Science Commons T-shirt Contest
The winner in our t-shirt contest. The background to the robot is a 2d barcode that de-references back to creativecommons.org, which I like a lot :-)...
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February 21, 2010
The winner in our t-shirt contest. The background to the robot is a 2d barcode that de-references back to creativecommons.org, which I like a lot :-)...
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February 19, 2010
Photo outside the Panton Arms pub in Cambridge, UK, licensed to the public under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike by jwyg (Jonathan Gray). Today marked the public announcement of a set of principles on how to treat data, from a legal...
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February 13, 2010
I'll start my final post on the Tech4Society conference by giving thanks to the Ashoka folks for getting me here to be a part of this conference. Most of the time, even in the developing world, I'm surrounded by digital...
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February 12, 2010
Getting ready to head up to Tech4Society's final day. I'm on a panel called the tipping point, about how to scale social entrepreneurial success beyond a local region or state. My instinct is to say "pack your suitcase and start...
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February 11, 2010
I did an interview recently where the author, clearly having done some homework, called out an old quote of mine arguing that ideas aren't like widgets or screws, that they're not industrial objets. I'd said that a long time ago,...
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February 1, 2010
I'm going to get re-starting blogging here this week, after a crazy few weeks of work at the day job. In the meantime, here's a few links to stuff I'm doing, reading, and writing. The team has been busy working...
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denialism blog 02.14.2012
respectful insolence 02.14.2012
uncertain principles 02.13.2012
confessions of a science librarian 02.13.2012
starts with a bang! 02.13.2012