Just a quick note to thank the few people who asked to see the final version of my MA thesis “No One Knows Everything: Harold Innis and Open Source”. I’ve added the final PDF to the page that also has the table of contents and links to an earlier draft version. here.
I’d love to [...]

When we started Open blogs were barely becoming cool. People still laugh at the word sometimes, and then ask shyly what a blog is.
And it seemed as though there was a great deal of writing on the web about napster, the kazaa network, friendster, or blogs, or even email, or instant messaging; lots of writing [...]

So, I’ve been asked to speak for a half an hour at CRIM this thursday at 6pm about Open.touchbasic.com
in relation to open source. I’ve begun sketching out my notes to see what they look like, and to be able to pass them along to Elran so he can help me fill in some more [...]

One forum I like and often check in on is the Iraqi Linux User Group, another is The Fashion Spot. One I post on a lot is the Publisher Database and another is Open Forums. All of these gather people from around the world in conversation and strategy sharing. These layers of dialogue are layers [...]

Before I encountered open source there was so much I couldn’t grasp about computers, networks, and the Internet. Because I couldn’t really see them. Their power and their limitations were only dimly outlined while the core of what they are was closed. Learning how a computer works by seeing the progress of its processes [...]