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Monday, March 12th, 2007

I’m in New York for the OpenData conference. This is going to be great!

Open Call for Participation in March 13 Open Data Conference in NYC

It is so easy to get excited about the latest Web 2.0 online media applications that we often lose sight of the fact that underneath all of these innovations is a fundamentally different kind of operating system, one based on open data as opposed to closed proprietary content. If I had to sum it up in a sentence:Open Data is to media what Open Source is to technology. On Tuesday March 13, more than sixty…

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