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Summary From Reddit: "The Internet Freedom Act: To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation by preventing the restriction of liberty and preventing the means of censorship. IFA will allow internet users to browse freely without any means of censorship, users have the right to free speech and to free knowledge; we govern the content of the internet, governments don't.
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In this high-energy talk, Frans Johansson illustrates how relentless trial-and-error – coming up with an idea, executing it on a small scale, and then refining it – is THE distinguishing characteristic of the greatest artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs. Why? Because humans are not very good at predicting which ideas are going to be a success.
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After the Associated Press published an article on March 20th about employers asking job candidates for Facebook and social media passwords, the response was, to say the least, overwhelming. In the month since, there have been thousands of tweets and social media status updates, more than 2,000 blog posts, and hundreds of news articles on the "trend." Legislation was proposed in at least three states, and by April 9th, Maryland had hastily passed a bill.
Image via Wikipedia The submissions for Open Research Computation (which I blogged about a month or so back) are starting to come in and we hope to be moving towards getting those initial papers out soon. One of the things we want the journal to do is bring more of the transparency and open critique that characterises the best Open Source Software development processes into the scholarly peer review process. The journal will have an open review process in which reviews and the versions of the manuscript they refer to will be available.
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Ten years ago today, the Budapest Declaration was published. The declaration was the output of a meeting held some months earlier, largely through the efforts of Melissa Hagemann, that brought together key players from the, then nascent, Open Access movement.
On September 30, 2009, I was standing with about 2,000 of my lifelong friends outside old Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The machine-like new Giants Stadium loomed over us with little subtlety to recommend it.
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The role of the Internet as a platform for collective action grows - O'Reilly Radar
A survey released this week by the Pew Research Center's Internet and Life Project shed light on the social side of the Internet . The results offered insight into the differences between the connected and the disconnected, revealing that Internet users are more likely to be active participants, with some 80 percent of Internet users participating in groups, compared with 56 percent of non-Internet users. These findings confirm the impact of the the Internet on collective action, observed Beth Noveck , NYU law professor and former deputy CTO for open government at the White House. "Internet users are more active participants in groups and are more likely to feel pride and a sense of accomplishment." Perhaps we are all not, as Robert D.The Next Big Thing
The 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems brings together researchers in cognitive systems and robotics from academia, government and industry. ... Javni posvet o predlogu sprememb Direktive o ponovni uporabi informacij javnega sektorja 2012, Ljubljana We are in the process of republishing ten new Yale College courses, ranging from the just published Financial theory to Environmental Studies.
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