OnTheCommons.org » Open-Source Automobile Design?
Eric von Hippel (Democratizing Innovation) has shown that user-generated innovation is, in fact, quite common in certain niche manufacturing sectors, especially extreme sports equipment. ...
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http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1720
Eric von Hippel (Democratizing Innovation) has shown that user-generated innovation is, in fact, quite common in certain niche manufacturing sectors, especially extreme sports equipment. ...
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http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1720
Gautam Ghosh - Management Consultant: Using Blogs to Brand Yourself for Career Growth
The best way to build a blog and your own career-related brand is to produce great content, getting people to find you and connecting to them and investing in building a community.
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http://gauteg.blogspot.com/2008/05/using-blogs-to-brand-yourself-for.html
The best way to build a blog and your own career-related brand is to produce great content, getting people to find you and connecting to them and investing in building a community.
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http://gauteg.blogspot.com/2008/05/using-blogs-to-brand-yourself-for.html
scientific study about Debian governance and organization / Linux blog / Tech Force - Linux Blog
By rewarding merit with greater status, responsibility, or opportunities to enhance their own development, production communities can satisfy a contributor’s need for recognition and re...
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http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/scientific_study_about_debian_governan...
By rewarding merit with greater status, responsibility, or opportunities to enhance their own development, production communities can satisfy a contributor’s need for recognition and re...
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http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/scientific_study_about_debian_governan...
Leadership's Online Labs
Tens of millions of people are honing their leadership skills in multiplayer online games. The tools and techniques they’re using will change how leaders function tomorrow—and could m...
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http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?ml_action=get-ar...
Tens of millions of people are honing their leadership skills in multiplayer online games. The tools and techniques they’re using will change how leaders function tomorrow—and could m...
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http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?ml_action=get-ar...
When Wikipedia Is the Assignment :: Inside Higher Ed
Wikipedia [...] can be marshaled as a central component of a course’s syllabus rather than viewed as a resource to be banned or reluctantly tolerated.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/29/wikipedia
Wikipedia [...] can be marshaled as a central component of a course’s syllabus rather than viewed as a resource to be banned or reluctantly tolerated.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/29/wikipedia
Making Wikis Work for Scholars :: Inside Higher Ed
For all the hand-wringing over whether Wikipedia is a legitimate source for completing college assignments, some professors are quietly incorporating it into their classrooms and even the...
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/28/wiki
For all the hand-wringing over whether Wikipedia is a legitimate source for completing college assignments, some professors are quietly incorporating it into their classrooms and even the...
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/04/28/wiki
The Architecture of Participation
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3017
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3017
The Architecture of Eclipse
When you have tens to hundreds of developers then a lot of tried and true ideas of OOP simply break down and cannot scale.
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http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/the-architecture-of-eclipse
When you have tens to hundreds of developers then a lot of tried and true ideas of OOP simply break down and cannot scale.
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http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/the-architecture-of-eclipse
Virtual Collaboration: If You Can't Work Side-by-Side
Collaboration entails finding the right group of people [...] and providing them with an environment, tools, knowledge, training, process and facilitation to ensure they work together eff...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/03/18.html#a1083
Collaboration entails finding the right group of people [...] and providing them with an environment, tools, knowledge, training, process and facilitation to ensure they work together eff...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/03/18.html#a1083
Of course Tags Are Useful - Think Of It This Way
tags are just fun; people do it without a stick. Tags are about contributing something. Tags are about architectures of participation.
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http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000605.html
tags are just fun; people do it without a stick. Tags are about contributing something. Tags are about architectures of participation.
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http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000605.html
Cornucopia of Cooperation and Social Spillover
This is a lengthy rant where I suggest that Cornucopia production can be realized not just through cooperation in developing a resource, but building upon success in governing each other ...
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http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/01/22/cornucopia_of_cooperation_and_social_spillov...
This is a lengthy rant where I suggest that Cornucopia production can be realized not just through cooperation in developing a resource, but building upon success in governing each other ...
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http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/01/22/cornucopia_of_cooperation_and_social_spillov...
Attracting Developers to Your Platform
Some guidelines I wrote up last year for a company looking to attract developers to their platform.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/attracting_deve.html
Some guidelines I wrote up last year for a company looking to attract developers to their platform.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/05/attracting_deve.html
Wikis for Group Collaboration
[A wiki can be] an open, transparent, accessible hub of information used and created through the social interaction of a community of people inside your organization and all your outside ...
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http://blog.ctcevents.com/comments.php?id=12_0_1_0_C
[A wiki can be] an open, transparent, accessible hub of information used and created through the social interaction of a community of people inside your organization and all your outside ...
