Bill Anderson

ACM puts some preservation plans in place. Finally. - Bill Anderson

CKAN list of Linked Open Data sets, more or less. - Bill Anderson

Nature special issue on sharing S - Bill Anderson

Louis Menand outlines the changes afoot with regard to graduate education (and education in general?) and notes the danger of losing academia's contributions to social criticism and reflection. - Bill Anderson

SSOAR: a multi-lingual repository of social science research papers. - Bill Anderson

Prof. Ray Pierrehumbert exposition of the arithmetic needed to think clearly about the role of CO2 and waste heat in global warming. "It's not hard." - Bill Anderson

Intriguing picture of the different ways that open data are shared. - Bill Anderson

An interesting discussion of software design and working software development practices. Linus has some opinions about natural selection that he thinks apply very well to software evolution. Is he right? - Bill Anderson

A tribute to Jim Gray, this collection of essays examines the current state and future opportunities for data-intensive science. - Bill Anderson

Larry Lessig breaks down his earlier argument for a middle way regarding transparency in gov't and elsewhere. - Bill Anderson

We're told that open access to research is inevitable, but it won't be easy to achieve. I believe the last part, the first part is an empirical question. - Bill Anderson

Carl Malamud's critique of Lessig's "Against Transparency" article. Nice reference to a recent New Yorker article about scientific management. The ad hominem aspects of the comments are troubling. - Bill Anderson

Carl Malamud's critique of Lessig's "Against Transparency" article. Nice reference to a recent New Yorker article about scientific management. The ad hominem aspects of the comments are troubling. - Bill Anderson

OPENLINK Software: documentation on deploying LInked Data into the existing Web. - Bill Anderson

Because libraries are not business enterprises, they are public goods. - Bill Anderson

Larry Lessig's cautions about an unquestioned faith in "naked transparency". We need this critique - Bill Anderson

Stewart Brand brings together a wide collection of sources for information and for our future. - Bill Anderson

Informative selection of commentaries on e-books and what we know about reading and the potential consequences, good and bad. - Bill Anderson

Nailing down the provenance of a "fact". It's not always easy. - Bill Anderson