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

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.

Stephen D. Crocker explains the early planning documents ("Requests for Comments") and how they exemplified and made possible the open nature of the web.

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.

Source for open content for video

Great article on the open access campaign of scholarly journals.

Article on the open access campaign of scientific journals

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

A very good aggregator of open educational content.

This is particularly useful for diversifying the kinds of content that you search for on a given topic

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)

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)

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.

Jeff Howe's blog about the topic he has championed in Wired and through his book Crowdsourcing.

What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall of this conference.  Check out the contents!

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