Hans Kern Interviews Robert Steele for Rag ‘n Rock: World Brain II.0 or How We Should End Secrecy and Learn to Harness the Hive Mind

World Brain II.0 How We End Secrecy and Harness the Hive Mind Robert Steele is unusual for an American… he is clearly internationalist in his orientation. He has written a book that can bring us together in facing our greatest enemies: ignorance, poverty, and mistrust. Rear Admiral Hamit Gulemre Aybars, Turkish Navy (retired) A conversation …

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

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 …

Call for Nominations – Open Source Everything Conference in NYC 3-6 December 2015

Open Source Everything (OSE) OSE is a three day conference celebrating the culture and mind-set of open source by bringing together the vast network of ethical souls advancing openness in their fields to share information, inspire cross-sector collaboration, create new teams, networks and goals. For the first time in history: all the opens; UN and …