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Duke University
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CALL TO ACTION: Let's stop the spill the open source way
Each day as I drive to work and hear the radio updates on the unfortunate situation in the Gulf of...
Tony O'Driscoll
26 May 2010
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Social production as a new source of economic value creation
In this short TED video clip, Yochai Benkler provides a useful framing of what he terms “social...
Tony O'Driscoll
03 Mar 2010
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From IP network to broadcast network: Understanding the new media landscape
So, how does an unknown anthropology professor from Kansas make a home movie on a “cheap computer”...
Tony O'Driscoll
08 Feb 2010
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27 May 2010
CALL TO ACTION: Let's stop the spill the open source way
Dan, Thanks for your comments. Even if the "Top Kill" works, and BP manages to corral the first SOS (i.e. Stop the Oil Spill) there is still a second SOS which is (i.e. Save our Shores) that likely could benefit...
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26 May 2010
CALL TO ACTION: Let's stop the spill the open source way
Colin, ABC reports that BP has also set up a Tip Line and has also received over 20,000 ideas via e-mail. I think the issue here is not about ideation but about leveraging the opensource way to aggregate these ideas into a...
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