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27 NOV 09
What Wilber gets wrong about Plotinus, Brian Hines SAVE
So I can confidently say that the Plotinus described by Wilber in SES is quite different from the Plotinus that I know. Granted, Wilber gets a lot right about Plotinus. However, he also gets a lot wrong. Thus my purpose in writing this paper is to correct several misconceptions about Plotinus in SES.TAGS
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26 NOV 09
OnTheCommons.org » A New Look at theTragedy of the Commons SAVE
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Awarding the world’s most prestigious economics prize to a scholar who champions cooperative behavior greatly boosts the legitimacy of the commons as a framework for solving our social and environmental problems. Ostrom’s work also challenges the current economic orthodoxy that there are few, if any, alternatives to privatization and markets in generating wealth and human well being.TAGS
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Knowledge as a Public Good (SPARC) SAVE
It makes a huge difference who can say “take it or leave it” in a negotiation. Right now publishers tend to hold that privileged position. But as prices and cancellations keep rising, the positions are reversing. Even apart from the average balance of bargaining power, slowly shifting to universities, there is the bargaining power over specific titles. The desirability of journals is a matter of degree, despite the binary sound of “must-have”. Some high-demand journals may be unthreatened by all recent developments. But the set of unthreatened journals is shrinking, and set for which universities could modify basic terms to better serve research and researchers is growingTAGS
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NABOTU: National Book Trust of Uganda. SAVE
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The difficulty in accessing learning materials for cash strapped Ugandan students is the subject of a research investigation by NABOTU. The research is exploring ways through which content providers such as commercial publishers can make available online some of their content under a flexible license such as creative commons. The research is also looking at what business models would guarantee income streams for the publishers. The idea is to grow a body of content that students can freely access.TAGS
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Copyright Time Bomb Set to Disrupt Music, Publishing Industries | Epicenter | Wired.com SAVE
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At a time when record labels and, to a lesser extent, music publishers, find themselves in the midst of an unprecedented contraction, the last thing they need is to start losing valuable copyrights to ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s music, much of which still sells as well or better than more recently released fare. Nonetheless, the wheels are already in motion.TAGS
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RI pushes for treaty against theft of genetic resources and culture | The Jakarta Post SAVE
In a move that will likely cause unease among Western academics and artists, Indonesia and other developing countries are pushing for a legally binding treaty to protect their precious natural resources and cultural heritage from being "stolen" or "misused" by other countries.TAGS
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An alternative primer on national and international copyright law in the global South SAVE
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eighteen questions and answersTAGS
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AntWeb, Fedora Project, Wikitravel → CC BY-SA 3.0 - Creative Commons SAVE
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Demonstrating that June’s migration of Wikimedia sites to CC Attribution-ShareAlike as their main content liense was a signal of much greater interoperability among free and open content projects going forward and not merely an end in itself are recent announcements from the Fedora Project, AntWeb, and Wikitravel, all moved or moving to CC BY-SA 3.0. Each has a different story as to how and why they made the move.TAGS
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Indonesia & Bali Tourism New » Blog Archive » Indonesia to host int’l meeting on traditional knowledge, folklore protection SAVE
An international meeting aimed at seeking efforts to protect genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore is scheduled to be held in Bali, Indonesia, from Nov. 23 to 27, a statement released by the Indonesian foreign affairs ministry said here on Friday.TAGS