It can be used for shelving books and iPads as well as hanging magazines. Visually, the optical illusion serves as a reminder that, whenever one picks up a medium, ideas can be misinterpreted when passed from one end to the other.”
bron: Mocoloco
Eén op één overgenomen van Agnostic, Maybe, The eBook User’s Bill of Rights. Ik onderschrijf het voor de volle honderd procent.
The eBook User’s Bill of Rights is a statement of the basic freedoms that should be granted to all eBook users.
The eBook User’s Bill of Rights
Every eBook user should have the following rights:
I believe in the free market of information and ideas.
I believe that authors, writers, and publishers can flourish when their works are readily available on the widest range of media. I believe that authors, writers, and publishers can thrive when readers are given the maximum amount of freedom to access, annotate, and share with other readers, helping this content find new audiences and markets. I believe that eBook purchasers should enjoy the rights of the first-sale doctrine because eBooks are part of the greater cultural cornerstone of literacy, education, and information access.
Digital Rights Management (DRM), like a tariff, acts as a mechanism to inhibit this free exchange of ideas, literature, and information. Likewise, the current licensing arrangements mean that readers never possess ultimate control over their own personal reading material. These are not acceptable conditions for eBooks.
I am a reader. As a customer, I am entitled to be treated with respect and not as a potential criminal. As a consumer, I am entitled to make my own decisions about the eBooks that I buy or borrow.
I am concerned about the future of access to literature and information in eBooks. I ask readers, authors, publishers, retailers, librarians, software developers, and device manufacturers to support these eBook users’ rights.
These rights are yours. Now it is your turn to take a stand. To help spread the word, copy this entire post, add your own comments, remix it, and distribute it to others. Blog it, Tweet it (#ebookrights), Facebook it, email it, and post it on a telephone pole.
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Wederom een mooi filmpje via Open Culture: The Facebook Obsession.
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Eén van de meest opmerkelijke stukken op het geweldige Raymond Scott-album Manhattan Research, Inc (Spotifylink) is Limbo: The Organized Mind. In dit meesterstukje neemt Jim Henson de luisteraar mee op een tocht door het brein van Nobody. De geluiden die hiermee gepaard gaan waren voor rekening van componist en uitvinder Raymond Scott. Hieronder de animatie die Henson maakte.
“Limbo: The Organized Mind” was a stock (but very surreal) bit Henson used to perform on variety shows in `60s and `70s. This clip is from an appearance on the Tonight Show in 1974 and features a disembodied floating face (called “Nobody”) taking a surrealist trip through his own mind.”
Eerder deze week twitterde ik over een stukje jeugdsentiment. Dit naar aanleiding van het luisteren naar een vroeg album van Fates Warning. Toevalligerwijs blijkt een nummer van deze heren, The Ivory Gate of Dreams, part 3, momenteel de stemming in Bahrein het best te verklanken. Dat is althans wat de muziekhack Lastmood.fm ons doet geloven en wel op basis van de toonsoort waarin het nummer is geschreven: D-groot. Volgens Characteristiscs of Musical Keys staat deze voor:
The key of triumph, of Hallejuahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing. Thus, the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key.
Cory Doctorow schrijft:
Here’s a nostalgic look at what a pain in the ass it was to produce a book in the era before digital typesetting.”
