Tag: Aaron Schwartz

  • When will we fight back?

    When will we fight back?

    A friend noticed the change in Cory Doctorow’s tone recently, he explains it as the anniversary of Aaron Schwartz’s death but a lot of us are despairing. Like Tim Berners-Lee warned middle of last year, there is an attempt to not only close up the Internet and make it some walled garden, a virtual shopping…

  • The new Turing?

    The new Turing?

    Have to say Jack Andraka is such an inspiration – I’d heard that he’d invented a test for cancer at age 15, but didn’t know he was out and gay and is a fan of Turing. And now is targeting the eJournals and academic institutions to improve or provide open access…I hope he suceeds where…

  • Occupy posters

    Occupy posters

    One of the things that attracted my attention to Occupy Wall Street several years ago was the photos and graphics, and glad people are still keeping that spirit going with Occupy* Posters. It was a diverse spread of opinions – not even a conveniently unified message in a conventional political sense, that’s what made it…

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