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and computational science."
"If you need to convert files from one markup format into another, pandoc is your swiss-army knife. Pandoc can convert documents in markdown, reStructuredText, textile, HTML, or LaTeX to
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"Viewshare is a free platform for generating and customizing views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow users to experience your digital collections."
"ZotPad is an iPad client for the Zotero reference management software. The software enables reading of PDF files stored on the Zotero server with an iPad. ZotPad stores the data and files that it downloads from the Zotero server in a local cache enabling online and offline use."
"So what does a hunting economy have to say about our times?
Bowles proposes that the Internet has created all sorts of digital resources that are as fugitive and difficult to own as wild game on the hoof. No one can really make a software program all by themselves (it takes a lot of people to make one), and it is difficult to own software privately (because it is so easily copied and therefore very expensive to “fence in” as private property). "
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The question for our time, Bowles proposed: “Is software application more like a kudu or a cow?” Meaning, can software really be practically owned, like a cow? Or does it just make more sense for it to be shared, like a kudu?
Bowles speculates that technological advances (such as software and other digital innovations) and new types of “between-group competition” can over time make new types of property rights regimes more attractive. Strict private property rights may not make as much sense if software and social networking websites and other online information resources resembles kudu.
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So what sorts of governance systems emerge in the simulations?
Bowles found that if property rights are well defined, then the “bourgeois” faction will prevail and become an “evolutionary stable strategy,” meaning it will resists displacement by other approaches. Moreover, the winning group (of bourgeois individuals) will then provide the cultural model that losing agents will emulate. However, if property rights become ambiguous – perhaps because new technologies make them more problematic – then the “civics” can feasibly ally with the “sharers” to become the default equilibrium strategy.
Based on his simulations, Bowles found that communities can handle ambiguities of property rights more readily than state- and market-based systems, but they tend not to prevail when there are already inequalities among people. Interestingly, the digital economy creates both – substantial ambiguity and contestability about property rights (think digital music, film and text), but also high levels of inequality (because in networked economies, dominant players enjoy strong feedback loops and benefit from winner-take-all dynamics).
"I’ve written several times about an amazing, but sometimes baffling software application for handling notes called Tinderbox. This seems to be the main reason people visit this site, so to make it a little easier for you to find those posts, I am creating this page with links to each post in chronologic order:"
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