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Concordia University Librarian Checks Out Open Access

Press Release | Concordia University (CU) | January 30, 2013

From Wikipedia to shareware, the Internet has made information and software more widely available than ever. At the heart of this explosion is the simple idea that information should be open and free for anyone. Yet with publishers charging exorbitant fees for subscriptions to academic journals, university libraries are struggling to keep up. Read More »

Information Wants To Be Complex

Heather Leson | Ushahidi | June 29, 2013

Questions lead to answers that lead to more questions. Tactical Tech Info Activism Camp has a number of tracks: Documentation, Investigation, Curation, and Beautiful Troublemakers. I joined the “microscopes are us” evidence team aka Documentation. [...] Read More »

Social networks are not communities, and other discussions from the Community Leadership Summit

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | July 16, 2012

[At the Community Leadership Summit this past weekend]... I realized that I appreciate social networks but feel much more passionate about communities, and spontaneously called for a session to talk about the differences. This article describes our discussion and summarizes the insights I got this year from the summit. Read More »