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Gideon Burton

Getty, Liberation of Masterpieces as Open Content by $techgnotic on deviantART - 0 views

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    A bold move by an important institution to open up its content.
Gideon Burton

The Fixer's Manifesto- the future needs fixing - sugru - 0 views

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    Interesting - the authors of the "Fixer's Manifesto" ask you to fix their manifesto and provide various ways of doing so. Great example of open content and open culture.
Gideon Burton

Op-Ed Contributor - How the Internet Got Its Rules - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • We thought maybe we’d put together a few temporary, informal memos on network protocols, the rules by which computers exchange information
  • Less important than the content of those first documents was that they were available free of charge and anyone could write one. Instead of authority-based decision-making, we relied on a process we called “rough consensus and running code.”
  • Still fearful of sounding presumptuous, I labeled the note a “Request for Comments.”
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  • the R.F.C.’s themselves took root and flourished. They became the formal method of publishing Internet protocol standards
  • Our intent was only to encourage others to chime in, but I worried we might sound as though we were making official decisions or asserting authority.
  • It probably helped that in those days we avoided patents and other restrictions; without any financial incentive to control the protocols, it was much easier to reach agreement.
  • This was the ultimate in openness in technical design and that culture of open processes was essential in enabling the Internet to grow and evolve as spectacularly as it has
  • we always tried to design each new protocol to be both useful in its own right and a building block available to others. We did not think of protocols as finished products, and we deliberately exposed the internal architecture to make it easy for others to gain a foothold.
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    Stephen D. Crocker explains the early planning documents ("Requests for Comments") and how they exemplified and made possible the open nature of the web.
David Potter

Michael Feldstein - Open Source, Economics, and Higher Education - 0 views

shared by David Potter on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
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    Summary : Michael Feldstein's contribution to the OSS and OER in Education Series. In this post, he writes about how open source projects work from an economic perspective. Drawing on the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase and Harvard economics professor Yochai Benkler, he will provide some perspective on how open source projects manage to defy conventional wisdom about economics and self-interested behavior, and gives some questions that universities can ask when considering whether a particular open source software project is likely to be successful.
Gideon Burton

The Open Video Landscape: 90+ Web Sources You Might Have Missed « EUscreen - 2 views

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    Source for open content for video
Parker Woody

Free Journals Grow Amid Ongoing Debate -- Kaiser 329 (5994): 896 -- Science - 0 views

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    Great article on the open access campaign of scholarly journals.
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    Article on the open access campaign of scientific journals
James Wilcox

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences - 0 views

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    This is the oldest and longest running scientific Journal in the world.  It has a lot of free open content to keep you busy.
Gideon Burton

OER Commons - 0 views

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    A very good aggregator of open educational content.
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    This is particularly useful for diversifying the kinds of content that you search for on a given topic
Gideon Burton

Creating New Business Models with Transactional APIs | Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog - 1 views

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    Content vs. Transactional APIs. As a non-programmer, I've come to learn just how critical it is to understand how APIs articulate services and people across the web. This article explains levels of API openness (perhaps a metaphor for non-commercial entities)
Gideon Burton

Crowdsourcing Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture in Audio format - 0 views

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    An archive of the crowdsourcing effort to record Lawrence Lessig's book, Free Culture. Nice demonstration of the process and the success of open content. This post was the inspiration for the creation of Librivox.org (see http://librivox.org/about)
Madeline Rupard

Helium--An interesting idea. - 0 views

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    I stumbled upon this website the other day. Its an article site with a bunch of hired authors. "Wait--hired authors!!" You say, in righteous defense of the open "wiki" model. But the cool thing about hired authors is that they are all viewing and rating each other's articles. Hence, "helium," the best articles rise to the top. I mean who decided that it was the best system to have bored 40 year olds living with their parents as the main source of information. (Let's be honest, those wikipedia articles didn't write themselves.) The good thing about a paid workforce is that there is a sense of pressure under writing the articles. Their business model is in and of itself an "invisible hand." Anyways, i thought it was a cool idea. Voila.
Rhett Ferrin

Crowdsourcing - 0 views

shared by Rhett Ferrin on 29 Sep 10 - Cached
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      This is the author's blog about crowdsourcing, so this will give you relevant, up to date information.
  • Crowdsourcing: A Definition I like to use two definitions for crowdsourcing: The White Paper Version: Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call. The Soundbyte Version: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.
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    Jeff Howe's blog about the topic he has championed in Wired and through his book Crowdsourcing.
Bri Zabriskie

IA Books in Browsers 2010 Agenda - Reading 2.0 - 1 views

  • Monocle
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      is it the same as this?: "Monocle is a global briefing covering international affairs, business, culture and design." -- www.monocle.com
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      What do they mean by reader privacy?
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  • Social Reading
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      Social reading -- sounds exciting. I've been thinking how cool it would be to have a class group textbook online. SO like you go online to yoru textbook for your class and you can see what other classmates have highlighted and commented on and tagged and add your own thoughts to the discussion. They can link to their blog posts about a subject in teh book that they did expanded self-directed learning on or just that they thought about more, etc. Sounds SUPER cool, huh? (ok ok, I'll blog about it)
  • discoverability
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      LOVE this word. Discoverability?! he he
  • A network of Books
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      yes! A network of books! just like webpages! 
  • Finding Shelf Space in a World Without Shelves
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      or rethinking the format we're used to!
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      hmm... a sticky subject. 
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    What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall of this conference.  Check out the contents!
Shuan Pai

Royal Society of London - 2 views

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    This presentation from Slideshare follows closely with what our class is discussing presently. Includes Open Content, Web 2.0, Social Networking, etc.
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