More thoughts on what “open source” means…
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Read: Why open?
Here’s a part of open source that I have not thought about before:
Open source is a bottom-up, worker-led movement. The means and outputs of production are available to everybody. I think that’s beautiful – and, in a world where every aspect of our lives has been packaged and monopolized for profit, a powerful force for good.
Read: RSS is Better Than Twitter
Another call to RSS over Twitter – love it!
Read: Teaching habits that support active learning
These ideas could also be applied to corporate training as well as learning in the college environment.
A terrific example of this method (via the Zettlekasten blog), I want to explore this sometime!
How do consumers protect themselves from surveillance and start to restore some semblance of privacy? Services like Google and Facebook have many settings where you can limit your privacy exposure. This article doesn’t cover those, however, as much already has been written about that. What follows is more like what Doc Searls calls a “wizard kit” of various open-source technologies that I have adopted and customized over the years to protect my own privacy.
A lot of good tips for protecting your privacy.
Read: How I’m able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
I started using LaTeX to write lecture notes in the second semester of my bachelor in mathematics, and I’ve been using it ever since, which makes for a total of more than 1700 pages of notes. To give you an idea of what those notes look like, here are some examples:
I think it is amazing that someone could take math notes using a computer – wow!
Read: Jimmy Carter Lives Modestly
I have always had the impression that Jimmy Carter has led a quiet life after his presidency, but he is really quiet!
Read: Microsoft open sources Calculator source code
This is pretty neat, will take a look at this sometime!
