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Ivan Beeckmans

The disappearing virtual library - Opinion - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

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shared by Ivan Beeckmans on 05 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • But both are missing the point: the global demand for learning and scholarship is not being met by the contemporary publishing industry. It cannot be, not with the current business models and the prices. The users of library.nu - these barbarians at the gate of the publishing industry and the university - are legion.
  • They are a global market engaged in what we in the elite institutions of the world are otherwise telling them to do all the time: educate yourself; become scholars and thinkers; read and think for yourselves; bring civilisation, development and modernity to your people.
  • Library.nu was making that learning possible where publishers have not
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  • But the legality of library.nu is also not the issue: trading in scanned, leaked or even properly purchased versions of digital books is thoroughly illegal. This is so much the case that it can't be long before reading a book - making an unauthorised copy in your brain - is also made illegal. 
  • not stealing
  • The winter of 2012 has seen a series of assaults on file-sharing sites in the wake of the failed SOPA and PIPA legislation. Mega-upload.com (the brainchild of eccentric master pirate Kim Dotcom - he legally changed his name in 2005) was seized by the US Department of Justice; torrent site btjunkie.com voluntarily closed down for fear of litigation.
  • Jeff Utecht on 05 Mar 12
     
     Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it down. Library.nu (formerly Gigapedia) had offered, if the reports are to be believed, between 400,000 and a million digital books for free. 
Ian Gabrielson

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments - 0 views

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shared by Ian Gabrielson on 04 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Ian Gabrielson on 04 Nov 13
     
    "This book is aimed at newcomers to the field of logical reasoning, particularly those who, to borrow a phrase from Pascal, are so made that they understand best through visuals. I have selected a small set of common errors in reasoning and visualized them using memorable illustrations that are supplemented with lots of examples. The hope is that the reader will learn from these pages some of the most common pitfalls in arguments and be able to identify and avoid them in practice."
Ivan Beeckmans

Photo Books, Photo Cards, Scrapbooks, Yearbooks and Calendars | Mixbook - 1 views

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shared by Ivan Beeckmans on 12 May 12 - Cached
  • Ivan Beeckmans on 12 May 12
     
    Just another tool.
Katy Vance

Learning - Literacy | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS - 0 views

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shared by Katy Vance on 01 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Katy Vance on 01 Mar 13
     
    Digital Nation - PBS video, features Mark Prensky talking about changing literacies in a digital world
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