New Old Math

Complex mathematics at it's finest.  Thanks GAS

Academic research copyright

An interesting article about publicly funded research in the US and 2 publishers working hard to ensure that it stays behind their paywalls for perpetuity popped up on Techcrunch and in the course of reviewing my drafts today I also remembered getting an action notice from Demandprogress.org about a petition to End Corporate Citizenhood.  If you live in the US and are tired of corporations having the right to spend nearly unlimited amounts of money to convince Congress to do what ever it is they want, that petition would be one concrete thing to help start the conversation to end this bs.

Everything is a remix

So here is a video to relax with for the weekend.  It's about copyright and creativity, a little long but does an excellent job looking at copyright it's origins and the creative process and how it is affected by the availability of information in culture.


Part 1

Everything is a Remix Part 1 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Part 2

Everything is a Remix Part 2 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Part 3

Everything is a Remix Part 3 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Part 4

Everything is a Remix Part 4 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.