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http://blog.ctcevents.com/comments.php?id=12_0_1_0_C
We Need A New Information-Sharing Model for the Internet
I keep imagining some kind of emergent way to produce structured information, where a lot of people can put in little bits of time, and everyone benefits from the result.
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http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=113330
I keep imagining some kind of emergent way to produce structured information, where a lot of people can put in little bits of time, and everyone benefits from the result.
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http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=113330
Collaboration Requires Contribution
Both the development of communities and social capital requires reciprocity - the willingness to both take AND give -- to contribute.
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http://www.bloggingplanet.com/eng/index.php/2005/03/30/16-collaboration-requires-contribution
Both the development of communities and social capital requires reciprocity - the willingness to both take AND give -- to contribute.
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http://www.bloggingplanet.com/eng/index.php/2005/03/30/16-collaboration-requires-contribution
The Power Of Us
[Disparate innovations as the Internet, mobile devices, and the feedback system on eBay are] the underpinnings of a new economic order. These are like the stock companies and liability in...
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_25/b3938601.htm
[Disparate innovations as the Internet, mobile devices, and the feedback system on eBay are] the underpinnings of a new economic order. These are like the stock companies and liability in...
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_25/b3938601.htm
On open development, and what makes it tick
People will contribute their time to develop something that is of use to them in their daily lives. Since most of our lives are spent at work [...], this effectively translates into peopl...
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http://shollersmusings.blogspot.com/2005/05/on-open-development-and-what-makes-it.html
People will contribute their time to develop something that is of use to them in their daily lives. Since most of our lives are spent at work [...], this effectively translates into peopl...
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http://shollersmusings.blogspot.com/2005/05/on-open-development-and-what-makes-it.html
Gartner, IDC - it's over, move on
Analyst companies like Gartner and IDC are trading off brand equity rather than as genuine purveyors of wisdom. Now we have a new way of acquiring information and knowledge. Does it spell...
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http://www.bazaarz.com/archives/2005/06/gartner_idc_-_i.php
Analyst companies like Gartner and IDC are trading off brand equity rather than as genuine purveyors of wisdom. Now we have a new way of acquiring information and knowledge. Does it spell...
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http://www.bazaarz.com/archives/2005/06/gartner_idc_-_i.php
Web Content by and for the Masses
The Internet's new phase will shift power away from old-line media and software companies while rapidly bringing about an age of computerized "augmentation" by blending the skills of tens...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/technology/29content.html
The Internet's new phase will shift power away from old-line media and software companies while rapidly bringing about an age of computerized "augmentation" by blending the skills of tens...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/technology/29content.html
Why Newspapers Are Betting on Audience Participation
But with gloomy financial forecasts and declines in circulation, some papers are starting to see participatory journalism as their hope for reconnecting with their audiences.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/business/media/04paper.html
But with gloomy financial forecasts and declines in circulation, some papers are starting to see participatory journalism as their hope for reconnecting with their audiences.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/04/business/media/04paper.html
The 21st-century organization
To raise the productivity of professionals, big corporations must change their organizational structures dramatically, retaining the best of the traditional hierarchy while acknowledging ...
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http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.aspx?ar=1628&L2=18&L3=30&srid=21&gp=1
To raise the productivity of professionals, big corporations must change their organizational structures dramatically, retaining the best of the traditional hierarchy while acknowledging ...
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http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/article_page.aspx?ar=1628&L2=18&L3=30&srid=21&gp=1
Professional Open Source
Marc and others have called the BSD-style license the “greedy vendor license” because vendors can make money off your work. They say GPL is the answer. But I have another name for GPL...
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http://www.eclipsezone.com/archives/2005/07/14/professional-open-source
Marc and others have called the BSD-style license the “greedy vendor license” because vendors can make money off your work. They say GPL is the answer. But I have another name for GPL...
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http://www.eclipsezone.com/archives/2005/07/14/professional-open-source
Open-Source Exuberance
The new breed of hybrid commercial, open-source startups depends on open-source programmers to contribute and test code, and to bring new ideas, so winning the respect of the fickle open-...
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165700923
The new breed of hybrid commercial, open-source startups depends on open-source programmers to contribute and test code, and to bring new ideas, so winning the respect of the fickle open-...
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165700923
Innovation Best Practices
Visible senior executive sponsorship, diversity within teams and across the initiative, cross-business participation, latitude granted to the innovators – acceptance of failure, adequa...
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http://www.ottergroup.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/29/983898.html
Visible senior executive sponsorship, diversity within teams and across the initiative, cross-business participation, latitude granted to the innovators – acceptance of failure, adequa...
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http://www.ottergroup.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/29/983898.html
"The Myth of Open-Source"
No one is going to work for free. That's the myth of open-source. [New open-source startups are] trying to buy distribution. And maybe they'll succeed, because if you give something away ...
