Science Commons in the person of Donna Wentworth have done an interview with me as part of their series on “Voices from the Future of Science”.

Among other things, I talked about what we can learn from the open source movement (Debian of Data anyone), current status and future plans for CKAN, and why we shouldn’t rely on Google to ‘take care of everything’.

If you want to know more check out the full post at:

http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/08/18/voices-from-the-future-of-science-rufus-pollock-of-the-open-knowledge-foundation/

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