Tinkerless or tinkermore?
The Guardian this week published a review of Jonathan Zittrain’s book “The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It.” The journalist quotes Zittrain as saying “unlike the internet itself, where creative chaos reigns,…
How To Be Transparent in Fibre Optic Cable Deployment
Bill St. Arnaud points out that Pipe International, who are building an undersea cable from Sydney to Guam, have taken a completely transparent approach to communicating about project development and progress. Even to the point…
Dabba and Village Telco: Getting to Alpha
Here is a short note on where things stand with Dabba and the Village Telco. The Shuttleworth Foundation is planning to fund the hacking/adaptation/development, to at least alpha version, of an Open Source “Village Telco”…
Open Concept 1.0
An OpenConcept social contract, as I wrote about here, doesn’t exist yet but perhaps it is possible to bootstrap a process in which we imagine it exists and allow practice to define it. So here…
Building the Demand in Print-On-Demand
In an earlier post, I wrote about a very cool publishing model used by a bible publishing company in the U.S. in which they were able to aggregate user demand by laying out the pricing…