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The virtues of free are pretty inarguable, but advocating the open release of stuff inevitably begs the question: but how do you make a livi...

I'd come across TiddlyWiki before, but never really got what it was about.... On Open Enterprise blog .

One of the signs of a healthy ecosystem is that it is constantly expanding into new niches. Here's a new angle on opennes I hadn't ...

One of the reasons Twitter has taken off and become so popular (at least amongst sad people such as myself with nothing better to do) is th...

The Public Library of Science did not invent open access, but there's no doubt it took it to the next level : On the 13th of October in...

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This is what wikis were invented for: Dongdan Subway Station is an underground subway station on the Beijing Subway's Line 1 and Line 5...

Wikis were born under the Hawaiian sun (well, the name was), so perhaps it's appropriate that Sun should have set up its own wikis , in ...

One of the criticisms commonly levelled at free content is that it cannibalises existing paid-for content in a way that is economically unsu...

Given that it's clear what the source code of democracy is - its laws - an obvious thing to try would be to apply open source technique...

Not, alas, open source as far as I can tell : IBM Lotus Quickr is team collaboration software that helps you share content, collaborate and ...

Another thought-provoking post from Jamais Cascio: In fact, the Book & Seed Vault may prove to function better as a model and instructi...

Rather better than my curt dismissal below is this more rigorous explanation of why copyright should not be perpetual. Interestingly, it...

Here's a meme that pops up now and again, an open source film . But this one comes with a twist - it uses a wiki for the script: This ...

Here's a mildly hopeful development : The government is about to start opening up the process of reviewing patents to the modern font of...

I quite often flag up big wins for OpenOffice.org, but it can be hard to get the big picture from these small pieces. That makes this wiki ...

Well, it had to happen : So is the novel immune from being swept up into the fashion for collaborative activity? Well, this is what we are g...

A new one to me: 1: What is “Open Healthcare”? The nature of the Internet as a means of disseminating health media is changing. The first w...

If the name Dan Bricklin means nothing to you, you obviously missed out on the PC revolution's prehistory (or maybe I'm just showin...

I've written a number of times about Citizendium, Larry Sanger's fascinating project to create a new kind of user-generated online r...