copyright and open source

opening up scholarship: generosity among grinches

Submitted by jennamc on Jul 05, 2009, 07:41 PM

This is a recent post from my blog, sleeping alone and starting out early.

 

why academic research and open exchange of ideas are like that bottle of raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing you've had in the back of your fridge since last summer

 

 

Duke U Press Publishes Study by Obama's Mama

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 04, 2009, 02:03 PM
It hasn't been very often, if ever, in American history that the mother of the President of the United States was a scholar and an academic.  Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing Against the Odds:  Village Industry in Indonesia, by the late S. Ann Dunham.  Duke U Press Editorial Director Ken Wissoker notes:  ?It is a great privilege for Duke University Press to be publishing this remarkable work by Ann Dunham.  Her global perspective and obvious respect for other people?s intelligence and self-direction is a model we all can learn from. Her children clearly have!?

Mining the Military-Academic-Industrial Complex in a Poetic-Serious Fashion

Submitted by nknouf on Apr 20, 2009, 11:06 PM

Sadly I was not able to attend the HASTAC conference, but I wanted to post some information about a current project of mine...

As we now hear by some commentators that the "worst" of the so-called financial "crisis" "might" be over, we have to acknowledge the difficulty of squaring

The Evolution of Information Technology

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 02, 2009, 08:44 AM

As we have noted, technological innovation comes seldom without resistance, be it from legacy technologies and business models, or in the defence of the entrenched 

The Four C's of the Internet Commonwealth - Part 3: Completeness

Submitted by mindprints on Feb 21, 2009, 04:22 PM

completeness

According to a "law" formulated by Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet:

The Four C's of the Internet Commonwealth - Part 2: Commoditization

Submitted by mindprints on Feb 19, 2009, 06:12 PM

In every great technological epoch, commoditization - the standardization of methods, tools and parts in