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- Elinor Ostrom's Principles for Managing a Commons (2011) https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons 15 comments
- "Online Collaboration Goes Legit" - Vermont's new virtual corporations http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2336 7 comments
- Ayn Rand vs. Adam Smith - Health care debate depends on whether you believe compassion is a virtue or a vice http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/ayn-rand-vs-adam-smith 4 comments politics
- When It Comes to Public Services, Government Knows Best | One city shifting 180 bus shelters back into public hands is a minor development with a one-day news life. But it reflects a much larger story, the growing reevaluation by governments of the efficacy of privatizing public services. http://onthecommons.org/magazine/when-it-comes-public-services-government-knows-best 51 comments politics
- Just as public school systems have widely adopted the Microsoft model in order to win the Race to the Top, it turns out that Microsoft now realizes that this model has pushed Microsoft itself into a Race to the Bottom. http://onthecommons.org/magazine/what%E2%80%99s-good-bill-gates-turns-out-be-bad-public-schools 4 comments politics
- Time is Running Out to Save the Post Office: 5 steps to revive a valuable public institution—and why it matters http://onthecommons.org/magazine/time-running-out-save-post-office 29 comments politics
- Is the Super Bowl Socialist? By any definition, the February 5 Super Bowl in Republican-dominated Indiana is socialist from head to toe. http://www.onthecommons.org/super-bowl-socialist 5 comments politics
- Why is the Most Wasteful Government Agency Not Part of the Deficit Discussion? | In 2011 military spending accounted for more than 58 percent of all federal discretionary spending and even more if the interest on the federal debt that is related to military spending were added. http://onthecommons.org/why-most-wasteful-government-agency-not-part-deficit-discussion 5 comments politics
- Year in and year out, the loyal Cleveland fans braved snowstorms to watch the mostly dismal Browns perform. The next year, Modell moved his privately owned team to Baltimore. http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2558 5 comments sports
- The General Accounting Office concluded that the federal government can make direct loans to students for $1.70 per $100 loaned, as opposed to the $9.20 per $100 that private banks charge. http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2506 28 comments politics
- Myriad Genetics, a private company in Salt Lake City, owns a patent on two breast cancer genes. If you happen to be a medical researcher, don’t bother trying to study these genes. It would violate Myriad Genetics’ patent. http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2481 163 comments science
- Copyright law is not a natural, inevitable system for regulating culture; it’s a belief-system every bit as much as Christianity or Islam. http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2480 3 comments politics
- You say unauthorized hyperlinks are a violation of copyright? Then take your f***ing content off the web! http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2478 141 comments programming
- How Girl Talk hasn't gotten sued yet http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2148 6 comments technology
- Farmers in third-world countries are being hauled into court - for breeding their own seeds. http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=961 104 comments worldnews
- How Craigslist consistently ranks as one of the top ten most-visited websites http://onthecommons.org/profile.php?id=1894 7 comments technology
- Why so much suburban sprawl? After WWII, single use zoning laws deemed corner stores, offices and even diners a threat to nearby homes. http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2093 14 comments politics
- A blue-collar machinist from upstate New York has become the self-appointed scourge of the Web advertising industry. http://onthecommons.org/profile.php?id=2023 155 comments technology
- Could a shift to greener technologies exacerbate racial inequality? This guy thinks so. http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1140 2 comments technology
- "Sousveillance" - using cheap, portable technologies to monitor the powers that be. http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2014 26 comments technology
- There used to be 10,000 varieties of apples in the US. This man is trying to bring them back. http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2007 6 comments science
- Taking down traffic signs causes dramatic declines in car accidents. http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1998 150 comments science
- Fair Use Is Dead: Quoting just five words from an Associated Press article costs you $12.50. http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2006 10 comments politics
- Text message censorship: Verizon blocks texts they consider too "controversial" for transmission on their network. http://onthecommons.org/content.php?id=1794 4 comments reddit.com
- Melancholy Elephants - short sci-fi story about finiteness of creativity http://onthecommons.org/node/686?phpsessid=2b9b915c72bb6a7b9e32027241ae07a8 7 comments reddit.com