So an actor named Ashton gets a million followers and a talk show host named Oprah joins Twitter and the world rejoices. Twitter has hit that magic point of becoming mainstream. Of course, there isn’t universal cheering, but that is to be expected. I’m sure the academic community was aghast when AOL users could send [...]
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Twitter hits the mainstream and a crossroads: Time for an open server
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Are we asking too much to get it all for free?
Over the weekend I was thinking about how much we expect to get for free online. When I started out online everything was free. At least to the end user it was. That was the boon of the academic internet. Now some 20+ years later we still want it all for free. I’m sure at [...]
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