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Entries from September 2012.

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+ Etterprøvbar kunnskap under press, alle mann til pumpene! +
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+ 24th September 2012 +
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Jeg har sterk tro på vitenskap, som er et annet navn på +etterprøvbar kunnskap, som metode for å sikre et velfungerende +samfunn. Eller som en fantastisk reklamekampanje i England formulerte +det, vitenskap +flyr deg til månen, religion flyr deg inn i bygninger. Men den +vitenskapelige metode trenger folk med kunnskap, evne og vilje til å +gjøre sitt beste, og settes under press av et samfunn som ikke akkurat +belønner slike egenskaper. Her er noen skremmende og oppmuntrende +lenker relatert jeg anbefaler alle å lese:

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Ingen tvil om at alle gode krefter må jobbe sammen for å sikre at +vi vet hvor vi skal fly.

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+ Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture +
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+ 23rd September 2012 +
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Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian docbook version of the 2004 book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig. +The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist +in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for +those that are reluctant do read an English book. + +When I started, I +called +for volunteers to help me, but too few have volunteered so far, +and progress is a bit slow. Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent +mark for the first rough translation. At the moment, less than 700 +strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate. With +my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to +complete the translation. This graph show the updated progress:

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Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work +commitments. If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out +the project files currently available from +github.

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If you are curious what the translated book currently look like, +the updated +PDF +and +EPUB +are published on github. The HTML version is published as well, but +github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I +saw no point in linking to that version.

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+ + + Tags: docbook, english, freeculture. + + +
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Vitenskaplig metode i politikken? @@ -648,6 +748,13 @@ Science Songbook.

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