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