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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.

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I loved how I went to this URL and the first entry was about molecular simulation. I'm just starting a research project with this. I hope that other people will get excited about the prospect of open science, or even as excited about the research and software as I am :)

Great link Jackie! I followed your link and really enjoyed reading some of the posts. One that I found particularly interesting is called "What, exactly, is Open Science?" I hadn't really thought about the importance of having research be available and open to everyone, but this article made me think about it and I agree. Thanks again for the link.

A great website that shows how science is becoming more open. A group of scientists "who want to encourage a collaborative environment in which science can be pursued by anyone who is inspired to discover something new about the natural world."

Interview with someone who's created an open source stenograpic keyboard emulator for transcription services. I work in transcription so I think this is pretty stinking awesome.

This is an open source wiki-like record of (eventually) all books ever published. I stumbled across it while looking for information about a book for another class. Interesting.

I thought this might fit into the question of open-source business models... Gaming is a huge part of our society and now its blending with open source!

The history on this site was really cool to read. Open source was basically created to dispel the monopolies that were being created by automobile developers.

Fascinating and spiritual history of our current version of the LDS Scriptures. There were many many people who worked on the project. The Church got a lot of public input on the making of these scriptures. You might say they are "open source", or that they were made with an agile process. Even the Bible Dictionary was taken from Cambridge University and they let the Church take their Bible Dictionary and make amendments to it.

A funny comic strip for the intellectually minded. Randall Munroe, the creator of xkcd must be an open-source kind of guy because he has put something like a Creative Commons (noncommercial, attribution) license on his work.

The Harvard Classics as free online open source books. They were advertised that, if read, they would provide an excellent Liberal Arts education. Some are simply selections of the whole books - but it is certainly a good overview! I think that I would prefer to read the whole books, though!

I loved the comment explaining why E.Coli is used for such experiments (because it is "the 'open source' biology SDK."

This is an article from the Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert. I clicked on it interested in how architecture was seen and got a quick history lesson!

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.

A seminal article from Yochai Benkler about changes to economic theory in the digital age.

the blog for the last site I bookmarked. Makes some interesting reading.