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Open Access News Blog

By Howard Rheingold, 10 years 50 weeks ago.

The Open Access News Blog covers issues relating to the scholarly/scientific publishing knowledge commons. A brief overview explains open access:

Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.

Open Co-op Project

By MichelBauwens, 10 years 50 weeks ago.

Cooperation is related to the 3 paradigms of open/free, participatory/P2P, and the Commons.

I only recently discovered a wonderful resource, the Open Co-op Project, which has a working definition of what an Open Organization should be, and also an extensive listing of Background Documents which can all be downloaded at the site.

It's available at http://open.coop/contact+us

Open Health: a platform based model of active health

By Andrea Saveri, 10 years 50 weeks ago.

Open source as politics

By Kevin Jones, 10 years 50 weeks ago.

Open Source Disaster Recovery

By Howard Rheingold, 10 years 50 weeks ago.

First Monday on Open Source Disaster Recovery:

OpenID-Decentralized Open Standards For Online Identity

By SamuelRose, 10 years 50 weeks ago.

Slashdot | The Case for OpenID

In the wake of the Internet Identity Workshop 2006, people are talking more and more about the idea of an "identity commons" and basing identity around open standards.