Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future Cory Doctorow is a young Canadian freelance writer and web entrepreneur who lives in London. He's an editor of … [Read more...]
Open Sources
open source developments – technology, politics, and eCommerce
open sources - technology, politics, and eCommerce
Hackers and Painters
software design, open sources, and eCommerce Paul Graham co-wrote the software for Viaweb, which was bought out by Yahoo for their successful build-it-yourself online stores kit. Hackers and Painters … [Read more...]
Intellectual Property and Open Source
a practical guide to protecting code The Open Source movement makes software available free for people to use or even to pass on to others. This flies in the face of normal commercial practice, where … [Read more...]
Moodle E-Learning Course Development
complete guide to e-learning using Moodle I went to a Moodle training course recently, and the universal cry there was for training manuals or guidance books which would talk you through the program … [Read more...]
Moodle English Teacher Cookbook
80 effective recipes for creating online learning materials Moodle has now established itself as the de facto standard eLearning software tool in further and higher education. It's an open source … [Read more...]
Moodle for Language Teaching
online language-learning activities using Moodle I have been critical of some of these Moodle guides in the past. That's because most of them are not much more than an explanation of Moodle's … [Read more...]
Moodle Teaching Techniques
creative ways to use Moodle for online learning courses William H. Rice is something of a Moodle specialist. This is a follow up to his recent Moodle: E-Learning Course Development in which he seeks … [Read more...]
Open Source Research
why tax-funded research should be in the public domain Open Source Research offers a new challenge to higher education. In the UK a traditional academic teaching post carried three requirements - … [Read more...]
Open Sources
policy essays by the free software movement pioneers O'Reilly publications have decided to throw their weight behind the Open Source movement. This timely compilation of essays written by its leaders … [Read more...]
Open Sources 2.0
essays and reports from the free software movement When we reviewed Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution six years ago, the movement for free software was only just gathering momentum … [Read more...]
OpenOffice Writer
The free alternative word-processor to Microsoft Word OpenOffice is one of the big success stories of the Open Source Software movement - along with programs such as Linux and Apache. Open Source … [Read more...]
Remix: The Copyright Wars
Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy Lawrence Lessig is a lecturer in law at Harvard University and a leading authority on copyright and intellectual property rights in the digital … [Read more...]
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
socio-political manifesto of the free software movement Forget the enigmatic title of The Cathedral and the Bazaar for a moment. This is essentially four long, polemical essays on the open source … [Read more...]
Using Drupal
Configuring Modules to Build Dynamic Websites Drupal is the most powerful, industrial-strength option amongst the open source content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, and Wordpress). But it's … [Read more...]
Using Moodle (second edition)
open source software for online learning courses Two or three years ago, attempts to put educational courses on line were stuck with using programs such as Blackboard and WebCT, which were costly, … [Read more...]
We the Media
open sources - writing and new web technology O'Reilly publish computer books and software guidance manuals, but they also support the open source movement. This seeks to make the code of software … [Read more...]
WordPress 2.7 Complete
Create your own web site from scratch with WordPress WordPress 2.7 Complete. WordPress started out as blogging software, but it has grown rapidly into a fully featured content management system … [Read more...]
WordPress 3.0 Complete
a blog, web site, and content management system WordPress 3.0 (WP) started out as a blogging software program in 2003, but it has grown rapidly into a fully featured content management system (CMS). … [Read more...]
WordPress for Dummies
from blogging platform to content management system WordPress was first launched in 2003 as open source software designed for blogging - and it is still used as such. But as its popularity has … [Read more...]
WordPress Search Engine Optimization
tips on settings, plugins, and page tweaking WordPress SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the art of improving the quality of web pages in order to increase their rankings in search engines - and … [Read more...]