Open Source Software: The Newest Specter?
As opposed to traditional proprietary programs which are copyrighted, controlled, and sold by the owner, open source programs are effectively in the public control, created, developed, maintained, and...
View ArticleSenior Thesis: Democracy in Wikipedia
My thesis, written 2006 and 2007 in partial fulfillment of my undergraduate degree at The University of Texas at Austin, studied the legal culture of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that is...
View ArticleReview: 10 Books That Screwed Up the World by Benjamin Wiker
10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn’t Help by Benjamin Wiker I recently picked this up while browsing the philosophy section of a local bookstore. On a side note, I love to look...
View ArticleUser-Generated Content as an Ethical Relation
It is 12:16 AM on a Sunday night, and I just spent this wonderful weekend inside, working on a paper. I am tired and just want to go to bed, but I am – for some reason – here, typing. I have not...
View ArticleStructural Transformation was Habermas’s first of thirty books
So given what’s going on* in Egypt and the Middle East, we in the West are fascinated by not so much revolutions and popular uprisings against dictatorial regimes, but an efficacious use of social...
View ArticleAbout a bot: reflections on building software agents
This post for Ethnography Matters is a very personal, reflective musing about the first bot I ever developed for Wikipedia. It makes the argument that while it is certainly important to think about...
View ArticleA dynamically-generated robots.txt: will search engine bots recognize...
In short, I built a script that dynamically generates a robots.txt file for search engine bots, who download the file when they seek direction on what parts of a website they are allowed to index. By...
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