In November, Amazon won a few good enemies by scrapping public domain texts from Project Gutenberg’s database, wrapping them in DRM, and then selling the books without a cent or a thank you to the project they’re ripped from. “Is this legal? Yes. Is it…
From Floss Manuals: An Open Web The Web is Closed. The Future is Open. “As much as we love the open Web, we’re abandoning it.” —Chris Anderson, WIRED Magazine The Web was meant to be Everything. As the Internet as a whole assumes an increasingly…
There’s a risk of making a fetish of process over product, of the act of collaboration over the artifact that results from it. How important is it that a product was produced through an open, distributed network if, in the end, it serves the interests…
http://wall.fabricatorz.com/ I’m locked in a room with six crazed writers to crank out an ambitious publication, “An Open Web.” The sprint, facilitated by Adam Hyde of FLOSS Manuals and commissioned by the transmediale, sits in the penthouse of the window/screen-filled Bauhaus property of Collegium Hungaricum…
And now for the folks that like their info turbo-charged with data in a fetching layout (who doesn’t?): an infographic from the blog promotional codes, found via #collcons. Update: It builds off of a study by Shareable Magazine and Latitude Research called The New Sharing…