Open Social How To

WIRED Magazine’s editor in chief Chris Anderson, following up on the popularity of his Long Tail meme, theorizes in the March 2008 issue of WIRED about the modern tendency to put information online at no cost. I’ll start this blog with the implications of offering free information in the computer field, and build from there to what I agree and disagree with in Anderson’s article. Anderson’s taxonomy of “free” contains six models that justify giving the information away. The idea

Original post by O’Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies