Category: All Things Open
Posts on Open Source, Open Content, Open Hardware, Open Innovation, Open Business… the list goes on.
The Morality of Openness
I feel like my moral compass is broken. Like many things that break, I put the first aberrations down to anomalies, exceptions that prove the rule. But just as a real compass doesn’t point to true north but to a...
Spectrum Safari!
Previously I’ve written about why experts find it so hard to agree on spectrum regulation. However there is one aspect of spectrum that I haven’t touched on and that is the fact that radio waves are invisible, which turns out to be...
The Open Data Cart and Twin Horses of Accountability and Innovation
Let me start by saying that the ideals of the Open Data movement: transparency; accountability; and, citizen innovation, are ones that I hold near to my heart. Further, I admire and respect many of the leaders of the Open Data...
Right Openness
Let me start by saying how much I love Open Source software, peer production, the tide that raises all ships, Wikipedia, all things “open”. It is part of how I define myself. I love what happens when people share expertise,...
If I Had 50 Million Dollars
If I had any poetic talent, I would have done this in rhyming couplets set to the music of the Barenaked Ladies but sadly today you are left with my prose. Hum along with me anyway. If you work in...