Gina Trapani writes about creating and building healthy open source communities.

Boone Gorges is undertaking a cool project to reclaim his digital footprint.

A manifesto for making the next one billion seconds about distributed, open, and secure software platforms. We should no longer surrender our most vital personal details to a closed-source system. It’s your social data, own it.

Doc Searls writes about what would happen if Flickr were to fail.

"So to the extent you're locked in, that's the extent you are not on the open web. The perfectly open web has zero lock-in. The silos are totally locked-in and therefore not on the open web."

Khoi Vinh's horror story of "open" and a home theater setup.

"I’m curious as to what the tipping point was for projects like WordPress and Drupal to really take off in terms of exponential community growth and user adoption. (Can anyone in the know chime in here?)"

"Moving forward, there are a lot more lessons we can learn if we build our social tools with the assumption that no one version of any document, app, or narrative needs to be the definitive one. We might even make our software, and our communities, more inclusive if we embrace the forking ourselves."

A quick look at who's defending and advocating open source software.

Rackspace makes a bold move by open sourcing its core tech.