Cory Doctorow at 1:00 pm Tue, Feb 25, 2014
One year ago today
Libraries and Makerspaces: a match made in heaven: Every discussion of libraries in the age of austerity always includes at least one blowhard who opines, “What do we need libraries for? We’ve got the Internet now! “
Five years ago today
Authors’ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud: Time and again, the Author’s Guild has shown itself to be the epitome of a venal special interest group, the kind of grasping, foolish posturers that make the public cynically assume that the profession it represents is a racket , not a trade. This is, after all, the same gang of weirdos who opposed the used book trade going online.
Ten years ago today
Universal crackpot spam solution rebuttal: () Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses; () Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected; ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
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