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A blog from the NYTimes about fair use and copyright when it comes to remixing content

Nicholas Carr's Blog

As Clay Shirky states: "human nature has turned out to be fairly context sensitive...enough people's behavior becomes antisocial enoughto wreck things for everyone." Programs like this one will not work unless people are motivated to make it succeed.

Clay Shirkys blog on the book. There are some very interesting posts, I'd take a look at the one titled "Gin, Television, and Social Surplus".

A recommended blog post from Lawrence Lessig about "Unmixing."

This is a post on the popular blog Boing Boing showing a sign in a public library giving reasons for why the Internet can't replace libraries.

A social loan experience for the future of journalism? 

Peter Morville's blog

Our book talked a lot about Wikipedia and the process of errors encouraging more people to edit. I thought it was kind of funny to see the biggest mess ups Wikipedia has had.

This is also an example of what we were talking about yesterday. We can write the biography of anyone in an online encyclopedia where most people go for references..talk about power.

In Britain, a new austerity budget has threatened massive library closures across the country, with some communities in danger of ending up with no public library at all. Philip Pullman's local chief counsellor accused authors of defending libraries because they like the royalties they earn from the books libraries buy. In response, Pullman has given this stirring speech about the value of libraries to their communities and to civilization

An interesting call to use alternatives to press releases, when publishing's so easy to do, these days...

I just thought this was interesting considering the discussions over minds changing and also how science continually changes and also about how we are teaching our kids...