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2005/tc2005078_5465_tc121.htm
No one is going to work for free. That's the myth of open-source. [New open-source startups are] trying to buy distribution. And maybe they'll succeed, because if you give something away ...
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2005/tc2005078_5465_tc121.htm
It will pay to be creative, nimble in the 'conceptual age'
The people who will do best in this economy are those who don't just take and give orders but also move smoothly between boundaries, like the technical guru who understands marketing or t...
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http://bostonworks.boston.com/globe/climb/archives/071005.shtml
The people who will do best in this economy are those who don't just take and give orders but also move smoothly between boundaries, like the technical guru who understands marketing or t...
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http://bostonworks.boston.com/globe/climb/archives/071005.shtml
Drive-By Data & Web 2.0
For most people their contributions will come because they are in the middle of living their life -- and living throws off information. [...] relying on the edge to consciously and consci...
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http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/001502.html
For most people their contributions will come because they are in the middle of living their life -- and living throws off information. [...] relying on the edge to consciously and consci...
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http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/001502.html
In Defense of Free
Free is a great way to make money. You just have to know how you are going to get paid for being free.
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http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/07/in_defense_of_f.html
Free is a great way to make money. You just have to know how you are going to get paid for being free.
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http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/07/in_defense_of_f.html
The Cornucopia of the Commons: How to get volunteer labor
Increasing the value of the database by adding more information is a natural by-product of using the tool for your own benefit. No altruistic sharing motives need be present, especially s...
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http://www.bricklin.com/cornucopia.htm
Increasing the value of the database by adding more information is a natural by-product of using the tool for your own benefit. No altruistic sharing motives need be present, especially s...
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http://www.bricklin.com/cornucopia.htm
Software revolutionaries get a haircut
Merging with the corporate mainstream is the logical next step. It signals the success of open-source pioneers in reshaping the software landscape, not the end of a dream.
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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/888a41a4-0a03-11da-b870-00000e2511c8.html
Merging with the corporate mainstream is the logical next step. It signals the success of open-source pioneers in reshaping the software landscape, not the end of a dream.
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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/888a41a4-0a03-11da-b870-00000e2511c8.html
All That (Content) Glitters is Not Gold
I think that there is tremendous opportunity for significant innovation and investment in [user generated content]. But professional content-generation – “traditional” media – is ...
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http://www.genuinevc.com/archives/2005/08/all_that_conten_1.htm
I think that there is tremendous opportunity for significant innovation and investment in [user generated content]. But professional content-generation – “traditional” media – is ...
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http://www.genuinevc.com/archives/2005/08/all_that_conten_1.htm
Money Makes the World Go Round—Or Does It?
In the contribution economy, companies can help people, people can help companies, and people can help other people without exchanging any money. [...] How do we measure [this] economic i...
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http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,1088315,00.html
In the contribution economy, companies can help people, people can help companies, and people can help other people without exchanging any money. [...] How do we measure [this] economic i...
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http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,1088315,00.html
Do you really need both ends of the curve?
Successful community sites like LiveJournal, Flickr and MySpace [have] content on top of community. [...] Long Tail content creates a stickiness that can take a social site beyond the lif...
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http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/07/do_you_really_n.html
Successful community sites like LiveJournal, Flickr and MySpace [have] content on top of community. [...] Long Tail content creates a stickiness that can take a social site beyond the lif...
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http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/07/do_you_really_n.html
There Is No Such Thing as User-Generated Content
This distinction is subtle but very important. Don’t expect your users to generate content. Instead, support their efforts to communicate.
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http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/there-is-no-such-thing-as-user-generated-content
This distinction is subtle but very important. Don’t expect your users to generate content. Instead, support their efforts to communicate.
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http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/there-is-no-such-thing-as-user-generated-content
Why Is Tagging So Hard?
[For Typepad, integrating other web 2.0 services is] a lot of work without much benefit to them. It's almost an advertisement for an open source platform like WordPress [or Firefox!] whe...
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http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/08/why_is_tagging_.html
[For Typepad, integrating other web 2.0 services is] a lot of work without much benefit to them. It's almost an advertisement for an open source platform like WordPress [or Firefox!] whe...
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http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/08/why_is_tagging_.html
Open Source, Ecosystems, The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and a Random Belgian Mathematician
[The vitally of an ecosystem is primarily determined by] the ability to encourage new infusions of energy from parties outside the system in question.
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http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000861.html
[The vitally of an ecosystem is primarily determined by] the ability to encourage new infusions of energy from parties outside the system in question.
