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Three years ago I wrote a post on the importance of a tamper-resistant system for government documents , and another a year ago. Government...
Is it ethical or sustainable for businesses to make money from iconic cultural brands without giving anything back?
On diversity in children's media. Worth talking about with regard to Big Six publishing homogenization.
Startups disproprtionately create apps for the young and well-off… and they’re missing out on profits and innovation by ignoring other groups.
During Open Source Bridge last month, I went to a talk by Brandon Harris about the Wikipedia community. The focus of the talk was going to be on reasons why the number of people contributing to Wik…
We’re surrounded by data—more and more of it is created every day about every person and every topic. Accompanying this cascade is an open data...
Later this week I’m going to be on a panel about the inescapable subject of MOOCs, so for this post I’m thinking through an issue I’ve been noticing since I last wrote a big post on this topic, which was during the peak of the media mayhem in July 2012. For many of those researching […]
Libraries and bookstores have perennially faced the problem of how to organize books on their shelves. There’s a tension between making certain books easy to find for readers with one set of…
People need more than free pizza to solve problems.
Government datasets are political in themselves and their use is under the magnifying glass, says Tim Davies
Blindly trusting it can lead you to the wrong conclusions.
Site about technology and social justice. Includes powerful videos of individual people telling their stories.
How many library assumptions about user behavior rely on similar fallacies?
For social-justice day. Tyranny of the majority/consensus view.
"A is the reincarnation of B" as necessary author metadata for Tibetans. Good for cultural sensitivity.