WS-* explosion

Interesting quote at the SOA Blog by the Jonathan Schwartz - that Web Service standards are proliferating out of control and may collapse or fragment. That may well be true but it seems likely that the service oriented computing meme will be with us for a long time (and in indeed already has been): the issues faced by WS-* are the classic problems that come out of the woodwork when you try to build complex distributed systems. There's no doubt some of these standards will die - but at the end of the day at least we have a more or less common framework people are working towards.

Creative Commons Search at Yahoo

This is great news (first spotted from lawrence lessig's blog so the world will know anyway...) - this is a huge step because it both makes creative commons content easier to find AND will encourage people to develop it. To see how immediately useful this is for example typing "XML Course" into the system gets this and quite a few other links to stuff which could be re-used.

Interestingly loads of the entries are blog entries (a win for blogging tools which make this easy to switch on) - which reminds me i still need to put the creative commons license on mine!

Academic Publishing

A kind of copyright last post for Lawrence Lessig. Something i'd like to do to - problem is how to marry that with the need tp publish, publish, publish in rated journals an Academic carear. Not easy.

What a Shame :-(

EC OKs software patents.

UPDATE: 9.03.2005: Seems like a lot of people are astonished, outraged - lets just hope it gets rejected at the next reading.