links for 2007-05-30
- Free Media vs Free Beer ” EngageMedia “Media companies are currently falling over themselves to produce the new hive for user generated content. […] But free beer, as Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman has always emphasised, is not the same as freedom.” (tags: free-culture enclosure sharecropping critique ugc)
- Apple's Lesson for Sony's Stores: Just Connect – New York Times “RETAIL is supposed to be hard. Apple has made it seem ridiculously easy. And yet it must be harder than it appears, or why hasn't the Windows side of the personal computer business figured it out?” (tags: marketing apple design)
- Podnosh Blog : High Fibre Podcasting » Archive » Open source tendering – New Model or New Madness? “an online open source collaborative tender for the £1.2 million Cabinet Office programme to create an Innovation Exchange for the Voluntary Sector.” (tags: free-culture collaborative economics business-model)
- Presidential montage falls foul of Moscow customs | Art & Architecture | Guardian Unlimited Arts “In a sign of Russian paranoia about satirising public figures, customs officials turned away six works of art, two featuring the president.” (tags: censorship russia)
- The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library: Home Page “The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library” (tags: isaiah-berlin liberty freedom philosophy theory)
- philosophy of art “A group weblog on philosophy of art and its various relationships to mind, ethics, and culture.” (tags: philsosophy art aesthetics weblog)
- The Gombrich Archive Official Ernst Gombrich archive website. (tags: gombrich website articles aesthetics art-history)
- On Philosophy A philosophy weblog. (tags: philosophy weblog)
- Switching from Creative Commons to GPL » WPDesigner A brilliant blog post on why CC Licenses just aren’t right for code. (tags: creative-commons licencing gpl blog-entry critique)
- [Gnu-arch-users] the way forward A Free Software white paper on “Bugs in the Distribution Business and Recommendations About How to Fix Them” (tags: free-software critique economics)