ago,  I was a graduate student in Sociology studying political movements and economies.  At any rate, what’s intriguing about technology is not only about 0s or 1s, data structures, angle brackets, optimized queries or distributed architectures (don’t get me wrong, I love elegant code  and design as much as any other geek) – it’s also the intended and unintended consequences it has on society at large.   As the automobile... Read Full Story

In the late 1940s and early 1950s Joseph McCarthy was determined to eradicate the Red Scare by accusing numerous Americans of treason and being communists.  It resulted in many actors being blacklisted , and resulted in the now infamous question to the “Hollywood Ten” from the House Committee on Un-American Activities – “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”  They exercised their 5th Amendment rights and refused to answer the question, principally because they... Read Full Story

This is a bit of a rant.  I get tired of hearing and reading fanboy comments that go along the lines of:  “X rules, Y[,Z] drools…”, “You’re just a hater…"  Blah. Blah Blah. It’s like listening to reverb on PA system. My irritation stems from an article I read recently about the potential repercussions of Adobe’s move to stop development of Flash for mobile devices .  The article, in my opinion, was well balanced and made the point that while Flash is on the decline, there’s plenty of room... Read Full Story

I just finished reading an article about Roger McNamee’s bold predictions about social media.  Aside from some the interesting business predictions (e.g., don’t invest in new social media startups: that train has left the station) that I mostly agree with, he is strongly emphasizing the emergence of HTML5 as the technology that will drive application development in the future.  On this point, I’m not ready to throw my FlexBuilder, Visual Studio, Eclipse and Android SDK development... Read Full Story

Over the last year, I've been developing strategies that allow publishers to define and identify IP Rights. The big difference between (DRM), and IPRM is that DRM is about locking down assets to mitigate against piracy. IPRM is about identifying and calculating clearance to use assets for any given context, and enabling publishers to make informed decisions about using specific assets. ODRL , or , is a well-established, robust, extensible XML markup designed specifically for this purpose. At... Read Full Story

Over the last year, I've been developing strategies that allow publishers to define and identify IP Rights. The big difference between (DRM), and IPRM is that DRM is about locking down assets to mitigate against piracy. IPRM is about identifying and calculating clearance to use assets for any given context, and enabling publishers to make informed decisions about using specific assets. ODRL , or , is a well-established, robust, extensible XML markup designed specifically for this purpose. At... Read Full Story

I’ve been working on putting my family history together for the last few years.  Most of the genealogical applications have some pretty nice features, but none seemed to have all of the features I wanted.  I wanted the ability to manage all of the summary information and relationships (all applications do this), but also cross reference the factual data with individual biographies.  And, I want to be able to display the information in different ways and formats – not just the ones supported... Read Full Story

I’ve been working on putting my family history together for the last few years.  Most of the genealogical applications have some pretty nice features, but none seemed to have all of the features I wanted.  I wanted the ability to manage all of the summary information and relationships (all applications do this), but also cross reference the factual data with individual biographies.  And, I want to be able to display the information in different ways and formats – not just the ones supported... Read Full Story

No one knows with any degree of certainty what the outcome will be from Oracle’s patent infringement lawsuit against Google .  While the impetus of the lawsuit is largely focused on Dalvik , Google’s mobile VM based on Java, the consequences of legal action will likely reverberate through the larger Java world.  I don’t have a dog in this fight.  Yet. On the one hand, Oracle appears to be hell bent on reversing Sun’s decision to release Java to the open source community, according to an... Read Full Story