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Will the Power Laws of Networks Lead to Even Greater Income Inequality?

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Following the Aspen Institute’s Information Technology Roundtable, David Bollier explores the “power curve” distributions that result on open network platforms. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: Open Cities, Open Education, OpenNews

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An urban prototyping manifesto, the Maker movement takes to the National Mall, a community for open source journalism, and more in this week in sharing. Read more »

The Artistic Case for Abolishing Copyright

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Author and musician Mat Callahan argues that copyright hurts musicians while prioritizing intellectual property over open access. Read more »

GM Uses OnStar To Embrace Car Sharing

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By sharing its OnStar technology, General Motors will make it even easier for millions of Americans to loan out their cars. Read more »

Blinded by Open Science

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Shareable advisor Bernice Yeung pointed me to this article in the magazine Science:

History is replete with stories of scientists who hid their ideas from their competition; consider Leonardo da Vinci, whose odd backward writing may . Read more »

Making Government an Open Platform

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Open culture advocates, technical developers and media converged Thursday night at the San Francisco City hall for the latest updates on the open government and open311 initiatives. Read more »

Join the Open University Campaign

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A lot of cool things get started in dorms, and this is no exception. Students for Free Culture (SFC) just launched their Open University Campaign. SFC defines an open university as one in which:


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