Flat World Knowledge Progress

Flat World Knowledge, the company I serve as Chief Openness Officer, is making great progress! We released a lengthy press release today full of good news. I include only the first two paragraphs below, which both give a sense of where we’re headed and include an awesome quote from Hooks Johnston of Valhalla Partners: NYACK, … Read more

Flat World Knowledge Public Beta!

FWK, the open source textbook publishing company, has come out of private beta! Find out what all the excitement is about at http://flatworldknowledge.com/. As a quick recap, FWK textbooks are much like traditional textbooks in that they are: beautiful looking printed books, written by world-class authors, supported with all the supplementals and teaching aids (like … Read more

Twitter Detective

Chris Snyder at Wired exercised his detective skills on Bijan Sabet’s recent tweet to find out who Spark Capital (one of the VCs that funded Twitter) has been talking to recently: i had a mtg with a company today & one of their execs had the title ‘Chief Openness Officer’ What company is so committed … Read more