Open Journal Montreal

The Problem with OpenJournal and An Open Source-Inspired Proposal:
A comment that turned into a new plan for OpenJournal.
by Risa Dickens.

skip the preamble and take me straight to the problem and the proposed solution, please.

Part 1.
Editing Openness: Lessons from Open Source.
I’m really glad Christian drew the issue of edited openness into the comments about [...]

by Yohei
My next door neighbor’s dogs, little rabbit sized things, are always barking. Footsteps in the hallway or quiet talking, any hardly perceptible sound can set off the yapping. But I don’t mind the barking so much as the man bellowing “QUIET!” every time they do. Despite their size, they’re fully grown [...]

Good people of Open, I’d like to introduce to you Yohei, our first official Contributing Editor.
We’re still taking people on, but there’s one less poetry-literary-theorist spot left to be filled.
It turns out Yohei and I bumped around the old grey buildings of McGill together for a few years, back when both of us were [...]

by Yohei
I recently re-listened to Elliott Smith’s earlier, demo version of his song “Speed Trials.” Though the demo is poorly recorded, it has some noteworthy lyric moments that are, I think, more interesting than the later version’s.
Placing the original, demo lyrics in the margins in bold, the chrous of finished version of “Speed [...]

this is a new entry in an ongoing Open exploration of the cultural commons.
So true: At its best, partial knowledge is the starting point from which more large scale patterns are initially hypothesized. It elicts curiosity and mobilizes interpretive effort.
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John Ruskin as a child, before the aesthetic, geographical, and architectural theories that come later, grew [...]

by Yohei.
Negative Capability: Unread Cultural Commons and Small Talk
you can read the other things we’ve had to say about the cultural commons here, if you like.
To complicate Cultural Commons further, there is the concept of reverse vicariousness. Half of the ‘commoners’ haven’t done their homework:

“Nonreaders can positively register at social gatherings that they “know [...]