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Yochai Benkler - The Wealth of Networks - Yale University Press
This came out while I was gone and attracted a wide readership. It's a long read, but worth the while. This, for example, echoes my own thoughts: "The networked information economy improves the practical capacities of individuals along three dimensions: (1) it improves their capacity to do more for and by themselves; (2) it enhances their capacity to do more in loose commonality with others, without being constrained to organize their relationship through a price system or in traditional hierarchical models of social and economic organization; and (3) it improves the capacity of individua From
OLDaily on May 10, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Tom Hoffman - Filtr Chekr Ready for Beta Testing - Tuttle SVC
Tom Hoffman is performing a useful service by setting up a 'grey list' of sites (including this one) that ought not be filtered by school filtering systems, but which are nonetheless filtered. You can check the filtering policies at your own institution by running the Python script he is beta testing. Will Richardson
comments, "Teacher and student Internet access at home in this district is nearly 100 percent. Does it really make sense to block literally hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of potentially worthwhile, sa From
OLDaily on May 10, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..
Robin Peek - The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 - Information Today
Although it is still a proposal, the American "Federal Research Public Access Act" is creating some discussion, including this article that enthuses, "One of the greatest events in the history of Open Access may have just happened." This is certainly an overstatement, though the act - which would require open access to academic papers funded by large U.S. granting agencies - would certainly have an impact. The act may still be in for a rough ride, though, as evidenced by this
unfavorable review in the New York Times. "If the articles a From
OLDaily on May 10, 2006 at 4:45 p.m..