Category Archives: Culture

Backfired

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

Some time ago, the Tibetan Dalai Lama visited Tallinn. He has been here a couple of times before, always drawing ire from the Chinese government. This time, the reaction was to drop a minister’s planned visit to China, something else … Continue reading →

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Stealing the (very) old dreams

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

The JSTOR affair is really a new level of absurdity in the already pretty crazy world of ‘intellectual property’.  A very good overview is provided by Glyn Moody at his Open Enterprise blog. The man who copied a bunch of … Continue reading →

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Hackers and Vatican

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

It all started with the article by Father Spadaro reviewed here. Then came the Slashdot discussion. Then ESR commented on it. If anything, it suggests that a certain kind of atheism is an intolerant religion by itself. Even ESR seems … Continue reading →

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English or not English

Posted on March 5, 2011 by

Quite an interesting article at the Chronicle – pointing out that heading towards English as an universal language of academy in Europe will definitely bring along some problems as well.  Language skill shortage both on teachers’ and students’ side, having … Continue reading →

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Protect the authors… from themselves

Posted on February 3, 2011 by

The story was so absurd that it made it to the  TV evening news (which typically do not bother on similar blunders) yesterday. Two popular Estonian musicians teamed up and jammed some. Wrote a song, wrote its lyrics, recorded the … Continue reading →

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Creativecommons.ee

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

The Estonian localisation of CC licenses is finally completed. It was quite a rough ride – the initial enthusiasts who started the process had to step aside, after a while the process was picked up by the Estonian Information Technology … Continue reading →

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Brief thoughts on Wikileaks

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

Julian Assange has been caught. The Evil Four of the Pirate Bay likewise. Everyone can sleep in peace now. Not likely. Neither Wikileaks nor the Pirate Bay will disappear. And if, by any chance, someone could manage to obliterate them, … Continue reading →

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Hackers vs ITNs

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

About a month ago, we had the EITC curriculum council meeting that featured a number of serious IT guys from different state institutions and companies as guests – in order to better grasp the ideas and requirements of the enterprise. … Continue reading →

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CreativeCommons.ee

Posted on November 5, 2010 by

About a year later than originally intended, the Estonian localisation of the main six Creative Commons licenses has been finished. The promotional event concluded a couple of hours ago at EITC, my slides (sorry, in Estonian) are available at SlideShare … Continue reading →

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