An archive of the crowdsourcing effort to record Lawrence Lessig's book, Free Culture. Nice demonstration of the process and the success of open content. This post was the inspiration for the creation of Librivox.org (see http://librivox.org/about)
This website should be a part of everyone's digital literacy. Rip the audio from Youtube videos with no viruses. I can't count how many times I've used it (legally). It's a great little website and I'm sure you'll enjoy it too.
Today we have a modern equivalent of the printing press in the Internet and all that it means. The Internet allows everyone to be a publisher, to have their voice heard,
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New Media is facilitating a world-wide conversation on almost every subject including religion, and nearly everyone can participate. This modern equivalent of the printing press is not reserved only for the elite.
may I ask that you join the conversation by participating on the Internet, particularly the New Media, to share the gospel and to explain in simple, clear terms the message of the Restoration
we have a major responsibility as Latter-day Saints to define ourselves, instead of letting others define us
Every disciple of Christ will be most effective, and do the most good by adopting a demeanor worthy of a follower of the Savior of the world.
This is your world, the world of the future, with inventions undreamed of
that will come in your lifetime as they have in mine. How will you use these
marvelous inventions? More to the point, how will you use them to further the
work of the Lord?
The printing press and other media have allowed us to take the Lord’s message to
almost every corner of the earth.
Make sure that the choices you make in the use of new media are choices that
expand your mind, increase your opportunities, and feed your soul.
I have this obsession with Russia and its authors, so this is something that I was quite excited to listen to as I worked around my apartment today. I love Chekhov, especially his letters to his family while he was traveling around Siberia. It doesn't have a lot to do with Technology and Modern Inventions, but it has to do with expanding our learning in general.
Editorial by the President of the Authors Guild talking about because Kindle does not own the audio rights to the books, they shouldn't allow the text to speech function. However, this is a big blow to the disabled communties abilitiy to consume Kindle media.