Release early, often, and with rap music. Evan Roth is a maker of things with a specific interest in tools of empowerment, open source, and popular culture. We covered him and…
After more than four years of work from volunteers and a full-time team here at Sunlight we're immensely proud to launch the full Open States site with searchable legislative…
"We live in an open source world." For many readers of opensource.com, those words are probably a part of your daily life; in all likelihood, you take them for granted. They…
We've been anxiously awaiting our chance to mess with a MaKey MaKey after we wrote this post, and we finally got our hands on one just in time for Halloween. MaKey MaKey's are…
I had the great honor of meeting Dr. Vandana Shiva a few years ago. She talked to us about her life's work - saving seeds and protecting traditional knowledge in the farming…
Like him or not, you've got to be impressed by the quality of discourse that Jon Stewart adds to the national dialogue. Maybe this conversation with Bill Gates about the U.S…
So, how does an unknown anthropology professor from Kansas make a home movie on a “cheap computer” in his basement that beats out all the $3.6 million Super Bowl ads and…
The mashup and the meme aren't new, but there is an interesting video on YouTube about "stage 2" video mixes and their creative and social implications. The narrator describes…
In this short TED video clip, Yochai Benkler provides a useful framing of what he terms “social production.” In the past, Benkler argues, prominent transactional frameworks…
There are many reasons to pursue a college education, but getting a good job is the top priority for most college graduates. The value of a degree program is closely tied to…
Something caught my attention in this story by Phil Shapiro. It was something he said in the video presentation he made--as he was describing what Twitter is and what people…
Want to thank everyone who came to my session and who sent me wonderful feedback from both the keynote and the session. I was thrilled to see ZDnet wrote a piece about the…