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