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The Future Impact of Openness
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| The European Commission has released a
| report [.pdf] with the rather unpromising
| title "Trends in connectivity technologies
| and their socio-economic impacts". Despite
| this, and a rather stodgy academic style,
| there are a number of interesting points
| made.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/future-impact-of-openness.html
MIT OCW Funding Analysis (and Implications)
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| Ryanâs article is an extended argument for
| why MIT should continue to support OCW after
| its grant funding runs out in two years. I
| (and I expect most readers of this blog)
| agree with the importance he places on the
| project and the very important public good
| it has become. More importantly, MIT OCW is
| terribly important to the broader field of
| open education.
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http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1173
Update on MIT OCW Finances â and Click to Enroll!
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1180
Visualising Open Data
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| One of the heartening trends in openness
| recently has been the increasing, if
| belated, release of non-personal government
| data around the world. Even the UK is waking
| up to the fact that transparency is not just
| good democracy, but is good economics too,
| since it can stimulate all kinds of
| innovation based on mashups of the
| underlying data.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/visualising-open-data.html
Uncommon Meditations on the Commons
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| It's significant that books about the
| commons are starting to appear more
| frequently now. Here's one that came out six
| months ago:
|
| Who Owns the World? The Rediscovery of
| the Commons, has now been published by
| oekom Verlag in Berlin. (The German
| title is Wem gehÃrt die Welt â Zur
| Wiederentdeckung der GemeingÃter.) The
| book is an anthology of essays by a wide
| range of international authors,
| including Elinor Ostrom, Richard
| Stallman, Sunita Narain, Ulrich
| Steinvorth, Peter Barnes, Oliver
| Moldenhauer, Pat Mooney and David
| Bollier.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/uncommon-meditations-on-commons.html
IFNCs: Consortia May Have To Give Away Content For Free
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| âIf you take this stack of video stories
| about a region and you create a kind of
| syndication model - itâs probably a free
| syndication model - you actually create an
| enabling mechanism for people to access this
| video content and do something with it,â
| Ofcomâs content and standards partner
| Stewart Purvis told the regulatorâs Have We
| Got News For You? conference in Cardiff on
| Friday.
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-ifncs-consortia-may-have-to-give-away-content-for-free/
Related:
MIT Faculty and Libraries Refuse DRM; SAE Digital Library Canceled
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| SAE's DRM technology severely limits use of SAE papers and
| imposes unnecessary burdens on readers. With this technology,
| users must download a DRM plugin, Adobe?s "FileOpen," in order
| to read SAE papers. This plugin limits use to on-screen viewing
| and making a single printed copy, and does not work on Linux
| or Unix platforms.
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http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/archives/category/subject-areas/engineering/
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