Sören Auer posted today to the okfn-discuss lists about plans for Open Participatory Research. Reading this I was particularly struck by his mention of ‘open peer review’ as this seemed directly related to some recent ideas of my own. Specifically I’ve been working on an economics paper with an academic colleague on [...]
6.5/10. Very competently done adventure fantasy that entertains effectively for its 2 and a quarter hours.
City University’s Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy summer workshop took place today and yesterday and I was there to present The Control of Porting in Platform Markets. As well as presenting I had the chance to take some ‘impressionistic’ notes on some of talks which are included below.
Thursday Session 1: Telecoms [...]6/10. Not badly done WWII action thriller. There was the occasional sudden lurch (or even gaping hole) in the plot and the high level of (graphically rendered) torture/death of leading characters mean this wasn’t your classic mythologized feel-good war movie.
7/10. Having now finished the final volume of Skidelsky’s trilogy it is clear that the first volume was the best. This is not necessarily a reflection on Skidelsky’s efforts but on the nature of the subject matter — the first section of Keynes’ life, with its natural intertwining of life, friends and work, is the [...]
I’ll be giving a talk at Open Tech 2008 on Saturday (5th July) about some of the work I do at the Open Knowledge Foundation. The talk is entitled “Opening Data†and its rough subject is indicated by the blurb:
We all want more open data to analyse and mashup be it for [...]
7.5/10. A powerful film, though be warned: this is no feel-good piece and by the end of the two and a half hours you are unlikely to be leaving with a spring in your step.
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Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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