Turning One’s Back on Facebook
Apparently lots of lawyers and doctors are now wishing they were the geniuses behind sites like Facebook. Perhaps they should… Read More »Turning One’s Back on Facebook
Frank Pasquale
Source of the Tech Cornucopia
Lots of people are carping about capitalism nowadays. For example, Oliver James at the Guardian complains of a “Blatcherism” that… Read More »Source of the Tech Cornucopia
Dean Baker on IP
Dean Baker is one of the most interesting public intellectuals working in DC. His blog Beat the Press does a great job correcting misconceptions about economics generated by the MSM. He has a number of interesting insights on the relative competence of government and business. I just noticed that the PAER has published his piece “The Reform of Intellectual Property.” A few excerpts are below the fold. . . .
Humanities Hobbled by Copyright Law
While scientists are pioneering exciting new modes of cooperation, humanities scholars are increasingly tripped up by an archaic copyright system. Great schools of the recent past may be doomed to an ownership pattern fractionated enough to frustrate even the most persistent assembler. Mark Bauerlein describes one editor’s struggle to put together an anthology of the “new critics:”
New Criticism will carry on only if it survives in the classroom, which is to say only if instructors have a handy anthology to assign. They’ll get it in early 2008, when Ohio University Press, in partnership with Swallow Press, issues Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism. . . .
It almost didn’t happen. And the reason why raises broad questions about how humanities fields progress. . . .
Egalitarian Synthetic Biology
The Chron reports on the “International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition, known as iGEM[, which features teams of college students trying… Read More »Egalitarian Synthetic Biology