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Cory Doctorow / 12:28 pm Tue, Oct 22, 2019

Social justice is a library issue; libraries are a social justice issue

Radical librarian (and warrant canary inventor) Jessamyn West (previously gave this year's Alice G Smith lecture at the University of South Florida's School of Information. It's called "Social Justice is a Library Issue; Libraries are a Social Justice Issue." Read the rest

Rufus Pollock / 3:15 am Wed, Jun 13, 2018

The Open Revolution: the vital struggle of open vs closed, free vs unfree

Rufus Pollock’s new book The Open Revolution: rewriting the rules of the information age, reimagines ownership in a digital age and its implications from the power of tech monopolies to control how we think and vote , to unaffordable medicines, to growing inequality. Get the book and find out more at openrevolution.net. - Cory
Cory Doctorow / 12:31 pm Fri, Dec 15, 2017

A deep dive into the race to preserve our digital heritage

Science Friday's beautiful "File Not Found" series looks at the thorny questions of digital preservation: finding surviving copies of data, preserving the media it is recorded upon, finding working equipment to read that media, finding working software to decode the information once it's read, clearing the rights to archive it, and maintaining safe, long term archives -- all while being mindful of privacy and other equities. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 7:18 am Wed, Apr 4, 2012

Why is Claude Shannon's Master's thesis behind a paywall

Hanan sez, "'A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits' by Claude Shannon can be viewed but cannot be printed. It's behind an MIT paywall. This thesis from 1937 predicted moderns digital circuitry. Why can't we print and read it at our convenience?"

Update: Lew Pitcher found a different copy, also on MIT's servers, that is an unencumbered PDF. Read the rest