http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/07/26/moldy-old-global-data/ K.G. Schneider's blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else, since 2003. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:38:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/07/26/moldy-old-global-data/#comment-1612 Genny Engel Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:03:53 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2005/07/26/moldy-old-global-data/#comment-1612 According to Stewart Brand, he never meant "information wants to be free" in a cost or pricing sense, but in an availability sense. The freedom of the reader to gather material is proportional to the freedom of the material to be distributed. Thus a for-pay New York Times is more "free" than a classified document. Speaking of a for-pay New York Times, Paul Ford of Ftrain posits an interesting theory on why that's probably good for web content in general: <a href="http://www.ftrain.com/NYTimesCharges.html" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.ftrain.com/NYTimesCharges.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ftrain.com/NYTimesCharges.html</a></a> According to Stewart Brand, he never meant “information wants to be free” in a cost or pricing sense, but in an availability sense. The freedom of the reader to gather material is proportional to the freedom of the material to be distributed. Thus a for-pay New York Times is more “free” than a classified document. Speaking of a for-pay New York Times, Paul Ford of Ftrain posits an interesting theory on why that’s probably good for web content in general:
http://www.ftrain.com/NYTimesCharges.html

]]> http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/07/26/moldy-old-global-data/#comment-1611 Julie Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:32:45 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2005/07/26/moldy-old-global-data/#comment-1611 Google Earth shows an empty lot, complete with contractor trailers (it appears anyway). Google Earth shows an empty lot, complete with contractor trailers (it appears anyway).

]]> http://freerangelibrarian.com/2005/07/26/moldy-old-global-data/#comment-1610 jessamyn Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:15:57 +0000 http://www.freerangelibrarian.com/2005/07/26/moldy-old-global-data/#comment-1610 I was showing these two tools to patrons in the library yesterday. One of them lived in the East Village previously and so, like many people, wanted to see a satellite image of her house. Imagine our surprise to see the World Trade Center towers still standing on Virtual Earth. I was showing these two tools to patrons in the library yesterday. One of them lived in the East Village previously and so, like many people, wanted to see a satellite image of her house. Imagine our surprise to see the World Trade Center towers still standing on Virtual Earth.

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