Epistemographer

Brief post from the airport…I’ll be away for a bit, spending the next few weeks on a slightly-delayed honeymoon in New Zealand. I might pop in for a post or two, but if at all such posts will be sporadic, as I actually left my laptop at home – a decision that has left my [...]

The two categories that I’m thinking a lot about are amateur identity and commons-based peer production. Both have enjoyed increasing cultural prominence over the past several years, and their emergence has been very much framed in revolutionary rhetoric.
I’ll begin with a simple declaration: I want to very much separate the categories of “amateur” and “commons-based [...]

originally published in a slightly-abridged fashion earlier this year in Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE, Vol. 27, No. 2. (2005), pp. 96-96

Earlier this year, O’Reilly Publishing introduced a new quarterly publication called Make. Addressing his readers, editor and publisher Dale Dougherty wrote, “More than mere consumers of technology, we are makers, adapting technology […]