11 month ago
Rod Begbie : My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress) - US Library of Congress + Flickr == FTW! LoC uploads photos from their collection to Flickr, sharing them with the world, then Flickr users can update the metadata, improving their usefulness. Everyone's a winner. [via] #
adamrg : My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress) - I'm still fascinated by this project -- why did it take so long, I wonder.
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25 month ago
mbertier : Google and Creative Commons - Because of the important work Creative Commons accomplished over the past year, Google has decided again to donate $30,000 to their cause. Here's an update on some of the awesome work they've been doing: [via] #
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Most Common Denominator - This is the opposite of dumbing down. And one of the main themes of this blog is that this kind of productive collaboration should be easier within Intranets than across the Internet. Enterprise 2.0, in other words, should be at least as powerful as Web
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30 month ago
Linkorama : The Wealth of Networks seminar - Great complment to Benkler's book
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Power of a Knowledge Commons - Tech businesses and scientists alike are discovering that the marketization of academic research has some serious downsides, especially for basic research. IP restrictions are preventing researchers from trading information, collaborating and innovating.
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38 month ago
Linkorama : IP Meets Communications - We're moving from the conceit of owning information to the conceit of owning the public internet itself – or, in other words, the conceit of owning flows of information."
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39 month ago
Linkorama : Open Content Alliance - The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia
Simon Willison : Open Content Alliance - Their website.
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39 month ago
WillPate : Queen Street Commons - Social, business commons on PEI
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40 month ago
WillPate : Queen Street Commons - The Third Place International? - The QSC is going well and the model is being tested now in other cities. Vancouver could really use one of these
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41 month ago
Linkorama : Contribution Economy - "Wikipedia clearly makes the world better off," says Cook, an enthusiast of this new tendency towards volunteerism. "But economists measure dollars. People generally assume that GDP and quality of life go up together. Maybe a chunk of the economy is going
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41 month ago
Linkorama : Open and collaborative production - Benkler says "for the first time since the industrial revolution,the most important means and components of core economies are in the hands of the population at large"
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