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It was interesting to see this short article 1about the enclosure of the web commons go by after just having listenedto The Dig’s epic two part interview with Peter Linebaugh2.
What’s needed is a multi-stakeholder settlement in which large-scaleusers of the commons take on long-term, structured obligations tosustain it: contractual funding through paid APIs and usage-basedlevies, formal recognition of DPGs as Digital Public...

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week.
�Learning How to Learn: Abduction as the ‘Missing Link’ in MachineLearning
In this paper, the question of machine learning is revisited in order toexplore whether Bayesian learning, as a form of abductive reasoning, canprovide an alternative to the current dichotomy between inductive anddeductive approaches in machine learning...

The newsabout Cloudflare’s new pay-per-crawlAPI caught my attention for a few reasons. Read on for why, a bitabout what the results look like, and what I learned when I asked it tocrawl my own site as a test.
So, the first reason this news was of interest is how Cloudflare’s Crawlhelped people crawl websites with their bots, while at the sametime providing one of the most popular technologies for preventingwebsites from being crawled by bots....