Open Access Anthropology

Online Journalism Review (from the Annenberg Center For Communications) is running an long and interesting piece today on the top mistakes made by new online publishers . The author, Robert Niles, if bully on the possibility of making money by publishing online. However, he points out that some of mistakes that people make when going […]

[Originally posted on Savage Minds.]
As anthropologists move towards more and more open models of sharing knowledge it will be important to be aware of the potential conflicts this might cause for indigenous groups who wish to restrict access to that knowledge. We’ve all heard of individual words being trademarked, but what if indigenous people wish […]

This was originally posted here…
My love/hate relationship with the NYT Magazine grows ever stronger with the publication of a totally fascinating story of the intelligence community’s attempt to take advantage of the “wisdom of crowds”–albeit crowds of the secretive, martini-swilling, karate-chopping and debonaire kind, viz. “open source spying.”[1] It’s a great article about the […]

Sci-fi writer and blogger Cory Doctorow has an article in Forbes about why he gives away free electronic versions of his books:
The thing about an e-book is that it’s a social object. It wants to be copied from friend to friend, beamed from a Palm device, pasted into a mailing list. It begs to be […]

These days it is easy to put things on line — everyone has a web page and a graduate student or a member of the computer staff who can put PDFs of your articles and papers online for you even if you do not know how to do so yourself. The problem is not technical, […]