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http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000861.html
What Business Can Learn from Open Source
People working for love often surpass those working for money. [... Open Source and blogging] show us what real work looks like.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html
People working for love often surpass those working for money. [... Open Source and blogging] show us what real work looks like.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html
SUSE opens to yawns
Given the fact that it's a community that drives better in the case of open source, first-mover advantage may actually be more important here than in the commercial world.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=409&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Given the fact that it's a community that drives better in the case of open source, first-mover advantage may actually be more important here than in the commercial world.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=409&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software
Open Source is more efficient than other economic paradigms of software development for producing software that does not differentiate its user's business.
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http://perens.com/Articles/Economic.html
Open Source is more efficient than other economic paradigms of software development for producing software that does not differentiate its user's business.
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http://perens.com/Articles/Economic.html
Amazon Reviewers
an act of philosophical exhibitionism can help people organize their thoughts or simply help them feel they're contributing to the common good.
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http://www.onfocus.com/2005/08/3725
an act of philosophical exhibitionism can help people organize their thoughts or simply help them feel they're contributing to the common good.
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http://www.onfocus.com/2005/08/3725
Blogging, the Web and the Emergence of Collaborative Knowledge
I find it truly fascinating that far from being, as I thought, a mere exercise in "narcissism", blogging ends up being a primal, noble - even altruistic -- experience, showing humanity at...
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http://irvingwb.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/blogging_the_we.html
I find it truly fascinating that far from being, as I thought, a mere exercise in "narcissism", blogging ends up being a primal, noble - even altruistic -- experience, showing humanity at...
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http://irvingwb.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/blogging_the_we.html
The Psychology of Information, or Why We Don't Share Stuff
what impedes the sharing of information in most organizations is our personal and shared culture, rather than inadequacies in technology, knowledge management, or learning programs.
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/09/19.html#a1278
what impedes the sharing of information in most organizations is our personal and shared culture, rather than inadequacies in technology, knowledge management, or learning programs.
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/09/19.html#a1278
Seeking balance in open source
The voluntary nature of open source doesn't lend itself as readily to consumer-oriented technology as the proprietary model, which uses financial incentives to orient developers towards t...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1484#more-1484
The voluntary nature of open source doesn't lend itself as readily to consumer-oriented technology as the proprietary model, which uses financial incentives to orient developers towards t...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1484#more-1484
Open Source: Still No Free Lunch
Occasionally, you can get good stuff for free, because some kind souls develop, test, document, package, distribute, and market something useful out of the goodness of their hearts, with ...
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http://www.illuminata.com/perspectives/?p=73
Occasionally, you can get good stuff for free, because some kind souls develop, test, document, package, distribute, and market something useful out of the goodness of their hearts, with ...
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http://www.illuminata.com/perspectives/?p=73
Why Some Medical Spending Should Count as Investment
An extra 10% of birth weight raises earnings by about 1%. 10% more birth weight is about as valuable in the labor market as a quarter of a year of education.
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2005/12/why_some_medica.htm...
An extra 10% of birth weight raises earnings by about 1%. 10% more birth weight is about as valuable in the labor market as a quarter of a year of education.
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2005/12/why_some_medica.htm...
Dark Matter
U.S. assets abroad are really worth a lot more than we thought, because the official calculation doesn't include the value of the intellectual property.
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2005/12/dark_matter.html?ca...
U.S. assets abroad are really worth a lot more than we thought, because the official calculation doesn't include the value of the intellectual property.
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2005/12/dark_matter.html?ca...
How to Make Wealth
If you want to create wealth then you should be especially skeptical about any plan that centers on things you like doing. That is where your idea of what's valuable is least likely to co...
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http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
If you want to create wealth then you should be especially skeptical about any plan that centers on things you like doing. That is where your idea of what's valuable is least likely to co...
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http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
The Del.icio.us Lesson - Putting Personal Value Before Network Effect
Personal benefit should come before network effect - it’s definitely something you should bear in mind if you’re creating a social app.
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http://mashable.com/2005/12/26/the-delicious-lesson-putting-personal-value-before-network-ef...
Personal benefit should come before network effect - it’s definitely something you should bear in mind if you’re creating a social app.
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http://mashable.com/2005/12/26/the-delicious-lesson-putting-personal-value-before-network-ef...
Web 2.0, Participation and E-democracy
If we are to go beyond mere consultation, where people are invited to give their views on a limited set of issues that are fed back into a process that remains largely opaque and inaccess...
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http://www.headshift.com/archives/002787.cfm
If we are to go beyond mere consultation, where people are invited to give their views on a limited set of issues that are fed back into a process that remains largely opaque and inaccess...
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http://www.headshift.com/archives/002787.cfm
New Media Deal, Part II - the We Media Deal
The more transparent the value exchange, the more willing you are to share your data.
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http://onlyonce.blogs.com/onlyonce/2006/01/new_media_deal_.html
The more transparent the value exchange, the more willing you are to share your data.
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http://onlyonce.blogs.com/onlyonce/2006/01/new_media_deal_.html