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Author Archives: Alex Kozak

Effective Advocacy Without Ideology in Open Education

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Recently George Siemens posted some thoughts on the topic of openness as an ideology, and a dialogue began to take shape around whether the open education movement is best served by pragmatists or ideologues. In true blogger fashion, I want to ignore a lot of the context and put my own spin on the topic [...]

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Open Journalism, Part 1

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Journalists and media organizations face a foundational crisis: the web challenges their traditional conceptions of what the end-product of journalism is.
The availability of open data, open publishing tools, and open licenses combined with the a low barrier for information access allows anyone with the time and motivation to transform into an investigative reporter, publisher, advertising, [...]

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