My thesis, based on my anthropological fieldwork in the Ubuntu community, is finally done, and I turned it in yesterday. Since I began writing my thesis, I’ve had this as my background screen on my computer: ‘Going Native‘ is losing your reflexive anthropological distance by becoming to closely involved with the field. It is taking [...]
Unfortunately, this time it was my computer. Dear Rosinante served me well for more than 2 and half years, and is quite unlikely to resume service, as it is no longer covered by the warranty and changing its motherboard and CPU is likely to be just as if not more expensive than buying a whole [...]
As the awareness of the issues surrounding copyright and copyleft increases, filmmakers have begun to take notice and make films which focus on these matters. Recently, Danish state television aired two such films which are now available for streaming off their website. Simply paste the following link rtsp://streamer-01.dr.nordija.dk:554/DR2Tema1700.mp4 into a movie player such as VLC [...]