Open Journal Montreal

I’ve noticed that when I’m talking with someone it seems like they need to say what they are saying in a few different ways before I get close to understanding them. It’s as though we all speak different languages. With each new detail my interlocutor adds, each metaphor and similie they use to describe this [...]

did you miss part 1? Linus wasn’t an intentional revolutionary or anything like that, but his understanding of the different kind of success that might be possible with a committed effort of collaborative devlopment built something new. In this viral, communicative way I think Hiphop and Open Source share a politics. At the core of [...]

“Through MIT OpenCourseWare, educators and students everywhere can benefit from the academic activities of our faculty and join a global learning community in which knowledge and ideas are shared openly and freely for the benefit of all.” MIT President Susan Hockfield MIT has lept onboard the expanding of the open source metaphor/process in an interesting [...]

by Risa Dickens What I didn’t quite say in my first open source related public talk… Well, I walked into the conference room at CRIM for my little talk about OpenJournaL last night and immediately began deciding to ditch my written presentation and just have a talk with these folks. The guys that straggled in [...]

The Duck & Herring Co., in association with Mary’s in East Atlanta, proudly presents THE WORLD ATLANTA KARAOKE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2005 What: A karaoke contest When: Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 10 p.m. Where: Mary’s in East Atlanta Why: To determine the city’s “best” karaoke performers, and hand them prizes … … and to celebrate the release [...]

By Alexandra Yarrow In his paper on information society studies, Alistair Duff quotes from Eugene Garfield’s 1979 definition of the term information society. An information society, wrote Garfield, is one in which “the rapid and convenient delivery of information is the ordinary state of affairs” (Duff 139). We commonly speak today of information societies, recognising [...]