Yochai Benkler on peer-production, open data, etc.
Breve, ma intenso - da leggere. -jc *Peer production and the opportunities and struggles of constructing a more humane production system* By Yochai Benkler, professor, Harvard Law School; and faculty co-director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society Commons-based production generally, and commons-based peer production in particular, are the most important and surprising organizational innovation to have emerged in networked economy and society. Surprising, because throughout the 20th century our intellectual frame for understanding production was dominated by a binary vision: state and market. By the end of the last century, we had shifted from a view of state- and managerial-hierarchy-based production as dominant to a view of market- or decentralized price-based organization as the dominant model. […] Continua qui: http://openthoughts-peerproduction.blogs.uoc.edu/peer-production-and-the-opp...
Google is closing Google News in Spain and removing Spanish media outlets from the service following a row with the country’s government over new legislation aimed at protecting local publishers that requires the search company to pay for using their content. The tech giant announced late on Wednesday that Google News would close in Spain on 16 December. A spokeswoman said she was “incredibly sad” to announce the company was shutting the service. The Spanish government passed a new copyright law in October that imposes fees for online content aggregators such as Google News in an effort to protect the country’s print media industry. The law comes into effect in January. more at: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/11/google-news-spain-to-close...
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J.C. DE MARTIN