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Nigel Robertson

Relative cost - Movies, TV Shows, Songs, and Textbooks - 0 views

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    Wiley shows how astronomical the cost of online textbooks is.
Nigel Robertson

What's at Stake in the San Diego Round of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - 0 views

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    Article on the proposed copyright provisions in the TransPacific Partnership which directly affects NZ.
Nigel Robertson

A Rough Guide To Musical Anthropology (paper) - 0 views

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    "As the world becomes increasingly more connected to media, the consumption of music as cultural goods rises as well. It is speculative to assume that this proven increase in quantity will make music a more central part of peoples' lives, but it will certainly attract more scientific attention to the behavior and perception transformations associated with it."
Nigel Robertson

Students for Free Culture » Blog Archive » Stop the inclusion of proprietary ... - 0 views

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    Part of the debate on removing NC & ND licenses from the upcoming v4.0 Creative Commons. This argues strongly that these versions should be removed.
Stephen Harlow

Ti Point Tork » Blog Archive » Questioning University - 1 views

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    "So what do I tell my kids? Should I urge them to go to university? Should I tell them to jack it all in and run off and join a startup? This is what's occupying my mind now."
Nigel Robertson

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 1 views

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    Article on how the Finnish Equity not Excellence approach to education actually produces both and makes them a leading education nation.
Nigel Robertson

The Myth of Originality: Raiders of the Lost Archives - CogDogBlog - 0 views

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    Whoever the folks are at StooTV, they have pulled together clips of 30 action films from 1919 and 1973, and put them side by side with almost the same scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark- it is about 13 minutes of shot-by-shot comparison.
Nigel Robertson

Down the Rabbit Hole with DS106 | The Tech Savvy Educator - 1 views

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    Great description of DS106 and what it means to be creative.
Nigel Robertson

How to Liberate Your Data from Google (And Why It Matters That You Can) - 0 views

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    Data freedom - Own & control your data.
Nigel Robertson

SOPA Is a Symbol of the Movie Industry's Failure to Innovate - Steve Blank - Business -... - 0 views

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    This controversial anti-piracy legislation is all about studios and other corporations making excuses for their technological backwardness and looking out for their short-term profit
Nigel Robertson

As We May Think -Vannevar Bush - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    The classic 1945 article describing the Memex machine - a pre-cursor to hypertext linking and the web.
Nigel Robertson

Apple, iBooks Author, and Open Textbooks: RIP K-12 Publishers as We Know Them | iterati... - 0 views

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    David Wiley on why the Apple iBooks announcement is great for open textbooks - although not in the way that big publishers want or have yet perceived.
Nigel Robertson

iTunes U 2.0: Not Perfect, Just Awesome - 0 views

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    Review of the new iTunes 2.0 app for iOS. The title is more positive than the review but not sure if the reviewer realises that!
Nigel Robertson

The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan Lethem (Harper's Magazine) - 1 views

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    A brilliant piece on appropriation, sampling and remixing throughout literary, cinematic and musical history and why our notions of  property and creation have been subverted and corrupted. Published in Harpers Magazine in 2007.
Nigel Robertson

A Guide to the Occupy Wall Street API, Or Why the Nerdiest Way to Think About OWS Is So... - 0 views

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    Looking at the Occupy Wall Street protests through the eyes of a developer. An interesting examination of the components of a protest or social movement.
Stephen Harlow

Ti Point Tork » Blog Archive » Libraries: Where It All Went Wrong - 0 views

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    "I personally believe that the greatest role you [libraries] play is around the documentary national identity. People come to you to find out about their ancestors, to find out what life was like, to critically evaluate and understand the past."
Nigel Robertson

Fair Dealing's Halls of F/Sh/ame | Ariel Katz - 1 views

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    The fight against unfair copyright continues in small ways.
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