[2b2k] Why Is Open-Internet Champion Darrell Issa Supporting an Attack on...
I’ve swiped the title of this post from Rebecca J. Rosen’s excellent post at The Atlantic. Darrell Issa has been generally good on open Internet issues, so why is he supporting a bill that would forbid...
View ArticleCulture of Hope
Forum d’Avignon is an annual get-together in France to talk about culture, by which most of the attendees (and especially President Sarkozy who came to give a speech) mean how they can squash the...
View ArticleNeelie Kroes: European Commission’s voice for the open Internet
Neelie Kroes is becoming one of the open Internet’s most influential supporters. Kroes is Vice President of the European Commission and is responsible for its “digital agenda.” At the Forum d’Avignon I...
View Article[2b2k][everythingismisc]“Big data for books”: Harvard puts metadata for 12M...
(Here’s a version of the text of a submission I just made to BoingBong through their “Submitterator”) Harvard University has today put into the public domain (CC0) full bibliographic information about...
View Article[mesh] Rebecca MacKinnon
Rebecca MacKinnon is on stage at the Mesh conference in Toronto, being interviewed by Ron Hyndman about her excellent, excellent book, Consent of the Networked. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things...
View Article[berkman] Dries Buytaert: Drupal and sustaining collaborative efforts
Dries Buytaert [twitter:Dries] , the founder of Drupal and co-founder of Acquia, is giving a Berkman lunch talk about building and sustaining online collaborations. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things...
View Article1,000 downloads
I learned yesterday from Robin Wendler (who worked mightily on the project) that Harvard’s library catalog dataset of 12.3M records has been bulk downloaded a thousand times, excluding the Web...
View ArticleOpen Access facts from Peter Suber
I’m enjoying my friend Peter Suber’s small book Open Access. He’s a very clear and concise writer, and of course he knows this topic better than anyone. Here are some facts Peter mentions: In 2008,...
View ArticleIs Open Access only for rich countries?
From an email: …an online discussion on Open Access (OA) from the perspective of the developing world. Funded by DFID, through the Mobilising Knowledge for Development (MK4D) programme in the Institute...
View ArticleAn open open mobile OS
This isn’t news. I’m just slow. But in July, Mozilla announced it will launch its new mobile operating system in Brazil. The plan, apparently, is to focus first on emerging markets. The Mozilla mobile...
View ArticleTim Wu on prosecuting Aaron
… Swartz must be compared to two other eccentric geniuses, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who, in the nineteen-seventies, committed crimes similar to, but more economically damaging than, Swartz’s....
View ArticleWhy we mourn
CNN asked me to write 600-800 words about Aaron Swartz. I demurred at first, suggested some other people who knew Aaron better — I met Aaron when he was young, stayed in touch, had the occasional meal...
View ArticleAlfred Russel Wallace’s letters go online, with a very buried CC license that...
The letters of Lord Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, are now online. As the Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project explains, the collection...
View ArticleDPLA does metadata right
The Digital Public Library of America‘s policy on metadata was discussed during the recent board of directors call, and the DPLA is, in my opinion, getting it exactly and admirably right. (See...
View Article[2b2k] Cliff Lynch on preserving the ever-expanding scholarly record
Cliff Lynch is giving talk this morning to the extended Harvard Library community on information stewardship. Cliff leads the Coalition for Networked Information, a project of the Association of...
View ArticleWhat The New Yorker doesn’t say about Aaron
I read first Larissa MacFarquhar’s New Yorker article on Aaron Swartz too quickly. But it doesn’t skim well. I found that encouraging. I finally sat down to read it thoroughly a couple of days ago, and...
View Article[annotations][2b2k] Rob Sanderson on annotating digitized medieval manuscripts
Rob Sanderson [twitter:@azaroth42] of Los Alamos is talking about annotating Medieval manuscripts. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing...
View ArticlePodcast about the DPLA’s status and its relation to public libraries
The latest podcast in the Digital Campus series focuses solely on the current state of the Digital Public Library of America. The discussion includes Dan Cohen who has just accepted the position of...
View ArticleElsevier acquires Mendeley + all the data about what you read, share, and...
I liked the Mendeley guys. Their product is terrific — read your scientific articles, annotate them, be guided by the reading behaviors of millions of other people. I’d met with them several times over...
View ArticleLobby for FaceBook, Yahoo, NewsCorp and Elsevier opposes the White House Open...
Peter Suber points out that FaceBook, Yahoo, Elsevier and Yahoo have joined the NetChoice.org lobby that has issued a clarion call against open access that blurs the line between lies and gibberish....
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