Literacy & Publicacy

Literacy and publicacy go hand-in-hand. The way I see the relationship between literacy and publicacy goes like this: Literacy is the ability to know what others have made public; Publicacy is the ability to know how to make something public. I think eventually the Twentieth Century will go down in history as a strange time… Continue reading Literacy & Publicacy

How Censorship Can Be Particularly Damaging to Open Source Projects

Upon returning from a WordPress Congress last week (namely WordCamp Europe 2025 in Basel, Switzerland), I had some reservations concerning in the WordPress community’s evolving cultural norms. This week, these reservations became even more rampant as I became aware of signs that some of my own views may be being censored. Censorship is always a… Continue reading How Censorship Can Be Particularly Damaging to Open Source Projects

Proprietary Contexts vs. Free Market Contexts

This is a topic which I have yet to see adequately addressed, at least to some degree (perhaps) simply because we cannot address it … insofar as there is no appropriate language for it, there is no appropriate vocabulary. Quite a few years ago, I wrote (vaguely) about this on my personal blog (see “Auctions… Continue reading Proprietary Contexts vs. Free Market Contexts

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