We recently sat down with Dr. Tony O'Driscoll, co-author of the book Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration, to talk about avatar…
If you use open source, you have no respect for intellectual property. Or at least, that’s what the International Intellectual Property Alliance seems to think. According to…
Earlier this week I wrote a post about some of the cultural challenges Wikipedia is facing as its contribution rate has slowed. The comments you made were fantastic, including…
I’ve had a number of career changes. I went from poetry to technology to metal sculpture to the Internet to biodiesel. And I must admit that although I have brushed against…
"Open source and open government are not the same," I've been reading recently. When discussing the role of open standards in open government transparency projects, Bob…
I believe that the future success for businesses to attract and retain top talent relies on a more open management and leadership approach. The workforce is evolving and the…
The internet has had a profound effect on many areas of commerce. One area the internet has not yet had a profound affect upon is how people are organized to perform work. We…
Deb Nicholson is worried about the future of our data. They're being stockpiled by organizations whose ability to protect them is diminishing, but whose ability to keep users…
If you're a civic hacker then you know nothing brings developers together like the shared experience of solving a hard problem. But for you, "solving problems" is probably…
Open source software and open source best-practices have become truly ubiquitous in the business world. Software used to be the new frontier, but open source software can be…
Open education innovator Sal Khan, MIT alumnus and founder of Khan Academy, gave the commencement address at MIT graduation ceremony on June 8, a speech that included both a…
The always-insightful Alex Reid has penned an essay " on the question of open peer review," which examines a draft white paper posted to Media Commons last week. The paper—…