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Some Nerve

(My Violent Wife by Jesse Gardner from Flickr)

Guns, I am told, are dangerous. But women are dangerous, too.

I’ve always enjoyed reading K.G. Schneider’s writing (and presentations) and her essay for Nerve is no different. If you haven’t already given it a read you should. I’ve been an occasional reader of Nerve and they tend to [...]

Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons

New book available that may interest quite a few that deal with copyright or licensing. It also touches on why it is important for some cultural items to be openly accessible.

Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, a new publication from Sydney University Press, brings together papers from some of the most prominent thinkers of [...]

Fear and Loathing in Boston

An interesting read on the recent reaction in Boston:

This remix of Puritanism and the neo-liberal imaginary (obsessed with what Ericson dubs “the myth of certainty and security”) is a necessary but not sufficient set of conditions for declaring this peculiar “state of emergency.” The remaining variable is demographic. It pits an aging, declining and reactive [...]