April 19th, 2009 by admin | No Comments
Sometimes a book comes along at a critical moment that helps us make sense of what is happening. Keith Curtis’s After the Software Wars is self published. It is available from Lulu in paper for $13.95 or a downloadable PDF for free. Notice the recent revision date on the cover. The moment you decouple the [...]
April 1st, 2009 by admin | No Comments
Librarian Emily Walshe’s Kindle e-reader: A Trojan horse for free thought in the Christian Science Monitor, argues that the Kindle’s access without ownership is dangerous. Why is this important? Because Kindle is the kind of technology that challenges media freedom and restricts media pluralism. It exacerbates what historian William Leach calls “the landscape of the [...]