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SXSW: Shirkyâs New Opportunities in Public Sharing
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| Today social technology theorist Clay
| Shirky delivered a fitting counterpoint to
| Danah Boydâs keynote on privacy at SXSW the
| day before. Where Boyd spoke of the danger
| of making information more public than
| users intended it, Shirky talked about new
| opportunities for sharing information
| online and elsewhere.
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http://gigaom.com/2010/03/14/sxsw-shirkys-new-opportunities-in-public-sharing/
Shirky: Napster tapped into our primate instincts
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| New York University professor Clay Shirky
| thinks he's getting old, or in other words,
| "my average age has been going up at the
| alarming rate of about one year per year."
| Recently, he said, he had to explain
| Napster to a class of his students because
| they were too young to have known much
| about the groundbreaking music-sharing
| service in its heyday.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20000414-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
estimating ullage
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| Ullage, the word for the empty space at the
| top of a wine bottle, is Peter Suber's term
| for the gap between a library's actual
| holdings and its patrons' access needs.
| That's a difficult thing to measure, but I
| might have found a way to estimate it with
| reference not to patron needs but to all
| published journals, as follows.
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http://www.sennoma.net/main/archives/2010/03/estimating_ullage.php
Making Public Information Available Online: Rep. Israel Introduces the Public Online Information Act
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| Today, Representative Steve Israel
| introduced the Public Online Information
| Act, which if enacted would free a vast
| treasure trove of government information.
| All too often, information that the law
| requires be publicly available is hidden
| behind stone walls and paper barriers. POIA
| tears down these walls by:
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| * Requiring Executive Branch agencies
| to publish publicly available
| information on the Internet in a timely
| fashion and in user-friendly formats.
| * Creating a multi-branch advisory
| committee to develop government-wide
| Internet publication guidelines.
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http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2010/03/16/making-public-information-available-online-rep-israel-introduces-the-public-online-information-act/
Transparency Is Trending
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| This week is Sunshine Week, a lot of people
| are very excited and are taking the time to
| write about why open government is
| important to them. Here are just a few of
| the great posts people are writing,
| explaining why transparency is important.
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http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2010/03/16/transparency-is-trending/
Battle of the Opens
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| So hereâfree, gratis, libre, and openâis a
| brief, simplistic guide to several flavors
| of open, organized around the following
| questions:
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| * What is the target of this movement?
| What is being made open? As compared to
| what?
| * What legal regimes are implicated?
| * How does openness happen? What are
| the major variants of open works of
| this type?
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http://scienceblogs.com/bookoftrogool/2010/03/battle_of_the_opens.php
Open Sourcing A Disease Diagnosis
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| If you follow Larry Lessig on Twitter, you
| noticed that all day Monday he was putting
| messages on Twitter about how "JZ" was sick
| and was trying to "open source" his
| diagnosis.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100315/2324378575.shtml
Recent:
The open society
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| America is in the lead on data access. On
| his first full day in office Barack Obama
| issued a presidential memorandum ordering
| the heads of federal agencies to make
| available as much information as possible,
| urging them to act âwith a clear
| presumption: in the face of doubt, openness
| prevailsâ. This was all the more remarkable
| since the Bush administration had explicitly
| instructed agencies to do the opposite.
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http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15557477&fsrc=rss
Open Access linked to Alabama shooting
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| On 15th February, for instance, The Daily
| Kos pointed out that the International
| Journal of General Medicine charges authors
| to publish their papers. This fact alone,
| The Daily Kos seemed to imply, meant that
| the paper would have been inadequate. But
| there was more.
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http://poynder.blogspot.com/2010/02/open-access-linked-to-alabama-shooting.html
Free Our Data response to the DCLG consultation on OS Free
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| The Free Our Data campaign was co-founded in
| March 2006 by Charles Arthur and Michael
| Cross with the aim of persuading government
| that non-personal datasets created by
| government-owned agencies and companies and
| organisations should be made available for
| free reuse without licence restrictions.
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http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2010/02/free-our-data-response-to-the-dclg-consultation-on-os-free/
Democracy Club is up and running
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| Democracy Club is up and running. Last week
| meetings were held up and down the country
| organised by volunteers involved with the
| new initiative to bring transparency to
| government. The project is an out-growth of
| TheyWorkForYou and other associated websites
| of MySociety founded by the ever inventive
| Tom Steinberg.
|
| Thanks to the formidable resources it began
| with, with the emails of all those who've
| signed up to those sites on its database,
| Democracy Club already has over 3000
| volunteers spread across 641of 650 of the
| UKâs constituencies.
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/guy-aitchison/democracy-club-is-up-and-running
European research funders throw weight behind UK open access repository
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| Four European research funders have today
| added their support to the open access
| repository UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) by
| agreeing that the life sciences research
| outputs made possible with their funding are
| made freely available through this
| repository.
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http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2010/WTX058744.htm
Adventures of an Amateur Cartographer
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| While striding manfully across the streets
| of suburbia this week I've been listened to
| some back issues of FLOSS Weekly that I'd
| previously missed. This excellent podcast by
| Randal Schwartz covers all aspects of Free
| Libre Open Source Software, occasionally
| straying into open source hardware and, in
| the case of the podcast I was listening to,
| open source data.
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http://frogplate.net/blog/amateur-cartographer.html
Textbooks That Professors Can Rewrite Digitally
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| In a kind of Wikipedia of textbooks,
| Macmillan, one of the five largest
| publishers of trade books and textbooks, is
| introducing software called DynamicBooks,
| which will allow college instructors to edit
| digital editions of textbooks and customize
| them for their individual classes.
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| Professors will be able to reorganize or
| delete chapters; upload course syllabuses,
| notes, videos, pictures and graphs; and
| perhaps most notably, rewrite or delete
| individual paragraphs, equations or
| illustrations.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/business/media/22textbook.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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