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Todd Suomela

Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » The Decline of Localist Broadcasting Policies - 0 views

  • New technologies undermine the rationale for localist policies. It’s easier to get far-away content now — indeed the whole notion that content is bound to a place is fading away. With access to more content sources, there are more possible venues for local programming, making it less likely that local programming will be unavailable because of the whims or blind spots of a few station owners. It’s getting easier and cheaper to gather and distribute information, so more people have the means to produce local programming. In short, we’re looking at a future with more non-local programming and more local programming.
Todd Suomela

SCSUScholars - 0 views

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    libertarian essay on public goods
Todd Suomela

News item (The University of Manchester) - 0 views

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    to begin the process of formulating a 'Manchester Manifesto' which they hope will lay down a consensus on intellectual property in science. The Manchester Manifesto process will be completed in November this year.
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OnTheCommons.org » Caught in a Money Trap - 0 views

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    Connecting art funding to Theater de la Jeune Lune.
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PlanetMath - 0 views

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    PlanetMath is a virtual community which aims to help make mathematical knowledge more accessible. PlanetMath's content is created collaboratively: the main feature is the mathematics encyclopedia with entries written and reviewed by members. The entries are contributed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL) in order to preserve the rights of both the authors and readers in a sensible way.
Todd Suomela

Open CRS Network - CRS Reports for the People - 0 views

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    A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports.
Todd Suomela

Why Share in Peer-to-Peer Networks : Deep Blue at the University of Michigan - 0 views

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    We explore two possible explanations: private provision of public goods and generalized reciprocity. We investigate a particular form of private incentives to share content: redistributing traffic in the network to the advantage of the sharing peer.
Todd Suomela

Upsetting the oil drum | The Agonist - 0 views

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    it means not only a radically different structure of the economy, but a change in who runs American industry. And this is what the current political order is fighting to the death.
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    More political than commons related, but connected to the question of energy and resource usage and power.
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