From the monthly archives: October 2009

Open Notebook Social Science

By Rufus Pollock On October 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The other day I posted up some work-in-progress on the subject of patterns of knowledge production.

That material is still in a fairly preliminary state. However, my decision to release it it in this form was a conscious decision and part of an ongoing attempt on my part to practice a more open “release [...]

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The Mac Premium and the Apple Tax

By Rufus Pollock On October 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Why do people pay such a premium for Apple Mac’s (aka the Apple Tax). I calculate it as roughly a $300 premium on a $600 machine.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/ballmer_on_the_500_apple_tax_the_man_was_right

http://blogs.computerworld.com/how_much_does_the_apple_tax_really_cost

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Exploring Patterns of Knowledge Production

By Rufus Pollock On October 15, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I’m posting up some work-in-progress entitled Exploring Patterns of Knowledge Production (link to full pdf) that follows up to my earlier post of a year and a bit ago. Below I’ve excerpted the introduction plus list of motivational questions. Comments (and critique) very welcome!

Exploring Patterns of Knowledge Production Paper ‘Alpha’ (pdf)

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The Knowledge Commons is Different

By Rufus Pollock On October 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I was looking again recently at “Understanding the Knowledge Commons” which I had perused previously.

While reading the introductory chapter by Hess and Ostrom I came across:

People started to notice behaviors and conditions on the web-congestion, free riding, conflict, overuse, and “pollution” — that had long been identified with other types of commons. [...]

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Reverse Proxying to WordPress.com

By Rufus Pollock On October 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I wanted to do a reverse proxy to wordpress.com in order to integrate an existing wordpress.com blog into an existing site. This turned out to be a little trickier than I’d thought due to wordpress.com’s usage of gzip deflation of their output.

Figured this out thanks to sound advice here and here:

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