[mtraven]

Well, there's http://arxiv.org .

And of course, anyone can put anything they want on the internet, which is a form of publishing into the public domain. If you mean, publish in such a way as to get read and become part of the academic literature, that's another story.

[keeptrying]

I'm talking about fully peer reviewed with conferences and the whole shebang ... Its really the only way to get that knowledge out into the public domain.