Monthly Archives: February, 2009
2009: Open Access Year
2009 has been declared Open Access year. Thus reports SURF, the collaborative organization for higher education institutions and research institutes in the Netherlands, aimed at breakthrough innovations in ICT. The … Continue reading
Freedom on trial?
To continue the freedom of knowledge and information debate on a more practical level, as most of you might have heard, bittorrent tracker The Pirate Bay (which I have written … Continue reading
In praise of Eleutheria
‘Beauty is pregnant with potentiality’ – Bracha Ettinger Again, delving deeper into the rabbit hole, let’s try to entangle the concepts in the web of free knowledge definitions. In … Continue reading
Bits of Freedom
As promised before, I would like to dig a little deeper into the meaning and complexities of the concept of free information, referring to the well known aphorism ‘information wants … Continue reading
Open Your Mind
In previous blog posts I mentioned the rise of video surfing and the development of the Internet from a text based medium to one based on remixed mediality, increasingly dominated … Continue reading
Highlights of APE 2009 – Day 2
On the second and final day of APE, Sebastian Mislej of the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, talked about videolectures.net, a website streaming online video lectures that can be viewed … Continue reading
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