Category Archives: Personal

Reflecting on Open Access Day

Yesterday was the first Open Access Day — and what a day it was. What follows are my personal reflections. I wasn’t able to be as involved with OA Day as I would have liked, due to a variety of … Continue reading

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I’m on Rocketboom

…after a fashion. They use a photo of me around the one minute mark in today’s video, during a discussion of DRM. The photo’s from the DRM protests at the Students for Free Culture conference in Boston last year. I’m … Continue reading

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Towards autono.my

I’ve been an advocate for freedom in Web services for, well, years now. So I was happy to learn of the launch of open microblogging service identi.ca recently, and of autonomo.us and its Franklin Street Statement on Freedom and Network … Continue reading

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Hire me

I’m looking to get out of consulting and into a full time office environment. (It gets lonely at home.) I’m interested in opportunities in organizing, outreach, advocacy, or public education on issues in information policy, tech policy, or access to … Continue reading

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My column on NIH policy reprinted — in print

My column on the NIH public access policy, which was published on Science Progress‘ Web site in January, has been reprinted for its Spring-Summer 2008 Print Edition. Grab the beautiful PDF here.

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Gratifying positive review of Right to Research campaign

Char Booth, an instruction librarian at Ohio University, has posted a gratifying positive review of SPARC‘s Right to Research campaign (which I developed). Thanks for the kind words, Char! And thanks to Peter Suber for bringing it to my attention. … Continue reading

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My latest column on Web apps and FOSS

(I had accidentally posted this in the wrong place earlier; posting it here now.) My new column for Free Software Magazine is titled “Free software vs. software-as-a-service: Is the GPL too weak for the Web?”. It looks at the rise … Continue reading

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Slides from WI, MN presentations

I’ve uploaded the slides from my recent presentations in Wisconsin and Minnesota; they’re here.

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