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"GitHub gives teachers a way of readily sharing code and coding assignments with students  as they learn the craft of building software. Teachers can also use it to teach collaborative coding, an important skill in the modern world of pair programming. Nowadays, that's how software is built."

arry Roberts Calls Himself the Founder of the Internet. Who Are You to Argue?

L'internet ou plus globalement la généralisation du numérique est-elle en train d'activer une mutation radicale de l'économie vers le tout gratuit ? C'est la thèse de Chris Anderson, le rédacteur en chef de Wired. Souvenez-vous, il y a peu, il avait déjà secoué notre perception de la distribution en exposant le modèle de la longue traîne.

Chris is expanding this article into a book, due out in May 2006. Follow his continuing coverage of the subject on The Long Tail blog. In 1988, a British mountain climber named Joe Simpson wrote a book called Touching the Void, a harrowing account of near death in the Peruvian Andes.

Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use in the US

Bruce Sterling Sterling discusses the historical response to fascism, and the current political moment with the rising tide of ultra-right populist/authoritarian political movements

The only way out of our Big Tech problem is up and through. If our future is not reliant upon high tech, it will be because civilization has fallen. Big Tech wired together a planetary, species-wide nervous system that, with the proper reforms and course corrections, is capable of seeing us through the existential challenge of our species and planet. Now it's up to us to seize the means of computation, putting that electronic nervous system under democratic, accountable control.