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Tag: Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson on the Hybrid T-Shirt Economy
by cameron About CCA great article in the most recent WIRED, Clive Thompson on How T-Shirts Keep Online Content Free, discusses the growing hybrid economy developed by purveyors of free content looking for a stable source of income. Their answer? Schwag in general, t-shirts in particular: Increasingly, creative types are harnessing what I’ve begun to call “the T-shirt…
WIRED on Arduino and Open Source Computing
by cameron TechnologyWIRED Magazine just published a fascinating article by Clive Thompson on Arduino, a company that manufactures an open source computing platform of the same name. Schematics for the Arduino chip are released under a CC BY-SA license, meaning that home-brewed Arduino chips have popped up in “open source synthesizers, MP3 players, guitar amplifiers, and even…