- Systeme D: ShareAlike considered harmful for geodata
- Describes some problems that arise from using a Creative Commons ShareAlike license for geodata.
- What Contracts Can’t Do: The Limits of Private Ordering in Facilitating a Creative Commons by Niva Elkin-Koren
- “Creative Commons is a non-profit U.S. based organization that operates a licensing platform to promote free use of creative works. The idea is to facilitate the release of creative works under generous license terms that would make works available for sharing and reuse. Creative Commons advocates the use of copyrights in a rather subversive way that would ultimately change their meaning.
The paper expresses a skeptical view of this worthy pursuit. While I share Creative Commons’ concern with copyright fundamentalism, which inevitably leads to the propertization of everything of value, I am more skeptical of its strategy. The paper explores the legal strategy of Creative Commons and analyzes its potential for enhancing the sharing, distribution and (re)use of creative works.”
- “Creative Commons is a non-profit U.S. based organization that operates a licensing platform to promote free use of creative works. The idea is to facilitate the release of creative works under generous license terms that would make works available for sharing and reuse. Creative Commons advocates the use of copyrights in a rather subversive way that would ultimately change their meaning.
- Quantum Celebration [Tattoo] | The Loom
- Best tattoo ever.
- The Crowd-Sourced Reading List | The Loom | Discover Magazine
- Carl Zimmer’s list of great science writing. I’d add Steven Pinker’s “The Language Instinct” to his list of books.
- A Clockwork Black: i was trying to avoid this
- Some of the early history of Amazon EC2.
- Science in the open » Best practice for data availability – the debate starts…well over there really
- Cameron Neylon summarizes many of the issues around data and licenses.
- Bossa
- Developed by the same group that did SETI@Home (Boinc): “Bossa is an open-source software framework for distributed thinking – the use of volunteers on the Internet to perform tasks that use human cognition, knowledge, or intelligence.
Bossa minimizes the effort of creating and operating a distributed thinking project. It provides a project web site, hosted on your Linux server, where volunteers go to perform tasks and to interact with other volunteers. All you need to supply are PHP scripts to generate, show, and handle tasks. “
- Developed by the same group that did SETI@Home (Boinc): “Bossa is an open-source software framework for distributed thinking – the use of volunteers on the Internet to perform tasks that use human cognition, knowledge, or intelligence.
- Williams Math/Stat blog
- The entire department of mathematics and statistics at Williams College has a blog.
- Frank Morgan: blog
- Blog from Frank Morgan, whose book on geometric measure theory I read and enjoyed many years ago.
- Education – Change.org: Snark Attack: UCLA Research Dissing Technology Bombs
- Entertaining and thoughtful response to a recent study published in Science: “Is Technology Producing a Decline in Critical Thinking and Analysis?”
- E. Kowalski’s blog › Comments on mathematics, mostly.
- Another astonishing mathematical blog.
- The Accidental Mathematician
- Blog from Izabella Laba, a mathematician at UBC.
- Consensus Protocols: Paxos at Paper Trail
- Useful overview of the Paxos consensus protocol, as used by Google’s Chubby lock system.
- Life at Wal-Mart – Boing Boing
- Interesting story of working at Wal-Mart from Charles Platt.
- On new modes of mathematical collaboration « What Is Research?
- Points out many of the flaws with online tools as ways of approaching mathematical collaboration.
- Questions of procedure « Gowers’s Weblog
- Tim Gowers’ rules for his ongoing experiment in massive collaboration in mathematics, the Polymath Project.
- Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Open Data Openness and Licensing
- Excellent thoughtful discussion of open data and licensing. Three points where I disagree: (1) the article underrates the problems that may be caused by licensing incompatibilities – witness all the problems this has caused in the open source world, where the commons has fragmented; (2) the article takes for granted that scientists are going to want open licenses – I don’t see that this is necessarily true, certainly if current norms are encoded in the license; and (3) the article implicitly assumes that the license (not the norm) is how enforcement will be handled, yet I think there is little evidence to suggest that this is true in academic science, where norms are far more often the remedy of choice.
- How Not to Lose Face on Facebook, for Professors
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