Share what youre reading. Not what you like. Not what you find interesting. Just what youre reading.

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For too long I’ve felt the pull of the earth drawing me back. The land is calling to me. It smells of plain-text, ftp and baked HTML. It is self-hosted and self-publishing. The tools I use to publish are simple: Emacs, Perl, Markdown – just enough Lisp and Perl to get by. Where I’m going there are no badges, widgets or ‘like’ buttons. No promoted tweets or banner ads. Only words and pictures and links. Back to basics.

via Back to Basics.

In traditional print rights, the so-called “first sale doctrine” (also known as the exhaustion doctrine) means that once a lawfully made copy of a work has been distributed by the rights owner, the owner of that copy is able to sell, lend or otherwise give away this copy without further permission from the original rights owner. This means that no brick-and-mortar bookstore or public library ever needed any license agreements with any publishers to sell or lend books.

via The digital rights quagmire – O'Reilly Radar.

Prestigious US academic institution Princeton University will prevent researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers, except in certain cases where a waiver may be granted.

The new rule is part of an Open Access policy aimed at broadening the reach of their scholarly work and encouraging publishers to adjust standard contracts that commonly require exclusive copyright as a condition of publication.

via Princeton goes open access to stop staff handing all copyright to journals – unless waiver granted.

via BBC News – Smart cities get their own operating system.

All of this stuff is useless if we don’t share our stories with each other and explore what’s out there.

via The Setup / Geof Morris.

I am an interactive Vim tutorial. via http://www.openvim.com/tutorial.html

I guess the real challenge here is how to collect and curate digital art with the imprimatur of a Legitimate Musuem. Video art and conceptual art have similar display challenges, it’s hard to make them compelling in a gallery. I think it’s a mistake to relocate online art to a museum; what works is art designed for the museum space. For the rest we need some other institution to help us curate and critique what’s going on in the Internet.

via Nelson's Weblog: culture / moma-talk-to-me-and-ibm-think.

via Submarine Cable Map.