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Typer Neylon: Elsevier Loses Its Mind – Seeks to Embargo Knowledge for Four Years

Access, Data, Knowledge
Typer Neylon
Typer Neylon

Defend the Right to Share Your Work

Academic publisher Elsevier recently changed their rules on how authors may share their work. Authors were previously allowed to share their manuscripts through repositories immediately upon publication; now they may have to wait up to 4 years before doing so. The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), a group dedicated to open access to publicly-funded work, has put together a statement where individuals and institutions can collectively ask Elsevier to reconsider this action. Please add your name and help raise awareness of the struggle to keep knowledge freely available to all. Learn more.

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Tomasz Tunguz: The Disruptive Effect of Open Source Startups

#OSE Open Source Everything, Software
Tomasz Tunguz
Tomasz Tunguz

The Disruptive Effect of Open Source Startups

Open source is a disruptive distribution strategy. It allows potential users and buyers of a software to try it, evaluate it, and understand exactly how it works because the source code is freely available. Open source companies market to developers exactly how developers would like to be marketed to – with code.

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Melissa Sterry: Interview on Bionic City

Design
Melissa Sterry
Melissa Sterry

DESIGN TRUTH

EXTRACT

You say that humanity “is a fresher at the University of Life”. How important do you think it is to decode nature before coding technology?

In my experience, a sizeable quantity of that which is positioned as a ‘solution’ to a current or anticipated future problem is flawed, and sometimes deeply so. Often the flaws are technical, as for example with a great many ‘green building’ proposals that involve sticking trees on balconies and roofs.  . . .  Five decades later and the same mistakes are being made. Not only that, but we’re arguably seeing even greater levels of ignore in regard of science.

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CounterPunch: Robert Steele: A Fantasy On the Seventh Day — How to Fast Track Extreme Democracy in the USA

Articles & Chapters, Crowd-Sourcing, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics
counterpunch squareA Fantasy: On the Seventh Day

DAY ONE

The fat sweaty Capitol Hill policeman was in lust. The perfect babe was walking past him toward the steps of The Capitol, wearing only a T-shirt and the shortest of shorts, carrying only a cell phone and a jug. The possibilities of a wet T-shirt fully occupied his very small mind.

Then she exploded in flames. She had sat down, poured the jug of what turned out to be gasoline over her body, filmed her short manifesto for broadcast to YouTube, and lit a match. Here’s what she said:

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 SHORT URL to CounterPunch page: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Fantasy

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Yoda: Open Source Everything Wiki

#OSE Open Source Everything
Got Crowd? BE the Force!
Got Crowd? BE the Force!

Rise, you will.

Below is the first announcement of an Open Source Everything wiki facilitating easy comprehensive documentation and outreach across the nine major open sub-categories listed below.

1. Open Data   .   2. Open Governance   .   3. Open Health   .   4. Open Infrastructures   .   5. Open Intelligence   .   6. Open Manufacturing   .   7. Open Provisioning   .   8. Open Software   .   9. Open Space

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