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- Creator
- Cory Doctorow ; [foreword by Tim O'Reilly.]
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- ©ontext : further selected essays on productivity, creativity, parenting, and politics in the 21st century
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- Language
- English
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- First edition
- San Francisco, CA : Tachyon Publications, [2011]
- ©2011
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- 238 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781616960483, 1616960485
- OCLC
- ocn712124372
- Title on cover reads: ©ontext [with copyright symbol].
- Foreword / by Tim O'Reilly -- Jack and the Interstalk: why the computer is not a scary monster -- Teen sex -- Nature's daredevils: writing for young audiences -- Beyond censorware: teaching web literacy -- Writing in the age of distraction -- Extreme geek -- How to stop your inbox exploding -- What I do -- When I'm dead, how will my loved ones break my password? -- Radical presentism -- A cosmopolitan literature for the cosmopolitan web -- When love is harder to show than hate -- Think like a dandelion -- Digital licensing: do it yourself -- New York, meet Silicon Valley -- With a little help: the price is right -- You shouldn't have to sell your soul just to download some music -- Net neutrality for writers: it's all about the leverage -- Proprietary interest -- 'Intellectual property' is a silly euphemism -- Saying information wants to be free does more harm than good -- Chris Anderson's Free adds much to The Long Tail, but falls short -- Why economics condemns 3D to be no more than a blockbuster gimmick -- Not every cloud has a silver lining -- Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) -- Can you survive a benevolent dictatorship? -- Curated computing is no substitute for the personal and handmade -- Doctorow's First Law -- Reports of blogging's death have been greatly exaggerated -- Streaming will never stop downloading -- Search is too important to leave to one company-- even Google -- Copyright enforcers should learn lessons from the War on Spam -- Warning to all copyright enforcers: three strikes and you're out -- For whom the net tolls -- How do you know if copyright is working? -- News Corp Kremlinology: what do the Times paywall numbers mean? -- Persistence pays parasites -- Teenagers, computers are built to hook up -- Promoting statistical literacy: a modest proposal -- Personal data is as hot as nuclear waste -- Memento mori -- Love the machine, hate the factory -- Untouched by human hands -- Close enough for rock 'n' roll