So you're thinking of creating an open source community around your code? Here are some things you ought to know before you make your plans too firm.Community Types: There is no single "open source community." Rather, there are many groups of people gathered around many free software commons. Those gatherings are themselves of several different types; you really need to understand those differences.Payment at the Point of Value: Open source is of course free softwar...

Pi is the controlling constant for circles, globes, orbits, the inverse square power distribution and many of the other fundamental aspects of our universe. This ebook is an effort to put forward the idea that a better understanding of pi is required. The entire knowledge base of our understanding of science could be greatly changed with additional efforts in the study of pi.

This book gets you thinking at heart about what a website is supposed to do (turn visitors into customers) and how exactly it does it. Websites are more than simply pretty brochures. It's far better to think of them as "sales machines". And of course, you want your sales machine to work well. This book talks about that!

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This invaluable glossary of terms can be used alongside Doug's brilliant new book, How to Start a Creative Business, a must-have for any creative-type wanting to start their own venture. This glossary of terms provides you with the basic tools for starting a sustainable, viable, creative business. It shows you that the 'business terms' that you need to know for your creative business do not have to be scary or confusing, they are all easy to understand and will be invaluable for s...

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator and documentary filmmaker, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great democratizing force of our age.The Internet has been hailed as a place where all can be heard and everyone can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In a seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, The People's Platform argues that for all that we "tweet" and "like" and "share," the Internet in fact reflects and ...

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched for and when. The digital realm remembers what is sometimes better forgotten and this has profound implications for ...

The Language of Content Strategy is the gateway to a language that describes the world of content strategy. With fifty-two contributors, all known for their depth of knowleEA Digital (delivered electronically)e, this set of terms forms the core of an emerging profession and, as a result, helps shape the profession. The terminology spans a range of competencies with the broad area of content strategy.This book, and its companion website, is an invitation to readers to join ...

Are you a solo web designer or part of a small team itching to build interesting projects with Drupal? This hands-on book provides the tools and techniques to get you going. Award-winning designer Dani Nordin guides you through site planning, teaches you how to create solid, user-centered design for the Drupal framework, and shows you tricks for using real, honest-to-goodness, developer Ninja Magick.This book is a compilation of three short guides—Planning Drupal Projects,...

Confronting the digital revolution in academia, this book examines the application of new computational techniques and visualisation technologies in the Arts & Humanities. Uniting differing perspectives, leading and emerging scholars discuss the theoretical and practical challenges that computation raises for these disciplines.

Perspectives on the voice and technology, from discussions of voice mail and podcasts to reflections on dance and sound poetry.Voice has returned to both theoretical and artistic agendas. In the digital era, techniques and technologies of voice have provoked insistent questioning of the distinction between the human voice and the voice of the machine, between genuine and synthetic affect, between the uniqueness of an individual voice and the social and cultural for...

Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today. Topics and features: provides a history of the VISA system from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s; presents a historical narrative based on research gathered from personal documents and interviews with key actors; investi...