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The Surprising Games People Made with Public Domain Works (Boing Boing) The recent Public Domain Jam has spawned a whole bunch of new works…about Captain Ahab, Captain Hook, Cinderella, Dorian Gray and lots more than any fan of classics might like to peruse. The TeleRead Take: I love this story. Boing Boing points out that […]

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Librarians: Privacy’s Champions (Boing Boing) Librarians like Alison Macrina (whose work I wrote about here are part of the vanguard of privacy activism in libraries, hosting cryptoparties and giving workshops to librarians and patrons on advanced information ninja-ry. *** Amazon’s International Growth Challenge (Re/Code) When Amazon reported its financial results recently, foreign exchange fluctuations played […]

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Proto-Mommyblogger Dooce Quits the Blog (Boing Boing) After more than a decade of chronicling every detail of her life and those of her children, Heather B. Armstrong is stepping away from the blog as a fulltime job. *** Why Are Authors Citing Older Papers? (The Scholarly Kitchen) With so much new literature published each year, […]

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Internet.org: Delivering Poor Internet to Poor People (Boing Boing) Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.org project bribes corrupt, non-neutral carriers in poor countries to exempt Facebook and other services of its choosing from their data-caps, giving the world’s poorest an Internet that’s been radically pruned to a sliver of what the rest of the world gets for free. […]

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Silicon Valley Needs To Be More Willing To Talk Openly About Failures (Techdirt) This is Silicon Valley’s stupid secret that really should be discussed more openly. Lots of startups fail. It happens all the time. *** LA School District Wants Refunds for Education iPads (Boing Boing) They paid nearly $1000 each for 44,000 iPads loaded […]

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I Love Kindle Unlimited (Boing Boing) When Kindle Unlimited was announced, I was super-excited. I wanted to give it a few months, however, so I could share a real user’s review. The service is wonderful. – Amazon’s Net Sales up 20% in 2014 (GalleyCat) Amazon’s fourth quarter 2014 net sales reached $29.33 billion, a 15 […]

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