Thing 24 - Revolution OS

This documentary is a history of the "open source movement" or free software - how it began and why. It also deals with the origins and development of Linux. The documentary brings up philosophical issues like issues of community building, sharing and creativity. During the '70s and '80s there was a lot of collaboration between people writing software code. Then when Microsoft came along the code became proprietary and this practice wasn't as wide spread. Also featured in the film are interviews with prominent people involved in the movement.

Week 9, Thing 23

I enjoyed my journey through 23 things. I feel that I now know more about different technologies that I only had heard about but never experienced. I would definitely participate if another discovery program was offered in the future. Some of my favorite exercises were week 3 exploring Flickr and week 5 playing with an online image generator. I found that I took longer to complete the assignments than I thought I would, but that was my choice. I completed some exercises more quickly when I didn't look at each discovery resource and went straight to the discovery exercise.

Week 9, Thing 22

I looked at the Overdrive site and found a lot of current titles to download. I do like to listen to audio books on long car rides, but otherwise I prefer the paper copy of a book. However, not as many titles can be downloaded to a CD which I would use in my car. Project Gutenberg is useful for finding titles now under public domain. I did not know that it also includes music, some video and sheet music.