Writings

Information Economy

See also my upcoming book »

• Why Open Source Software Matters for Government and Civic Tech (and how to support it) - July 2016
• The Value of the Public Domain (PDF) - November 2006
  • Post: https://rufuspollock.com/2006/11/27/the-value-of-the-public-domain/
• Putting Open at the Heart of the Digital Age - June 2015
• A Data Revolution that Works for All of Us - re Open Data and International Development - September 2014
• The Knowledge Commons is Different - October 2009 (2009)
• Copyright is a Monopoly and Isn't like Normal Property - January 2011
• How Long Should Copyright Last - September 2009
• [Web 2.0 and the Ethics of Sharing - September 2007](http://rufuspollock.com/2007/09/18/talk-at-law-20-openness-web-20-and-the-ethic-of-sharing/
  • Dictator and the Anarchist Excerpt - September 2007
• How Open is Google - March 2008
• Defaults for IP Policy - Jan 2006
• Information Technology's Inbuilt Progressive Politics

This Information Age - A History in Bits of Bits inf History

• A History in Bits - sketches of a book on information in history - February 2009

Data Systems

• https://blog.okfn.org/2013/07/02/git-and-github-for-data/
  • (Local version: http://rufuspollock.com/2013/07/02/git-and-github-for-data/)
• http://rufuspollock.com/2007/01/17/thinking-about-annotation/

Misc

• http://rufuspollock.com/2008/03/02/optimal-size-of-nations-and-organizations/