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Literary Beggars

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Wed, 17 May 2006 21:52:35 +0000

I like most web surfers am trained to ignore online ads, but one blogad today caught my eye, because it purported to be about a literary beggar named Jack who was liable to blow his brains soon out if he didn’t receive enough donations to support his writing.

This is Jack.

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Getting Real

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:05:08 +0000

37 Signals is selling an ebook, Getting Real, from their Signals vs. Noise blog. 37 Signals used the very same process that they wrote about in Getting Real, to launch Ruby on Rails and other web applications. Mark Bernstein sees the success of the publication of Getting Real as a watershed moment for self-publishing on the web. He notes that 37 Signals sold 1750 copies of Getting Real on the first day.

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The Groves of Academe Are Well Suited to Be Creative Commons

Jennifer Franklin Elrod — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:14:01 +0000

John Holbo on The Valve, in Electra Press - Will Work For Whuffie, part II, urges academics to “get over the paper fetish in the right way“. That way is to become a gift culture on the web.

The groves of academe are well suited to be exemplary Creative Commons. But there is no guarantee they will be. So we should work for that. Of course, there is no danger google is going to render universities obsolete if this opportunity is missed. But universities - which are called that for a reason - were the original world wide webs. They should consider in what ways they can retain that distinction.

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