I was recently asked what I thought of Cory Doctorow’s classic Metacrap paper. He was, of course, dead on when he wrote it. The nagging question at the time was “what alternatives do we have?” And the sad answer was “not many.”
Making Adaptaion Easier – ocw2wiki
So we’ve been talking about this for months now. “Wouldn’t it be cool if there was just a button you could push that would pipe the contents of an OCW page directly into a wiki, so you could start remixing away?” Everyone else here is busy writing real code (eduCommons 2.0 release coming in April!), … Read more
Opening access opens profits
Thanks to Mike Smith who pointed me to this summary of a talk given by Eve Gray at the Creative Commons South Africa launch. Eve is from the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, and: discussed how HSRC’s early experiments with open access publishing paid off. As they made their research papers available for … Read more