Category Archives: Social justice

Ruminating on DiSo and the public domain

Dec 13th – @ 1am

There’s been some great pickup of the DiSo Project since Anne blogged about it on GigaOM.
I’m not really a fan of early over-hype, but fortunately the reaction so far has been polarized, which is a good thing. It tells me that people care about this idea enough to sign up, and it also means [...]

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Contemplating Big Sister

Sep 13th – @ 2am

I just started, and canned, an unruly post that was meandering and preventing me from articulating a vision of Big Sister. I can’t say that this post will be more coherent than the last, but I’ll give it a shot.
And so it goes.

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BarCampPortland and Pibb

May 12th – @ 3pm

I’m here in Portland, OR at their first BarCamp — it’s a great scene, but with a few differences.
First of all, this is the first time a BarCamp has been held specifically in a coworking space — in this case, an expansive collaborative environment called CubeSpace.
Second, Jay Fichialos, the original camphead, is here from Dallas [...]

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