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December 4, 2012 By Michael Boezi 2 Comments

Defining Success in EdTech

Caity Doyle’s post last week (Are Most Edtech Startups Doomed to Fail?) got me thinking. What does success mean? And are we on the right track? I think of us at […]

December 3, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

The Open Argument: Is FWK open or not?

Until the end of this year, our license at FWK was CC-BY-NC-SA with an open access version (Web). Here’s a video explaining our license and why we chose it. With […]

December 1, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

McGraw-Hill Sold for a Fraction of Cengage

Great post by Thad McIlroy in his blog, “Future Of Publishing.” The numbers say it all. There’s been plenty of evidence that this industry is broken, in the micro view: […]

November 29, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

The Open Argument: Dissing the Non-Commercial Clause

There are a lot of folks who seek to get rid of the Non-Commercial clause in CC licenses, stating that they are not open. See for example, “The case against -NC.” […]

November 28, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

The Open Argument: Who owns the discussion?

Perception of the license and its uses has evolved beyond the barriers of what’s written in the Creative Commons code of law. The “open purists,” as I call them, have […]

November 26, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

The Open Argument: Does Open = Free?

Open is a license with specific use rights. It doesn’t specify anything about whether or not the IP needs to be offered for free. In this context, free is ambiguous: […]

November 20, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

The Open Argument: Some Rights Reserved

There are a lot of misconceptions about copyright. Copyright starts with the creation of a work. The creator either holds the rights to his/her IP (automatic under U.S. copyright […]

November 19, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

The Open Argument: Starting Point

A couple weeks ago, my company/employer Flat World Knowledge made a necessary shift in its business model. Here are the official company statements: Why Flat World is Moving from Free […]

November 6, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

Michael’s Voters Guide for Massachusetts

For Massachusetts voters who didn’t read up on the questions before going to the polls today, let me save you the trouble. If you generally agree with me about things: […]

October 29, 2012 By Michael Boezi Leave a Comment

Content Marketing (Infographic)

If you don’t know Copyblogger, I urge you to check them out. Consistently good content about writing, and of particular interest to me—content marketing. Content is currency — something […]