Cathy Wang

If we have to talk about open source media, we would definitely have to look at pegasusnews

Pegasus News is a local news company that has reinvented the broken content and business model of daily newspapers. We are launching in Dallas, Texas, in 2005 with a hyper-local, news-rich website that will have as many editions as it does users. Within a month of launch, the most broadly interesting and immediate content from that site will be published in a daily tabloid print newspaper. Once we have achieved key benchmarks with the Dallas product, we will leverage our scalable systems to roll out in every top-25 U.S. market with a monopoly newspaper.

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In a sense I feel like they are promoting a varieties of ways to get news to people. If we want to build our own open source media, I think it’s … Read More »

USATODAY.com – Green chemistry takes root

(Via WorldChanging.)

If we look at the concept of green chemistry I think we can look at it as an open source technology going around in the field of nature laws. Chemistry and particles exist as a platform and scientists can make iteration of them. To have the person be responsible for the chemistry invented is a way of ensure responsibility boundaries.

After reading Microsoft To Patent Instructional Feedback To User Responses – Robin Good’s Latest News I started wondering if the emergence system described in the Microsoft’s attempt is killing open source?

Nonetheless, we do face creative common/copyright issues while dealing with open source don’t we?

Can we consider this as an emergence system?

The abstract of the patent request summarizes:

“A system and method for providing instructional responses to unstructured user input is presented. In operation, a task is presented to a user. In response to the task, the user inputs unstructured input onto a computing device. In response to the input, a determination is made as to whether an instructional response should be presented to the user. If so, the response is presented to the user. Determining whether a response should be made to the user is made according to the accuracy of … Read More »