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American University law professor and madisonian.net contributor Mike Carroll asked me to post a link to the annual fundraising drive for Creative Commons, where Mike has been a board member since its founding.  Happy to!
Here is Mike’s pitch.  To donate and to read more, click over to the Creative Commons site:
Dear Friends –
I’m asking you [...]

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I am a big fan of the Planet Money series on NPR. Any student struggling with the economic aspects of business associations can use Planet Money and NPR’s other financial series, Marketplace, to get grasp of what is going on. Marketplace tends to focus on the day’s events. PM takes a little time and explores [...]

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Those of us with interests in common property regimes and new institutional economics are buzzing this morning over the news that Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson are being awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics.   Here is the text of the press release:
12 October 2009
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The [...]

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Or so he reportedly told Teen Vogue in an interview:
Seeing strangers in your designs must be an everyday occurrence for you now. Is it still exciting?
Yes! To me, it’s the greatest compliment. Even when I see a copy, something that’s inspired by something I’ve done, it’s a rewarding feeling. Because that’s why I do what [...]

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I spent last week in Amsterdam, enjoying the city as a result of an invitation to speak at an international conference on urban planning: Morgen/Tomorrow: International Urban Planning Congress Amsterdam. I spoke about Pittsburgh; others spoke about Chicago, Mumbai, London, Helsinki, Rotterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Hamburg, and Tirana. We also heard quite a bit about [...]

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Table of Contents
Editorial

Extending transformation
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TWC Editor

Theory

The labor of creativity: Women’s work, quilting, and the uncommodified life
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Debora J Halbert

Sex detectives: “Law & Order: SVU”’s fans, critics, and characters investigate lesbian desire
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Julie Levin Russo

On productivity and game fandom
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Hanna Wirman

Praxis

Sites of participation: Wiki fandom and the case of Lostpedia
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Jason Mittell

Identity and authenticity in the filk [...]

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“The Beatles: Rock Band” is due for release a week from today, together with a newly remastered set of  CDs of the Beatles’ albums.   That’s news to just about no one in the entertainment field, whether on the consumer side, the producer side, or the observer side.
The game and the remastered CDs arrive at a fascinating [...]

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This won’t surprise anybody who actually pays attention to the climate of the editing discussions on many wikipedia pages. This blog post notes:
According to the The Wall Street Journal, the survey took place in November of last year, with results being presented last week at a conference in Buenos Aires. A total of 53,888 respondents [...]

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Wikipedia will begin imposing a layer of editorial review on articles about living people. From the NYT:
… Although Wikipedia has prevented anonymous users from creating new articles for several years now, the new flagging system crosses a psychological Rubicon. It will divide Wikipedia’s contributors into two classes — experienced, trusted editors, and everyone else — [...]

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It appears that the Netflix Prize has been won. 
Thet Netflix Prize is a $1 million prize being offered by Netflix for development of a “movie recommendation system” that is 10% better than Netflix’s own Cinematch system as predicting the movie preferences of Netflix subscribers.  [Older story from the NYTimes here.]  From the prize website, here are [...]

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