Open Source, User Innovation: von Hippel networks allow developers to do (just) what they want horizontal innovation sufficient incentive incentive [...]
Link Love and Mourning Doves: The Encyclopedia of Life’s Civic Worth and Online Challenges
The Encyclopedia of Life (eol.org) is a self-described “major undertaking”. By sourcing scientists, pre-existing scientific organizations and lists, and citizen [...]
Zuckerman and Lehrer + Poptech
Ethan Zuckerman, ARS Electronica 2009 cloud implies an internet that is so pervasive that maps don’t matter, because too complicated [...]
Can’t We Just Call it Dramione and be Done with it?:” Deference and Authority in a FanFic Decision
When a server error caused a popular fanfic site, Coloured Grey, to close, administrators re-opened the archive, but they wanted [...]
In response to the TimesOnline Top Ten Museum Websites
Recently, the Times Online released their top ten museum websites. What a disappointment. The author, Mike Peake, sees the website [...]
Inside-out or Outside-in: How I’m Thinking About the Future (of Museums)
There are two ways of looking at the future of museums. One is to take an emotional, theoretical frame of [...]
Olson, Durkheim, & Searle: A Social Fact
The Life and Death of Jesse James: An internet love mystery, Josh Olson Olson’s story is fascinating and disturbing. And [...]
Baseball Card Trades
Using the “image chat” technology, I propose a website for baseball card trading. Geared towards tweens, the site will not [...]
