Previously, I’ve explained what openness means relative to a community rather than the license governing its content. In short an open content community, as …

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In a parenthetical in my dissertation I note that when I speak of the men in the history of reference works I am being unfortunately …

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My presentation for WikiSym 2007 is now up, including a link to the abstract and paper. I fear it’s a little wordy by I …

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The recent discussions about the deployment of features for supporting vetted/approved pages and trusted authors, starting with German Wikipedia and perhaps expanding to the …

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I find “giving” grades as a teacher to be as troublesome as getting them when I was a student. Alfie Kohn (1999) in his book …

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I recently read Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture. Keen provides an easy to read …

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At this year’s Wikimania conference I was talking to Cormac about my dissertation and how at the beginning of the 20th century some like …

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It is with interest that I’ve noted Lawrence Lessig’s announcement a career shift away from his work on restoring sanity to the copyright …

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I recently finished Peter Heather’s (2006) The Fall of the Roman Empire. This popular, though no less rigorous, history is widely praised. The narrative …

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One of my favorite categories in my “field notes” mindmap is that of “zeitgeist.” Very little of this material will actually find its way into …

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