If we’re going to get science policy right, it’s really important for us to study the economic benefit of open access and not accept the arguments of incumbents. Existing media companies claim that they need ever stronger and longer copyright protection and new, draconian laws to protect them, and meanwhile, new free ecosystems, like the Web, have actually led to enormous wealth creation and enormous new opportunities for social value. And yes, they did in fact lead in some cases to the destruction of incumbents, but that’s the kind of creative destruction that we should celebrate in the economy. We have to accept that, particularly in the area of science, there’s an incredible opportunity for open access to enable new business models.
"embrace open access over copyright"
"the possible architectures for creating a truly decentralized Internet-Scale virtual environment, as opposed to the classic ‘grid’ OpenSim/Second Life model where simulators are distributed but services (assets, inventory, users) are centralized. Naturally, initiatives such as Crista Lopes’ Hypergrid play a large part in these considerations."
International Society for Design and Development in Education Journal for Design and Development in Education
University of Oregon's Open Access e-journal hosting at UO Libraries
eLearn magazine: best practices, case studies, tutorials, reviews, research, blogs
International Journal of Architectural Computing (Volume 7, Number 1 / January 2009): issue on cultural heritage architecture in 3D virtual spaces
Visual Resources Journal (December 2009): "Digital Crossroada: New directions in 3D Architectural Modeling in the Humanities"
Danah Boyd & Nicole Ellison's "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship"
Mark Ware on Web2.0 and scholarly communications
I.T. for escience report from UW