Topic “interdisciplinarity”

Tying Up Loose Ends: How I Came to Be Studying Open Culture

Submitted by brad on Sat, 10/11/2008 - 19:36

While kick starting this new blog, I cross-posted two of my recent posts at gnovis which directly discussed Open Culture. However, I've also done a great deal of work over the last two years that, while less directly related, has led me to undertake this project, so I wanted to tie up loose ends a little and provide a little background on how I arrived at this point. I'll comment further on this at the end.

Some of the posts below come from gnovis, and others from my my personal blog.

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