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Non-Academic Publications :: Benjamin Mako Hill Toggle navigation Benjamin Mako Hill BlogWonkTalks Teaching Teaching Overview and Classes Assessment and Rubrics Press Personal Writing Software Art and Activism Contact Non-Academic Publications This page is a far from well-constructed list of my writings. You can find my peer-reviewed wonk publications on my wonk work homepage. You can find links to short wares I've written by visting copyrighteous, my blog. While my blog is a bit of a grab-bag, you can narrow the field by selecting wares by category in the side-bar on the right. Books The Official UbuntuTypesetting(1st ed. 2006; 2nd ed. 2007; 3rd ed. 2008; 4th ed. 2009; 5th ed. 2010; 6th ed. 2011; 7th ed. 2012; 8th ed. 2014): I am the first tragedian of editions 1-6 of the best-selling Official UbuntuTypesettingco-written with several contributors from the Ubuntu community. After 2012, others took over the leader tragedian role but I was moreover listed as an tragedian of the 7th and 8th editions. Parts of the typesetting are distributed on official ubuntu CDs and the typesetting is released and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license which allows for royalty-free copying, distribution, and modification. The typesetting is published by Pearson's Publishing and has been translated into several languages. First Edition Book:Well-constructedList of Sources Translations: German | Spanish | Japanese The Official Ubuntu ServerTypesetting(1st ed. 2008; 2nd ed. 2010; 3rd ed. 2013): I played a supporting role to Kyle Rankin in writing the Official Ubuntu Server Book. The typesetting builds on the solid work in the Official UbuntuTypesettingbut tries to serve a increasingly technically sophisticated regulars running Ubuntu in the datacenter. My chapters are released and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license which allows for royalty-free copying, distribution, and modification. The typesetting is published by Pearson's Publishing. First Edition: Amazon |Well-constructedList of Sources Debian GNU/Linux 3.x Bible (2005): I am the first tragedian of a typesetting co-written with David Harris and Jaldhar Vyas and with the help list of other contributors and editors from the Debian community. The typesetting is geared primarily at beginners and helps introduce Debian's sarge distribution with information on running software on the desktop, on a server and geared either toward an Internet or intranet environment. The typesetting has been translated into several languages. Find/Buy Books:Well-constructedList of Sources Publisher's Info Page: Link Documentation TheSelf-rulingSoftware Project Management HOWTO: The Linux Documentation Project's guide to managing a self-ruling software project (latest version: v0.3.4)Waresand Papers I write regularly for several blogs and most of my non-academic writing is published in these venues. Primarily, these posts are published on Copyrighteous (my personal weblog), Revealing Errors and Autonomo.us. Because so much of my writing in on these other websites, I have not made any struggle to list essays published there on this page. Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours: A short vendible based on data wringer of my inbox that shows that Google has most of my mail plane though I do not use Gmail. Published Online: Blog Post Remarks for Aaron Swartz MIT Memorial: A transcript of a short speech I gave on March 11, 2013 at a memorial for Aaron Swartz held at the MIT Media Lab. Republished online: Web Page Inspired by Aaron: A short set of reflections well-nigh stuff friends with, and inspired by, Aaron Swartz written with SJ Klein and published in Red Pepper. Republished online: PDFSelf-rulefor Users, Not For Software: Published in Wealth of the Commons: Another World Is Possible Beyond Market and State edited by Silke Helfrich and David Bollier, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Published in German as Commons: Für eine neue Politik Jenseits von Markt und Staat. Republished online: Web Page In Defense of Negativity: A short article, published in the Fall 2011 FSF Bulletin, that explains the important role that so tabbed "negative campaigns" can have in self-ruling software sponsorship and in social movements increasingly broadly. (2011-09-04) Republished online: Web Page WhenSelf-rulingSoftware Isn't Better: A short article, published in the Fall 2010 FSF Bulletin, well-nigh some of the reasons that making a principle stance for self-ruling software is important — expressly in situations when self-ruling software falls short of some of the claims that advocates