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If I Had 50 Million Dollars
If I had any poetic talent, I would have done this in rhyming couplets set to the music of the Barenaked Ladies but sadly today you are left with my prose. Hum along with me anyway. If you work in the...
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Right Openness If You Meet the Open Guru on the Road, Kill Him
Let me start by saying how much I love Open Source software, peer production, the tide that raises all ships, Wikipedia, all things “open”. It is part of how I define myself. I love what happens when...
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The Open Data Cart and Twin Horses of Accountability and Innovation
Let me start by saying that the ideals of the Open Data movement: transparency; accountability; and, citizen innovation, are ones that I hold near to my heart. Further, I admire and respect many of...
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Reconciling Open Data and Privacy
Digital rights advocates have a hard time these days because the ability to manifest things online and the growth of online data have brought two “rights” into conflict. On one hand transparency and...
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In 2008, Jonathan Zittrain wrote a book called The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It. In it he argued that the runaway success of the Internet is also the cause of it being undermined, that...
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