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Seeds have much in common with code.  Indeed, I wrote an entire book about how genomics parallels the world of software.  In particular, t...

Already it's clear that one of the hot tech topics of 2012 will be "The Internet of Things" – the idea that even the most mu...

The oceans belong to everyone - well, more or less. That is, they form a classic commons. But of course, that fact doesn't stop people...

The concept of the commons derives from common land. This still lives on in England, in the form of commons - like Clapham Common - and as ...

I was invited to give a talk at two recent conferences, the Berlin Commons Conference , and FSCONS 2010 . It's generally a pleasure to ...

Regular readers of this blog will know that the commons has been a major theme here for some years, since it offers an extremely fruitful wa...

I've been writing about all kinds of openness and sharing on this blog nearly five years now. Before that, I had been covering free sof...

One of the core reasons why sharing works is that it spreads the effort, and avoids the constant re-invention of the wheel. One area that se...

As regular readers will know, I regard the concept of the commons as an increasingly important one, not least because it pulls together thre...

Talking of commons, I was reading David Bollier's Viral Spiral recently, probably the best book about the rise of the commons as a new...

As its name suggests, a commons is an outgrowth of things held in common, like common land. This has been extended to the digital sphere wi...

Alongside the UK's Tom Watson , New Zealand's Clare Curran is shaping up as one of the leading net-savvy politicians in the world. ...

One of the main impulses behind this blog is looking at the ways the ideas behind free software are being applied in other areas. Another m...

Wow: this is the best single post I have ever read on the commons (and I've read a few): The commons as a common paradigm for social mo...

It's significant that books about the commons are starting to appear more frequently now. Here's one that came out six months ago:...

One of the things that I have felt for a while is that mainstream economics isn't really the best way to look at free software, or any o...

One of the great knock-on benefits of Elinor Ostrom sharing the Nobel prize for Economics is that the concept of the commons is getting the ...

As long-suffering readers of this blog will have noticed, I rather like the concept of the commons. As well as being good in itself, it als...

As I wrote two years ago, one of the most worrying aspects of bird flu (remember that?) was that virus sequences were not being shared well...

This is a fab use of pooled images combined with automation: Flickr hosts a wide range of beautiful images, but a new project built on top ...