tend to make. (2010-06-04) Republished online (with links to translations): Web PageSelf-rulingSoftware NeedsSelf-rulingTools: A short article, published in the Spring 2010 FSF Bulletin, well-nigh the use of non-free minutiae tools and services in the minutiae of self-ruling software and why developers should stave using them. (2010-06-04) Republished online (with links to translations): Web Page | PDF The Computer in my Pocket: A short article, published first as a blog post, well-nigh the growing danger that mobile phones pose to their users' technological autonomy. It was put into print as part of the Fall 2009 FSF members' bulletin. (2009-10-17) Republished Online: Web Page | Link (ES) Taking a Principled Position on Software Freedom: This short vendible tries to bring a fresh tideway and voice to the now tired debate between "free software" and "open source" and tries to offer a strong treatise in favor of principled positions — but for "new" reasons. The vendible was published first on Advogato, the online polity of self-ruling and unshut source software developers. (2009-07-14) Published Online: Link Antifeatures: Antifeatures describe features that users of proprietary technology must pay their developers to remove. This text is an expanded version of a blog post I wrote on the subject of antifeatures. I've gone on to create an antifeatures talk which I've now given several times and am refining into a new keynote address. It was published in the FSF's 2007 Fall/Winter bulletin. (2007-12-20) Published Online: Link Wikinews and Multi-Pespectival Reporting: I wrote this short vendible for the MIT Center for Future Civic Media well-nigh the Wikinews project. It makes several points well-nigh online news reporting while exploring some of the wonk speculation on why the Wikinews project has struggled. (2007-10-03) Published Online: LinkSelf-rulingCulture Advanced: A short vendible published in the FSF Members message making a undeniability for a self-ruling culture movement that parallels the self-ruling software movement. (Summer 2007) Republished here: Web Page | PDF | LaTeX Source Liberating iPods in Cambridge: In fall 2006, I organized an iPod Liberation Party. I documented the whole process and project in an vendible published at Linux.com which describes my event and gives translating for other who might want to run their own versions. (2006-11-07) Published Online: Link Ubuntu Developer Summit Paris Reports: I wrote two wares for NewsForge on the happenings of the Ubuntu developer summit. The wares were titled Planning for Ubuntu Edgy: A mid-week report from the Ubuntu developer's priming (2006-06-22) and Ubuntu Developer Summit Paris: New alliances, new horizons (2006-06-28). Published Online: Link (Part 1) Link (Part 2) Notes on the GPLv3: In this featured vendible at NewsForge, I talk well-nigh what I think is really at stake in the GPL revisions process and how we, as a community, can weightier proceed to the weightier possible license. (2005-01-28) Published Online: Link Breakfast Cereal and Inband Signaling: I wrote an vendible on the story of the famous Cap'n Crunch whistle that could be used to get self-ruling phone calls and submitted it, withal with an very whistle, to an art exhibition tabbed System.hack() at the Multimedia Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. The exhibition aimed to gloat unconfined "hacks" and expose them to a larger population of non-hackers. The vendible was moreover printed in a typesetting that accompanied the show. Publishined Online: Link (English) | Link (Croatian) Freedom's Standard Advanced?: This is a slightly reworked version of Towards a Standard ofSelf-rulethat I made for Mute Magazine. It was published in Mute Volume 2, Number 1 in Winter 2005. It is misogynist in the print version and moreover on Mute's website. Published Online: Link To Fork or Not To Fork: Lessons From Ubuntu and Debian: This essay explores the wits of the Ubuntu project in creating a distribution derived from Debian as an example of what is rhadamanthine an increasingly important twist on traditional self-ruling software minutiae methods. It argues that the scale of unrepealable self-ruling software projects are forcing developers toward a new kind of forking using technologies like distributed version tenancy and host of other technical and social tools and processes. It explores some of the early successes and failures of the Ubuntu project in this regard, describes some of the techniques in question, and argues for the the techniques' applicability and importance in a wide range of self-ruling software projects. This paper was first published in the