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Musing about open access publishing and economics-of-abundance and DRM

September 23rd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Four pillars

In a week when the New York Times announced that it was making its digital archives available to all free of charge, I found myself spending time thinking about open access publishing in general, spurred on by this article in the New Scientist.
Initially I could not get over the irony of finding that an article [...]

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Continuing to muse about advertising

September 23rd, 2007 · 7 Comments · Four pillars

My post yesterday elicited a few comments, and they took my thoughts down a different track. Today we have a lot of pushback against advertising. So why would someone predisposed to avoid ads watch something despite knowing it was an ad? Take a look at this video, with a whole pile of red flags around [...]

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