The Knight Foundation News Challenge, Open Source, and the Future of Hyperlocal
(Quick Update 10/11/09 – see Zachary Seeward’s post about how the Knight Foundation is considering changing the terms of grants in the future, as we...
Tag: Free Software
Open Source versus Free Software from a Marketing Perspective
Via Sandro Grogans comes an interesting interview / discussion from http://initmarketing.tv/ about the use of the phrases “open source” and “f...
Libre.fm and Free Network Services
Like many web-savvy music fans, I’ve been using Last.fm for the past couple of years. Now there’s a project, Libre.fm, which aims to bring the types...
BarCamp Boston 4
One of my favorite new trends of the last couple of years is the unconference movement and the *Camps, associated originally with BarCamp (an alternative to the...
What’s your bug #1?
Evan Prodromou recently asked the following on the laconica-dev list: So, Ubuntu has a pretty famous Bug #1: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 The title is &#...