Monthly Archives: December 2011

Writing this blog is sometimes boring because I have to cover the same matter time and again. That’s unfortunately because progress – in Open knowledge – is so excruciatingly slow in the scholarly community that what I wrote five years … Continue reading →

I have now learnt how to make videos which can be used to illustrate aspects of what I and others are doing and trying to do. The raw material is video footage, voiceovers, captions, slides, hyperlinks, etc. I’m not a … Continue reading →

In the last week I have discovered that I can make movies on my PC. [This is not an advertisement for Microsoft products]. But there is a tool in Office called Windows Live Movie Maker which: is reasonably easy to … Continue reading →

I am going to bore some readers by jabbering on relentlessly about why publishers should not use CC-NC. But every time you switch off it costs the academic community another few hundred million dollars. That will be cut from your … Continue reading →

A really important post on the OKF open-Science mailing list – start at: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/2011-December/001118.html Here Jenny Molloy posted: I cam[e] across this story on Nature news ( http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/12/could_crowd_sourcing_provide_t.html<http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/12/could_crowd_sourcing_provide_t.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+news%2Frss%2Fnewsblog+%28News+Blog+-+Blog+Posts%29&utm_content=Google+Reader > ). In an interesting combination of crowd sourcing and open data … Continue reading →