“The Open Source movement has established over the last decade a
new collaborative approach, uniquely adapted to the Internet, to
developing high-quality informational products. Initially, its
exclusive application was the development of software (GNU/Linux
and Apache are among the most prominent projects), but increasingly
we can observe this collaborative approach being applied to areas
beyond the coding of software. One such area is the collaborative
gathering and analysis of information, a practice we term ‘Open
Source Intelligence.’ In this article, we use three case studies –
the nettime mailing list, the Wikipedia project and the NoLogo Web
site – to show some the breadth of contexts and analyze the variety
of socio-technical approaches that make up this emerging
phenomenon…”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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