Comments on: Last Free Culture lecture, first thought about what to do about political corruption

By: Carole Farah

Carole Farah — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:10:43 +0000

im really stupid so i didn't read the book but i heard its good.
By the way Finklestien, call me for a good time ;)

i love u cameron anger

By: Nattben

Nattben — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:01:09 +0000

wow this book is so bad
and by the way finklestiern, get a f**k'n life man

By: Dannie

Dannie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:29:16 +0000

How inspiring Randy Pausch is! If you liked "The Last Lecture", another fantastic memoir I just read and highly recommend is "My Stroke of Insight" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Her TEDTalk video (ted.com) has been seen as many times as The Last Lecture I think, and Oprah did 4 shows on her book, so there are a lot of similarities. In My Stroke of Insight, there's a happy ending though. It's an incredible story! I hear they're making it into a movie.

By: pb

pb — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:53:47 +0000

"Thanks to Creative Commons, the author may well be more easily able to abstain from exploiting their unethical privilege of copyright and cease consigning it to less scrupulous publishers"

Translation: The author can abstain from receiving royalties and cease to get paid. Then, maybe find another job.

There's a sucker born every minute.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:38:13 +0000

Coverage:

Stanford's Lessig tackling even bigger battle

By: susy struble

susy struble — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:17:30 +0000

Could you add abolishing the practice of riders to your list of targets?

By: late

late — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:30:07 +0000

if the wheel doesn't work, it bears reinventing.

By: poptones

poptones — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:32:38 +0000

Man Seth, what is it with this hippie idealism? Tell me this: how many people benefit from wikipedia? I mean, how many poor kids, rich kids, old kids, get a reference library in their home essentially for nothing? Not everyone contributes articles to wikipedia, but everyone who visits gets the same end access to the reference materials. Why is it "evil" to seek ways to make money on that infrastructure if you are the guy who started it, marketed it, essentially built it?

The evil is not in the making or the mining, only perhaps in the details of how these things are done. Claiming you "fear" something is not a valid impeachment. I "fear" jumping out of moving cars and seeing close up views of waterfalls on movie screens; one is a valid fear backed up by objective cause-and-effect relationships - the other is simply my own phobia playing on my psyche. We all need to strive to tell the difference even when it's very hard.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:29:20 +0000

Corruption in politics is common. I dont think it will be stop in future.
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By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:07:27 +0000

Worse than re-inventing the wheel, I fear the inventions of the wheeler-dealers (i.e. the cadre of hucksters who hype data-mining businesses, especially those using large amount of unpaid work, as the model for a new society).