Posts from ‘February, 2008’
Obama now organizing in Florida
I heard an interesting item tonight: now that Florida’s primaries are over, the Obama campaign is coordinating with its supporters in Florida. Apparently, the campaign asked supporters to host election night house parties on the evening of the March 4 primaries. The Obama campaign now has a 305 phone number and an address in Miami [...]
CopyNight Orlando, Feb. 26: FOSS licensing
The February meeting of CopyNight Orlando will be Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 7 pm at Stardust Video & Coffee (1842 E. Winter Park Rd., Orlando). Our topic for the month is open source licensing — or whatever else comes up. Learn more at copynight.org or my CopyNight page. Hope to see you there!
Mr. Thatcher, tear down this (pay)wall
From the Chronicle, via Open Access News:
Sanford G. Thatcher, director of Penn State University Press and president of the Association of American University Presses, calls Harvard’s [open access] policy “shortsighted” because it might result in the loss of subscription and reprint income to humanities and social-science journals. His own press receives two-thirds of its journal [...]
(Don’t) Draft Lessig [UPDATE: Yes, do]
Update: The premise of all this is made irrelevant in the announcement video posted at lessig08.org.
The campaign to draft Larry Lessig to run for Congress in California’s 12th district has grown markedly since I first blogged about it. The Facebook group has grown to more than 2200 members. On Monday, the campaign set a goal: [...]
Echoes from history: W. J. Bryan v. evolution in Florida
Florida is in the midst of a hullabaloo about whether to add evolution explicitly into the state’s teaching standards for science. Sadly, there is opposition, and as you might expect, most of the opposition appears to be premised on religious objections. (Aside: In addition to stepping up our science education, maybe we need to improve [...]
Lessig for Congress — I hope
I didn’t want to say anything about this — after the DailyKos diary, even after Joi blogged it — but now that it’s all over Slashdot (Zittrain jumps in, too), I won’t hold back any longer.
Larry Lessig for Congress. Please.
We would be so lucky — to have such a friend, a leader with such integrity, [...]
Harvard faculty say yes to OA
Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday adopted a mandate for open access to the college’s peer-reviewed research publications.
Already, there’s quibbling from others about whether the details of the policy are good or bad. But I want to focus on the fact that the faculty, through their own governance process, themselves approved this mandate. [...]
