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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from August 2016</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from August 2016</description>
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  10                 <title>Sales number for the Free Culture translation, first half of 2016</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Fri, 5 Aug 2016 22:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;As my regular readers probably remember, I published a French and
  15 Norwegian translation of the classic Free Culture book by the founder
  16 of the Creative Commons movement, Lawrence Lessig, the last year.  A
  17 bit less known is the fact that due to the way I created the
  18 translations, using docbook and po4a, and also recreated the English
  19 original.  And because I already had created a new the PDF edition, I
  20 published it too.  The revenue from the book is sent to the Creative
  21 Commons Corporation.  So I do not earn any money from the project, I
  22 just earn the warm fuzzy feeling that the text is available for a
  23 wider audience and more people can learn why the Creative Commons is
  24 needed.&lt;/p&gt;
  25
  26 &lt;p&gt;Today, just for fun, I had a look at the sales number over at
  27 Lulu.com, which take care of payment, printing and shipping.  Much to
  28 my surprise, the English edition is selling better than both the
  29 French and Norwegian edition, despite the fact that it has been
  30 available in English since it was first published.  In total, 24 paper
  31 books was sold for USD $19.99 between 2016-01-01 and 2016-07-31:&lt;/p&gt;
  32
  33 &lt;table border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;
  34 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Title / language&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Quantity&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  35 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/culture-libre/paperback/product-22645082.html&quot;&gt;Culture Libre / French&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  36 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Fri kultur / Norwegian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;7&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  37 &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22440520.html&quot;&gt;Free Culture / English&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;14&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
  38 &lt;/table&gt;
  39
  40 &lt;p&gt;The books are available both from Lulu.com and from large book
  41 stores like Amazon and Barnes&amp;Noble.  Most revenue, around $10 per
  42 book, is sent to the Creative Commons project when the book is sold
  43 directly by Lulu.com.  The summary from Lulu tell me 10 books was sold
  44 via the Amazon channel, 10 via Ingram (what is this?) and 4 directly
  45 by Lulu.  And Lulu.com tells me that the revenue sent so far this year
  46 is USD $101.42.  No idea what kind of sales numbers to expect, so I do
  47 not know if that is a good amount of sales for a 10 year old book or
  48 not.  But it make me happy that the buyers find the book, and I hope
  49 they enjoy reading it as much as I did.&lt;/p&gt;
  50
  51 &lt;p&gt;The ebook edition is available for free from
  52 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  53
  54 &lt;p&gt;If you would like to translate and publish the book in your native
  55 language, I would be happy to help make it happen.  Please get in
  56 touch.&lt;/p&gt;
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  61                 <title>Vitenskapen tar som vanlig feil igjen - relativt feil</title>
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  64                 <pubDate>Mon, 1 Aug 2016 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
  65                 <description>&lt;p&gt;For mange år siden leste jeg en klassisk tekst som gjorde såpass
  66 inntrykk på meg at jeg husker den fortsatt, flere år senere, og bruker
  67 argumentene fra den stadig vekk.  Teksten var «The Relativity of
  68 Wrong» som Isaac Asimov publiserte i Skeptical Inquirer i 1989.  Den
  69 gir litt perspektiv rundt formidlingen av vitenskapelige resultater.
  70 Jeg har hatt lyst til å kunne dele den også med folk som ikke
  71 behersker engelsk så godt, som barn og noen av mine eldre slektninger,
  72 og har savnet å ha den tilgjengelig på norsk.  For to uker siden tok
  73 jeg meg sammen og kontaktet Asbjørn Dyrendal i foreningen Skepsis om
  74 de var interessert i å publisere en norsk utgave på bloggen sin, og da
  75 han var positiv tok jeg kontakt med Skeptical Inquirer og spurte om
  76 det var greit for dem.  I løpet av noen dager fikk vi tilbakemelding
  77 fra Barry Karr hos The Skeptical Inquirer som hadde sjekket og fått OK
  78 fra Robyn Asimov som representerte arvingene i Asmiov-familien og gikk
  79 igang med oversettingen.&lt;/p&gt;
  80
  81 &lt;p&gt;Resultatet, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skepsis.no/?p=1617&quot;&gt;«Relativt
  82 feil»&lt;/a&gt;, ble publisert på skepsis-bloggen for noen minutter siden.
  83 Jeg anbefaler deg på det varmeste å lese denne teksten og dele den med
  84 dine venner.&lt;/p&gt;
  85
  86 &lt;p&gt;For å håndtere oversettelsen og sikre at original og oversettelse
  87 var i sync brukte vi git, po4a, GNU make og Transifex.  Det hele
  88 fungerte utmerket og gjorde det enkelt å dele tekstene og jobbe sammen
  89 om finpuss på formuleringene.  Hadde hosted.weblate.org latt meg
  90 opprette nye prosjekter selv i stedet for å måtte kontakte
  91 administratoren der, så hadde jeg brukt weblate i stedet.&lt;/p&gt;
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  96                 <title>Techno TV broadcasting live across Norway and the Internet (#debconf16, #nuug) on @frikanalen</title>
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  99                 <pubDate>Mon, 1 Aug 2016 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
 100                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Did you know there is a TV channel broadcasting talks from DebConf
 101 16 across an entire country?  Or that there is a TV channel
 102 broadcasting talks by or about
 103 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625529/&quot;&gt;Linus Torvalds&lt;/a&gt;,
 104 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625599/&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt;,
 105 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/624019/&quot;&gt;OpenID&lt;/A&gt;,
 106 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625624/&quot;&gt;Common Lisp&lt;/a&gt;,
 107 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625446/&quot;&gt;Civic Tech&lt;/a&gt;,
 108 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625090/&quot;&gt;EFF founder John Barlow&lt;/a&gt;,
 109 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625432/&quot;&gt;how to make 3D
 110 printer electronics&lt;/a&gt; and many more fascinating topics?  It works
 111 using only free software (all of it
 112 &lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/Frikanalen&quot;&gt;available from Github&lt;/a&gt;), and
 113 is administrated using a web browser and a web API.&lt;/p&gt;
 114
 115 &lt;p&gt;The TV channel is the Norwegian open channel
 116 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt;, and I am involved
 117 via &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the NUUG member association&lt;/a&gt; in
 118 running and developing the software for the channel.  The channel is
 119 organised as a member organisation where its members can upload and
 120 broadcast what they want (think of it as Youtube for national
 121 broadcasting television).  Individuals can broadcast too.  The time
 122 slots are handled on a first come, first serve basis.  Because the
 123 channel have almost no viewers and very few active members, we can
 124 experiment with TV technology without too much flack when we make
 125 mistakes.  And thanks to the few active members, most of the slots on
 126 the schedule are free.  I see this as an opportunity to spread
 127 knowledge about technology and free software, and have a script I run
 128 regularly to fill up all the open slots the next few days with
 129 technology related video.  The end result is a channel I like to
 130 describe as Techno TV - filled with interesting talks and
 131 presentations.&lt;/p&gt;
 132
 133 &lt;p&gt;It is available on channel 50 on the Norwegian national digital TV
 134 network (RiksTV).  It is also available as a multicast stream on
 135 Uninett.  And finally, it is available as
 136 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;a WebM unicast stream&lt;/a&gt; from
 137 Frikanalen and NUUG.  Check it out. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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