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NetSquared Innovation Awards Proposals

NetSquared has collected about 150 proposals for their Innovation Award. They are letting people vote on these, but it's not entirely clear up front how the votes will be accounted for. (It's definitely clear that getting project backers to campaign to get people to vote is an awesome traffic building idea that I wish I had thought of myself.) The projects are competing for the opportunity to present at this year's NetSquared Conference. Voting has been extended through Monday, April 16, 5 PM PDT. You can vote for between five and ten projects. Unless you are already a partisan for one project or another, be prepared to spend some time actually really the full proposals. I guarantee you will learn something from them, even if you're too overwhelmed by the options to actually vote. Posted: 4/15/07; 11:49:10 PM #

Living in a State of Fear

I wish I could have attended last month's panel on Living in a State of Fear in New York, but I had to content myself with reading the submitted papers of the three panelists. As a way to understand the political context in which we in civil society have to do our work, these papers will give me ideas to think about for some time to come. The questions the panelists were given included: "To what extent today does it seem as though politicians are more likely to advise the public to fear everything and not simply fear itself? Has fear assumed the character of a ‘natural’ problem that is detached from any specific experience? In this form, does this become a perspective on life rather than a response to any particular threat?" Posted: 4/15/07; 11:27:58 PM #

Peter Suber's Open Access Overview

We're looking carefully at the economies and business models of peer-reviewed journals, given our recent publication of the Journal of Information Technology in Social Change. Peter Suber made some suggestions about some steps we might be able to take toward more open access and so I took some time to read up on the topic. Suber's own Open Access Overview is a great place to start. Posted: 4/15/07; 11:22:44 PM #