Archive for December, 2009

Fahrenheit 451… Book burning as done by lawyers

Farneheit_451In Ray Bradbury’s 1953 classic, Fahrenheit 451, a “fireman” is a man who burns books “for the good of humanity.”   Written at the height of the Cold War, the book paints a shockingly dystopian picture of a culture at war with its own printed record, one deeply infused by Bradbury’s love of books. › Continue reading

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Uncategorized 45 Comments

Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks is the best book about the economics of an information society and the ways that peer production can transform some of our basic economic assumptions. › Continue reading

Monday, December 28th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

From the Blog

  • The Hargreaves Review Published Today

    The Hargreaves Review of British intellectual property policy is to be published this morning.. and as you will see, the leaks were as misleading as they were revealing…..  My Financial Times column follows… 

  • Keith Aoki — A Remembrance Book

    A slideshow and downloadable book remembering Keith in words and pictures.  You can order a glossy, high quality copy of the book itself here from Createspace or here from Amazon.  We tried to make it as beautiful as something Keith would create.  We failed. But we came close; have a look at how striking it is… all because of Keith’s art.

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