October « 2005 « OpenBusiness

Is Open Business Web 2.0?

In an article for Wired, Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin argues that a key component of Web 2.0 is ‘public participation and contributions from the commons.’ This, she says, is not necessarily a good thing. (Jardin is following here the recent invective from Nicholas Carr, who savages Wikipedia for Continue reading »

31st Oct, 2005
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Critical Parliament

Project out-line: Critical Parliament will be a 20 month development project conducted on and through the WorldWideWeb, constituted by a constantly evolving online archive of textual works responding to the ever-growing conceptual interest in expanded notions of art, curating and curating-as-art. These works will be freely submitted and then judged (through Continue reading »

29th Oct, 2005
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The Economic Case for Creative Commons textbooks

Fred Beshears, Senior Strategist within the Educational Technology Services department at Berkeley, University of California has written a convincing article on the economic case for 'creative commons textbooks'. Continue reading »

24th Oct, 2005
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Open Congress

Available at http://opencongress.omweb.org/modules/wakka/texts

17th Oct, 2005
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Gift Economies in the Development of Open Source Software: Anthropological Reflections.

Author David Zeitlyn.

Published Research Policy, v.32, no.7: p1287-1291, 2003.

17th Oct, 2005
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Giving it Away: How Red Hat Software Stumbled Across a New Economic Model and Helped Improve an Industry

Author Robert Young.

Published Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, and Mark Stone, (editors), Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution. O’Reilly and Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999.