McChris + opensource   42

MODx CMS
This looks like an interesting alternative to CMS like Joomla
CMS  opensource  webpublishing 
september 2009 by McChris
Mashable: Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source
I think I may move to the Ma.gnolia platform for my social bookmarks and quick posts to terrorintheheartland.com. My username over there is McChris if you want to find me.
opensource  Web2.0  socialsoftware  folksonomy 
august 2008 by McChris
Rough Type: Open source as corporate joint venture
A recent study shows that most Linux contributors are not hobbyists, but employees of software-development organizations.
linux  economics  opensource 
april 2008 by McChris
CHDK Wiki
CHDK is hacked firmware for Canon digital cameras that expand the cameras' range of features.
photography  hack  opensource 
april 2008 by McChris
flare: visualization on the web
"Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more."
visualization  Flash  opensource 
march 2008 by McChris
Cash Me Out - Forbes.com
Daniel Lyons argues that Sun's acquisition of MySQL represents "The end of open source as counterculture."
MySQL  opensource  business 
february 2008 by McChris
ArtSoftware
"ArtSoftware.org is a wiki for sharing information about free and open source art software!"
opensource  wiki  art 
december 2007 by McChris
kottke.org: Yochai Benkler
Joel Turnipseed interviews the scholar about his book and participation online.
interview  opensource  intellectualproperty  freeculture  economics 
november 2007 by McChris
Ian Bogost: Chumby and the Rhetoric of Openness
Just because Chumby says it's open-source doesn't mean it is.
opensource  chumby  intellectualproperty  GPL 
november 2007 by McChris
Dia: a drawing program
A co-worker says this open-source package is a decent replacement for Visio.
chart  model  opensource  useful  utilities 
september 2007 by McChris
OLPCWiki: OS images for emulation
I don't think I'll ever have the time to check out the software for the One-Laptop-per-Child machine, but it's cool emulators are publicly available.
digitaldivide  opensource 
april 2007 by McChris
Austin Chronicle: You mean open source hasn't saved the world yet?
Jon Lebkowsky lays out open-source issues for a popular audience.
austin  freeculture  sxsw  opensource 
march 2007 by McChris
Time: Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free
Justin Fox examines the relationship between peer producers and the sites that profit from them.
Web2.0  opensource  production  labor 
february 2007 by McChris
Free software group challenges educational software patent
The US Patent and Trademark Office will review the patent granted for the Blackboard course management system.
patents  opensource  education 
january 2007 by McChris
Pure Data
Pure Data "was created to explore ideas of how to further refine the Max paradigm with the core ideas of allowing data to be treated in a more open-ended way and opening it up to applications outside of audio and MIDI, such as graphics and video."
media  music  opensource  geek 
january 2007 by McChris
Songbird Media Player
Cross-platform ,Mozilla-based media player that seemingly supports every media file out there. This looks promising, but it's only up to version 0.2.
music  media  OSX  opensource 
november 2006 by McChris
So Long to the AMD PIC
Chip Rosenthal shares his experience with AMD's "Personal Internet Communicator" net appliance serving Katrina refugees. He blames the Windows CE-based OS and the lack of hackability of the device.
opensource  end-of-life  disaster 
november 2006 by McChris
OpenSourceCMS
Allows you to test out various open source CM systems with no installation.
useful  opensource  CMS  webdesign 
october 2006 by McChris
Ars Technica: Eudora to partner with Mozilla and go open source
I'm often surprised to see most of the College of Communication staff and faculty still using Eudora. It looks like the newest version will be the last for OS X.
OSX  opensource  email  end-of-life 
october 2006 by McChris
A pacifist version of the GPL?
The developers of a distributed computing software system want to amend the GNU General Public License to ensure that participants aren't volunteering their machines for military research. The Free Software Foundation is blocking their efforts.
activism  anti-war  GPL  opensource  distributedcomputing  FSF 
august 2006 by McChris
FT.com: A closed mind about an open world
James Boyle discusses how open modes of production can seem counter-intutive to many people, yet produce a quality product.
opensource  production  CreativeCommons  economics  psychology  wikipedia 
august 2006 by McChris
The Atlantic Monthly: The Hive
Another venerable magazine runs a feature on Wikipedia. This one is good at describing the multiple forces that came together to form the project, rather than a single threaded narrative about Jimbo Wales.
wikipedia  production  opensource  history 
august 2006 by McChris
Torvalds critical of new GPL draft
I don't fully understand Linus' objections to the anti-DRM provision, but the bit about TiVo is quite interesting.
GPL  opensource  intellectualproperty  DRM  law 
july 2006 by McChris
Socialtext Open
Socialtext (not to be confused with the infamous theory journal of the same name) has released an open-source version of their enterprise wiki product. I wondered when this would happen.
wiki  opensource  business  Web2.0 
july 2006 by McChris
Annals of Information: Know it All
The New Yorker has a long feature about Wikipedia and its user communities. It even mentions the Boston Molasses Disaster.
wikipedia  history  opensource  production 
july 2006 by McChris
LWN: The GPL Is a License, not a Contract
Via Jordan, a discussion of the differences between licenses and contracts. I wish there was a story like this that explained FCC Licenses.
law  GPL  intellectualproperty  opensource 
june 2006 by McChris
GROKLAW: The GPL is a License, Not a Contract,
Via Jordan, explains the legal difference between licenses and contracts in terms of the GPL. This distinction is not made frequently enough in popular reporting about intellectual property.
law  GPL  intellectualproperty  opensource 
june 2006 by McChris
iScroll2: Two-Finger-Scrolling for iBooks
Don pointed me to this little utility that allows you to scroll with old-school Mac track pads.
useful  opensource  hack  OSX 
april 2006 by McChris
Web2.0 List, Web 2.0 Site
Via, O'Reilly Radar, an index of Web 2.0 companies and projects
ajax  blog  media  business  opensource  Web2.0 
april 2006 by McChris
The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Linux for the People
''If knowledge doesn't have owners, intellectual property is a trick of neoliberalism,'' Hugo Chavez says.
opensource  globalization  intellectualproperty  socialjustice  production 
april 2006 by McChris
'Sandal and ponytail set' cramping Linux adoption?
I don't doubt that the business world is so shallow to make technology decisions based on administrator sartorial style, but don't you want your geeks to be thinking about computers and not their appearance? What does this say about our culture?
opensource  geek  clothing  stupid 
march 2006 by McChris
Open-source business | Open, but not as usual
ECONOMIST story on how for-profit businesses are adopting open-source modes of production.
opensource  production  business  wikipedia 
march 2006 by McChris
Splasho - Firefox Screenshot
sweet sassy molassy, this guy has 100 Firefox extensions installed in his browser, and he says it's stable. I say it's a stable of extensions!
firefox  opensource  humor  browser 
march 2006 by McChris
The Lyceum Project
WordPress derivative that can scale up to thousands of blogs
blog  opensource 
march 2006 by McChris
Slashdot | On the Matter of Slashdot Story Selection
Rob Malda reveals how he picks stories for the front page of /.
slashdot  citizensmedia  opensource 
january 2006 by McChris

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