...chnology Tales Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...es Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...wledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. ... ...eir Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise... ...efore Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a century later – in the 1980s – digi... ... 1998. Freshwater sands were discovered later on the salt sea‘s bottom by National Geographic expeditions led by Robert Ballard, famed for his recov... ...kens transmitted knowledge through both time and space. Then, primarily to register accounts, Sumerian scribes wrote similar symbols on clay tablets ... ... revolutionary InfoTech invention in the fifteenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest of ... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that Ch...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and ...

...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a cen...

...vska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the TrendSiters Web Site: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Inter... ... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ...ELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated ... ...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ...hing practices and to the modern concept of intellectual property. Members register their books, obtain a BCID (BookCrossing ID Number) and then give... ...ok to its origins: a time capsule, a time machine and the embodiment of a historical narrative. E-books, hitherto, have largely been nothing but an... ... the ARPANET. Other government departments joined the fray, headed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) which withdrew only lately from the Inte... ...and, lately, through Selective Dissemination of Information, or SDI). The war is by no means decided. "Progress" may yet consist of the assimilation ... ...ubiaco, Italy) shunned it and regarded it as a major threat to culture and civilization. Their attacks on printing read like the litanies against sel...

...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....

...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... .../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...e public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study o... ...his book. Michael suggested valuable edits—though I did not always lis- ten. Historical work by Carla Hesse, Martha Woodmansee, and Mark Rose Acknowle... ...astrophysics, and Harlan Onsrud in geospatial data. Paul Uhlir’s work at the National Academy of Sciences intro- duced me to many of these issues. The... ...y disagrees with my nomenclature here—and with much else besides. Activists, civil rights lawyers, bloggers, and librarians have actually done much of... ...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...aton, or the literary classics of the 1930s, or the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregatio... ...at are not renewed fall immediately into the public domain. If you check the register after twenty-eight years and the work has not been re- newed, it...

...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James...

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...wledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart... ...eir Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise... ...efore Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a century later – in the 1980s – digi... ... 1998. Freshwater sands were discovered later on the salt sea‘s bottom by National Geographic expeditions led by Robert Ballard, famed for his recov... ...kens transmitted knowledge through both time and space. Then, primarily to register accounts, Sumerian scribes wrote similar symbols on clay tablets ... ... revolutionary InfoTech invention in the fifteenth century. Charlemagne’s war against ignorance Roman Catholic Church monasteries in the darkest o... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and m...

...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every...

...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift ...

...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ........................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON – CIVIL ENGINEER ...................................................... 58 CH... ...OURED ........................................... 92 CHAPTER XIV: A GOSSIP ON A NOVEL OF DUMAS’S ........................................................ ...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... And that same night he was tossing in a brain fever. People are afraid of war and wounds and dentists, all with excellent reason; but these are not t... ...beyond all the impudencies of logic, considering a reference to the parish register worth all the reasons in the world, “I am old and well stricken in... ...; when once youth has flown, each new impression only deepens the sense of nationality and the desire of native places. So may some cadet of Royal Eco... ...strata. Masses of experience, anecdote, incident, cross-lights, quotation, historical instances, the whole flotsam and jetsam of two minds forced in a...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on th...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...t of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet w... ... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...versal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a subject while the story is hot in your mind from recent reading, colou... ...oy and profit by, to the labour and sweat of those who support the litter, civilisation, in which we ourselves are so smoothly carried forward. People... ...st as the plot is an abstract judicial difficulty, the hero is an abstract historical force. And this has been done, not, as it would have been before... ...arose in part from his lax views about religion; for at this time that old war of the creeds and confessors, which is always grumbling from end to end... ...ay, a shameful and useless ceremony; the very greffier, entering it in his register, wrote in the mar- gin, “Pax, pax, inquit propheta, et non ext pax...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...