Comments on: Foreword

By: shesnameless

shesnameless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:52:50 +0000

According to Billboard.biz, some of the world's largest recording companies are suing "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," claiming producers violated their copyrights by playing more than 1,000 songs without permission. Many of the songs were played during the "dance over" segment of the show, when DeGeneres dances from the stage to the interview area. Many people feel this is absurd as well, most notably because exposure from the show probably helped sell more albums.

By: shesnameless

shesnameless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:41:30 +0000

Children do in fact learn by copying parents and the people around them. Psychologists call this process of watching others and imitating them modeling.

By: shesnameless

shesnameless — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:28:49 +0000

This New York Times book review mentions how allowing the text of “Little Brother” to be distributed freely hasn’t hurt print sales a bit. Author and financial guru Suze Orman experienced the same thing when Oprah offered an e-book edition of Orman’s “Women and Money” as a free download for a period of 33 hours. More than 1 million copies were downloaded in English and 19,000 were downloaded in Spanish. Within days, the hard copy version of the book– which had been out for nearly a year—leaped onto the bestseller lists.

By: shesnameless

shesnameless — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:01:34 +0000

Professionals from a variety of fields know the value of collecting and sharing personal experience stories. University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill Social Psychologist Melanie Green studies the power of narrative to change beliefs, and has discovered that even fictional stories have significant effects on real-world attitudes. For people who want to work with stories on a small scale in their communities and organizations, the website Working With Stories by Cynthia Kurtz is a good place to start.

By: shesnameless

shesnameless — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:44:03 +0000

If your government, employer or school doesn't want you to access certain parts of the internet, there are plenty of places like this eHow article to find information about bypassing filters.

By: shesnameless

shesnameless — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:24:51 +0000

The question of whether or not it's possible to give away information and still make money is also discussed in the popular book "World Wide Rave." Author David Meerman Scott agrees that it can be done.

By: tiptoe

tiptoe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:50:34 +0000

Craphound.com is an actual Website that includes just about everything Cory Doctorow produces, including podcasts. If you’d like to listen to the author reading some of his work, check this out: http://craphound.com/index.php?cat=6

By: tiptoe

tiptoe — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:47:22 +0000

Cory Doctorow is apparently not directly related to the writer E.L. Doctorow, though both are of Ashkenazi Jewish descent from the same general area of Europe, according to this Aug. 7, 2008, interview posted on The Chicago Tribune Web site: http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/technology_internetcritic/2008/08/a-long-but-stil.html. The interview also includes interesting comments about Doctorow’s intent in writing “Little Brother.”

By: Alex H.

Alex H. — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:48:47 +0000

Doctorow's bio on Boing Boing, a blog/zine he contributes to, reads "Science fiction writer, blogger, activist, short-attention-span-having guy with -- oh, shiny!" A Wikipedia entry goes a bit deeper.

By: Alex H.

Alex H. — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:38:39 +0000

Creative Commons represents an effort to increase sharing and collaboration by allowing authors of creative works of all kinds to license their works while reserving some of their rights.