Archive for the tag "licenses"
Stranger Than Fiction
My head’s been buzzing since I first read yesterday on the New York Times Bits Blog that coder and activist Aaron Swartz was indicted under federal hacking laws for illegally downloading millions of articles from JSTOR (the full text of the indictment is embedded at the bottom of the post). Since then I’ve read through [...]
Posted: 20 July, 2011 in Information Ethics, Open Access.
Tags: Aaron Swartz, downloading, journal articles, JSTOR, licenses, scholarly journals
Comments: 2
Renting Keys to Walled Gardens
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just issued its third annual forecast of “The Future of the Internet.” It’s well worth a read. Among predictions: –The mobile phone (or its descendant) will be the primary access point to the Internet by 2020. –Social networking won’t increase tolerance. It might even polarize people into [...]
Posted: 14 December, 2008 in Uncategorized.
Tags: databases, Harvard Business Review, licenses
Comments: 11