How about an Index of Openness?
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Wendy Seltzer asks, Which is more open: the Nokia N95 or the iPhone? Regardless of the answer, I'm wondering if there's an objective way to score openness... perhaps a kind of in-the-wild folksonomic list of deal-makers and deal-killers. Rather than bias the list, I thought I'd just put the idea out there to start with, and see what variables ya'll would like to see on the list.
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New OWB merits serious consideration
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How to uncover your own Hidden Gems.
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What if Yahoo's main value isn't its search engine or its advertising business, but the openness that makes it more Net-native and hacker-friendly than Microsoft? Does Microsoft understand that this same kind of openness plays a large role in Google's success as well? read more
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How to find the best choices in a crowded market.
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A close inspection of candidatesâ wares offers the prospect of a peek into their characters and hoped-for constituencies.
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We all have a Mr. Hyde in us. Open source helps to protect the world (and ourselves) from that side.
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Nutrition, obsession, global business:  an exploration of our second most basic desire.
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Warm, fuzzy and free, the open-source operating system is winning over both Windows and Mac users. Ready to try it? Here's what you need to know. By SeÃ¡n Captain.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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A website aims to allow patients to see how private and voluntary hospitals and health providers are performing.
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Christopher Lydon's RadioOpenSource is one of the best programs on radio. It's not about open source code, but about radio modeled on open source values and methods. As the show puts it, Open Source has become one of the most talked-about experiments in public media &#151; a civil union of online and on-air communities that trust each other to talk about pretty much anything.  \
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Blog: Which brings me to another idea: can it be that the hotel industry an indicator for the nature with which we purchase our tech toys?  If the hotel industry is lagging behind, is that a solid indication of where we are in terms of innovation?
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House Democrats hope to breathe new life into open-government legislation, marking Sunshine Week with votes to protect whistle-blowers, smooth freedom of information requests and compel presidential libraries to disclose more about their donors. Efforts to shield reporters from revealing their sources are not faring so well.
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Comment is free: Jonathan Freedland: Our progressive past can offer a new idea of what the state is for, and how it can help neighbourhood organisations to thrive.
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One great way to determine whether your digital product is destined for greatness is how many people want to steal it. The same goes for open source.
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By Kevin Saylor  Site might help break o