When we designed the Internet the first time, our priorities were reliability, robustness and minimizing central points of failure or control. We are alarmed that Congress is so close to mandating censorship-compliance as a design requirement for new Internet innovations. This can only damage the security of the network, and give authoritarian governments more power over what their citizens can read and publish.
The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open Internet, both domestically and abroad. We cannot have a free and open Internet unless its naming and routing systems sit above the political concerns and objectives of any one government or industry. To date, the leading role the US has played in this infrastructure has been fairly uncontroversial because America is seen as a trustworthy arbiter and a neutral bastion of free expression. If the US begins to use its central position in the network for censorship that advances its political and economic agenda, the consequences will be far-reaching and destructive.
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Digital Government report - May 2012 - 0 views
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The government's plan (as of May 2012) for government-as-platform via digital tools.
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)
A Bigot by Any Other Name... - ACM Queue - 0 views
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)
Online Communion Sparks Questions for Digital Age - 0 views
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United Methodists debate online communion and open a conversation about religion in the digital age. Interestingly, they are using a hashtag #onlinecommunion as one way of generating discussion.
Fighting Against Special Interests and For the Public Interest: A Year of Change | The ... - 0 views
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Why is this my first time hearing about this? How many millions more don't know?
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To do just that, on his first full day in office, the President signed two critical documents that have shaped the Administration: the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government and the Executive Order on Ethics. As a result of the Memorandum on Transparency, we have since Day One, worked to empower the public – through greater openness and new technologies – to influence the decisions that affect their lives.
Speeches Website - 0 views
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BYU Forum. Great Talk! This is a must read/listen about if you give more you will actually make more. Link that to ideas of a free economy.
* A Note about Freeware - 0 views
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I think that this is an interesting personal perspective on the changes that the corporate world aka authority has brought to the internet.
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
Eliot, Charles W., ed. The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction. 1909... - 0 views
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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!
School (Architecture) - 0 views
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This text may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact the translator or spo-help@umich.edu for more information.
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The article is on one school of architecture, not likly to be found in a modern encyclopedia.
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Notice the avaliability of this source. Doesn't flow with open science, or the open knowledge descirbed therein.
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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!
Wikimedia Foundation - 0 views
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It's interesting how many teachers will not allow you to use Wikipedia as a source, but in light of this digital civilization class, isn't it a form of Open Access Information, and shouldn't it be praised in a way?
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Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.
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.
Crowdsourcing - 0 views
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This is the author's blog about crowdsourcing, so this will give you relevant, up to date information.
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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.
The Frontier In American History: Chapter X - 0 views
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As the American pioneer passed on in advance of this new tide of European immigration, he found lands increasingly limited
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The close of the Frontier
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. But the captains of industry by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American industrial society, have made the process so clear that he who runs may read.
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it seemed not impossible that the outcome of free competition under individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural resources and processes by a limited group of men whose vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial life of the nation
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Unregulated turn of events, the people were turned loose and made the best of it. What is wrong with this? They set the standards, and there is no room for competition.
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George Boole (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views
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George Boole (1815–1864) was an English mathematician and a founder of the algebraic tradition in logic. He worked as a schoolmaster in England and from 1849 until his death as professor of mathematics at Queen's University, Cork, Ireland. He revolutionized logic by applying methods from the then-emerging field of symbolic algebra to logic. Where traditional (Aristotelian) logic relied on cataloging the valid syllogisms of various simple forms, Boole's method provided general algorithms in an algebraic language which applied to an infinite variety of arguments of arbitrary complexity.
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Starting at the age of 16 it was necessary for Boole to find gainful employment, since his father was no longer capable of providing for the family. After 3 years working as a teacher in private schools, Boole decided, at the age of 19, to open his own small school in Lincoln. He would be a schoolmaster for the next 15 years, until 1849 when he became a professor at the newly opened Queen's University in Cork, Ireland. With heavy responsibilities for his parents and siblings, it is remarkable that he nonetheless found time during the years as a schoolmaster to continue his own education and to start a program of research, primarily on differential equations and the calculus of variations connected with the works of Laplace and Lagrange (which he studied in the original French).
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More about George Boole.
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This is fascinating that he began his career as a school teacher.
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