A draft of my paper on how newcomers are socialized into open technical communities is now available. Before I could consider the “socialization features” I …

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In the Sound Factory episode of MTV’s True Life a Long Island bartender wanted to become a Manhattan bartender as his first step towards …

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A recent CNN article the entitled “Norwegian hacker cracks iTunes code” tells the the story of Jon Johansen’s latest effort, QTFairUse:

The new program …

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Tim Bray notes much discussion about taxonomies for organizing one’s blog entries, akin to those categories you see on the left of this blog …

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Peter Van Dijck has composed an interesting summary of the themes that arise in debates about the Semantic Web, including the recent discussion of Shirky …

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Today I attended two interesting media policy talks. The first was by Sarah Deutsch of Verizon discussing the legal cases against them for (rightfully) withholding …

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At the beginning of the year I mentioned how excited I was to find the book Beyond Majority Rule: Voteless Decisions in the Religious Society …

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In a class yesterday, someone pulled a “that’s basic Kuhn” on me. Granted, I prefaced my first comment to the class in a somewhat …

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People often expect a media to engender community: “I’m blogging but not getting enough comments!”, or “if I put up a Wiki, they will …

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In the continuing theme of socialization in graduate education, I recently read Processes of Socialization in American Graduate Schools, Making Elite Lawyers, and Scientific Elite …

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