Science Commons announced the NeuroCommons project with generous support from Teranode to build the “first neurology repository for the Semantic Web.” See commentary at eWeek (New Brain Trust to Work Like the Web) and from Andrew Newman (Model Driven, Semantic Web Enabled, Science Commons). Subscribe to the Science Commons weblog feed.

Caltech economics professor Preston McAfee appears to be mad as hell about high journal and textbook prices, and he’s doing something about it. He’s published a complete Introduction to Economic Analysis textbook under a Creative Commons license. See his page about the license and high textbook prices: Why open source? Academics do an enormous amount…

Technical wizard (music and code) Victor Stone retired as the lead ccMixter developer a few months ago. So what’s he doing with all that extra time (apart from continuing to commit ccHost patches)? One would assume a chunk of it went into completing his new album, La Vie Chill. Victor explains: [I]t’s dedicated to my…

Photo by Steve Jurveston licensed under cc by. Steve Jurveston comments about cool uses of his CC-licensed photos on Flickr: Imagine my surprise when I heard that the Charlie Rose show found my photo on flickr and wanted to use it on broadcast TV. They were interviewing Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and seer of…

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