Showing posts with label Brewster Kahle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brewster Kahle. Show all posts
19 September 2013

How Much Would It Cost To Store All US Phone Calls Made In A Year?

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An early criticism of Snowden's leak about NSA spying activity was that the $20 million annual cost for PRISM -- whatever that turn...
07 March 2012

Why Digital Texts Need A New Library Of Alexandria -- With Physical Books

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Amidst the growing enthusiasm for digital texts -- ebooks and scans of illustrated books -- it's easy to overlook some important drawb...
22 October 2007

Open Content Alliance - Good, but not New....

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Nice story in the New York Times about libraries choosing to go with the Open Content Alliance rather than that nice Mr. Google or Mr. Mic...
05 September 2007

Chalk One Up for Larry & Co.

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Nice little victory here for Larry Lessig and friends in their fight to defend the shrinking public domain in the US: The 10th Circuit deci...
17 July 2007

The Open Library Opens Its Doors

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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simpl...
07 March 2007

Remembrance of Sims Past

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There's a fascinating post over on 3pointD.com, which exhumes some screenshots of sims as they were three years ago, and contrasts them...
23 January 2007

Have Pity on the Orphans

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Oh dear, Larry's still having no luck rolling back US copyright law: In a move that's a blow to the U.S. movement to reform copyrig...
18 August 2006

Half the Web 2.0 Story

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Here's a clever idea: put together a list of the top 1000 or so Web 2.0 sites, ordered by traffic rank. What's included? For our p...