The WordPress REST API is awesome. For a project I was working on this week I needed to be able to publish pages to WordPress via the API from R. Needless to say, there aren’t a ton of resources available online about how to do this (read: none). After fighting a losing battle between httr’s … Read more

Is open a means to an end, or is open its own end? This is a question worth thinking long and hard about. I’ve done some writing as I’ve been thinking about it, so I figured I may as well post it. Think about the phrase “open education.” This phrase denotes something very different when … Read more

UPDATE: It’s been brought to my attention that some readers of my blog read this post as a criticism of Creative Commons and its licenses. Nothing could be further from the truth. The title of the post was not “The Creative Commons licenses are inadequate.” The title was “Things you may misunderstand about the licenses” … Read more