TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » MIT http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 May 2013 15:15:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 The Suicide of Computer Genius Aaron Swartz: Time for presidential peacemaking in the online copyright wars http://www.teleread.com/copyright-reform/the-suicide-of-computer-genius-aaron-swartz-time-for-presidential-peacemaking-in-the-online-copyright-wars/ http://www.teleread.com/copyright-reform/the-suicide-of-computer-genius-aaron-swartz-time-for-presidential-peacemaking-in-the-online-copyright-wars/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:03:07 +0000 David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/?p=76701 After Henry Louis Gates, Jr., an African-American Harvard professor, was erroneously arrested for breaking and entering, Barack Obama spoke up. The President at first overdid his criticism of the police, but in the end played the meritable role of peacemaker, inviting both Prof. Gates and the arresting policeman to the White House for a “Beer Summit.” In time, Sgt. [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/copyright-reform/the-suicide-of-computer-genius-aaron-swartz-time-for-presidential-peacemaking-in-the-online-copyright-wars/feed/ 22 Aaron Swartz suicide represents gross miscarriage of justice http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/aaron-swartz-suicide-represents-gross-miscarriage-of-justice/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/aaron-swartz-suicide-represents-gross-miscarriage-of-justice/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:33:49 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/?p=76681 On Friday, Aaron Swartz was found dead in his apartment; he’d apparently hanged himself. Swartz was only 26, a brilliant and troubled young man who suffered from clinical depression, and also an Internet activist who spoke out and acted out in favor of making access to public information more free to everyone. He was a [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/aaron-swartz-suicide-represents-gross-miscarriage-of-justice/feed/ 2 Participation and collaboration: The future of storytelling? http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/participation-and-collaboration-the-future-of-storytelling/ http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/participation-and-collaboration-the-future-of-storytelling/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/2010/06/21/participation-and-collaboration-the-future-of-storytelling/ Over at Nieman Reports, assistant editor Jan Gardner has an interview with V. Michael Bove, Jr., a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. Bove discusses interaction, user participation, and collaboration as components of the future of storytelling. The first part of the interview involves an idea for adding more interactivity to televised events by [...]

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