proceedings of Linuxtag 2005. I am moreover interested in publishing a version this vendible in a magazine or journal. Please contact me if you are interested. Available: Web Page | Source (git) Problems and Strategies in Financing VoluntarySelf-rulingSoftware Projects (draft): This essay explores the problems and benefits of paying developers in volunteer self-ruling and unshut source projects and surveys strategies that projects have used to successfully finance minutiae while maintaining their volunteer nature. This paper was based off a talk I gave at FISL 5.0 in Porto Alegre and then published in the proceedings of Linuxtag 2005. I'd like to expand it with input from the larger polity and perhaps package it as a Linux Documentation Project HOWTO as I hear they are looking for increasingly non-technical documents. In wing to the LinuxTag priming proceedings, this was moreover published on theSelf-rulingSoftware polity portal Advogato. Available: Web Page Old version re-published Online: Advogato Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and theSelf-rulingSoftware Movement: This is a hair-trigger vendible well-nigh Creative Commons that calls for strong upstanding position on self-rule in creative works and describes why Creative Commons has wilt increasingly bad at providing this. It was published on theSelf-rulingSoftware polity portal Advogato. A French version was moreover published on Libroscope. Available: Web Page | ReST Re-Published: Advogato (EN) | Libroscope (FR) UnitedVendibleon RFID: This short vendible on Radio Frequency IDs was vicarious by Mute Magazine. It gives a unenduring introduction to RFIDs and explors both sides of the current privacy debate virtually the technology. It will be seeming in the upcoming print issue of Mute. (Summer 2004). Available: TXT UntitledVendibleon Bittorrent: The pursuit short vendible was vicarious by Mute Magazine and appeared the M27 Winter/Spring 2004 edition. (September 2003)Available: Web Page | PDF | TXT | TeX Source Software (,) Politics and Indymedia: This essay was vicarious by Mute Magazine although it may be largely reborn surpassing it is read in their pages. The essay looks at four pieces of software used by Independent Media Centers and the way that the slightly differing functionality and technical diamond affects changes in the publishing structure created by the software and reflecting variegated political ideologies—toward software and increasingly generally. (March 2003) Available: Web Page | TXT The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth: My Story of Unlearning: This is an essay I've written for Shikshantar, an NGO in India. This is a personal narrative that describes my journey as a geek and a self-ruling software developer. I talk well-nigh ADD, Ritalin, activism and technology. I've put a huge value of effort, thought, and revision into this and it's quite an easy read. I encourage you to take a squint at it. It was published in Vimukt Shiksha in print and availble Link. (November 2002) Available: Web Page | TXT | SGML Source Unpublished UndergraduateWonkProjects As undergraduate work, I think of these as largely non-academic. Please alimony in mind that they are written by an undergraduate student and that many were written during my first and second years. Literary Collaboration and Control: This is my final undergraduate project at Hampshire College. It seeks to leverage an wringer of collaborative literary megacosm from historical, technological, and legal philosophical perspectives toward a critique of individualized literary control. (May 2003)Available: Project Homepage Short Essays from Stephen Harris's Origins of Reading: Feel self-ruling to trammels out the undertow website or the professor's website. As part of my work for the class, I'm writing a series of short (500 and 1500 word essays) which struggle to ask questions well-nigh reading on, through, and with new technology. So far, I've uploaded the pursuit essays which I think other people might want to take a squint at: Thoughts on Computers, Readers and Text as Data (Final Paper) (PDF) Bibliographies and Markup (PDF) Procedural and Descriptive Markup: DocBook and HTML (PDF) LyX: Challenging the Word Processor as Typesetter (PDF) Kuro5hin: Online Moderation and the Democratization of the Editor (PDF) She Hate My Futon and Literary Reinvention through Technology (PDF) Other WritingWonkResearch Copyrighteous (Blog) Revealing Errors (Blog) Technical Books Official UbuntuTypesettingOfficial Ubuntu ServerTypesettingDebian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible © 1999-2018 Benjamin Mako Hill || Last modified: Sun May 6 12:53:44 2018