Decoding Liberation

The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies ("an online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, teach, support, an...

The FSF makes a frustratingly compelling case for rejecting Apple's latest palmtop-that-happens-to-make-calls. I might, just might, hav...

Benjamin Mako Hill has written a very good review of Decoding Liberation in Minds and Machines, Vol. 18, No. 2, June 2008, pp. 297–299 . M...

An interesting interview with Walter Bender over at OpenEducation.net . Of particular interest are his comments on the interaction between F...

A strange article over at ZDNet , fretting about Linux's immaturity, and salivating over the possibility of Solaris and Linux merging be...

I'm not sure (by a long margin) what the impact of John Duffy's analysis of the supposed unconstitutional appointments of patent jud...

Biella Coleman has an interesting post at her blog that resists the notion (recently floated by Jonathan Zittrain) that hackers are not pol...

Some time ago, Gavin Baker of OpenStudents.org (amongst other things), asked me to write a guest post on their blog about my publishing ex...

Here is some trenchant commentary by James Grimmelmann on the efforts of the study group convened by the Copyright Office and Library of Co...

Our Birds-of-a-Feather session at the SIGCSE conference went off well to say the least. Attendance was spectacular: we were expecting about...

An interesting post by Jon Garfunkel over at Civilities , provocatively titled "Oppressiveness by Software" (the piece is in respo...

Some exciting news from the arts . . . our colleagues over at the Dance Notation Bureau have alerted us to the fact that Merce Cunningham a...

Team Decoding Liberation will be at the SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education in Portland, OR next week; I think it'...

The problems I noted with peer review in my post below are, perhaps, too well-known to most people in not just the sciences, but the humanit...