Software Cooperative News

This is the final part of my review of popular articles on my news websites during 2008. It follows part 1 and part 2, but it can be enjoyed on its own, like an nice ripe cheese. Unlike one friend, I do not like cheese for breakfast.

September

Are Your Free Software T-Shirts Ethical? [...]

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This is a continuation from part 1 but can be enjoyed on its own too, like a good red wine. It’s a bit early for me for red wine, though.

May

BBC TV: Click: Free=beer and facebook-flaming – my letter was never broadcast, as far as I know
Fuel Price Bleating and Biking – one of the [...]

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Over the next few days, I’m looking at the most popular articles from this site and my previous news website during 2008. I’ll be doing it in three parts.
Popularity is measured by page views from local access logs, but some articles were actually more popular in the months after they were first posted, so [...]

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Open and voluntary membership is a point of principle for me, so I see SPI’s membership structure as a big plus. As I wrote back in August:
In my opinion, a key difference of Software in the Public Interest is that it is managed by free software developers in a more-or-less democratic fashion. Even though [...]

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I asked Which Social Bookmarking? almost a month ago. I was looking for a service which:-

is run on free software
provides RSS feeds of new additions (pref. RSS-1, but any RSS is OK)
provides all my bookmarks for download/backup in some easy format (even an HTML page would be fine)
at least lets me view without javascript, [...]

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