BusinessWeek Online: BW Magazine has devoted an entire issue to Linux and Open Source software this week. Two paricular favorites of mine are “Next from Open Source: Killer Apps?” and “Programmers Are Like Artists”. The first discusses the open source applications that are now being built, including corporate software using open source bases that don’t [...]

An Introduction to Open Source Communities is a research report on Open Source Communities. It looks at “…existing, relevant research, and presents original case studies of two open source projects: TouchGraph and SquirrelMail. It identifies some patterns of collaboration that both of these projects share, and describes how these patterns might apply to other types [...]

Copyfight: the Politics of IP, written by Donna Wentworth and sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, this news blog focuses on the legal and technological innovations of intellectual property.

OPEN MIND: open source is a news blog sponsored by Corante and written by Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier focusing on Open Source software.

Content and Knowledge Management are two very different subjects. Content Management generally refers to the handling of content on a website while Knowledge Management is used for managing the internal information of a group or organization so that it remains useful and available. Why combine the two topics then? Because of what they have in [...]

According to a BILLBOARD article, the new iTunes music service has done amazingly well. It serves as a example that if a half-way decent legal alternative is offered, people will prefer that to file-sharing services.