Carl Malamud: "10 Rules for Radicals"

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Carl Malamud: "10 Rules for Radicals"

Michael Mulley
Lessons and anecdotes from a longtime advocate of the digital public
domain in the States.

http://www.archive.org/details/org.resource.public.10rules

Several good bits in there, but the title struck me first. You don't
often see the word "radical" in relation to open-data activism, which
is pretty deeply technocratic and, I'd thought, quite committed to the
idea that open data isn't radical, that it's largely about efficiency
and collaboration within current power structures. (That's the main
criticism of open-data activism I've seen around the Web and posted
here: that it's too narrow, that it ignores context and avoids the
hard work.) So it's interesting to see the word (and the reference to
Saul Alinsky) crop up from one of the big names in online access to
information.