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Free books and media – day 6

July 23, 2011July 23, 2011 ~ Graeme

An uneventful day. No video and just one book finished. Continue reading →

Free media only – days 4 and 5

July 22, 2011July 22, 2011 ~ Graeme

Not much happened, just more good books, a burst of SF and fantasy, and a surprisingly good comedy film. Continue reading →

Free media experiment – day 3

July 20, 2011July 22, 2011 ~ Graeme

More great reading and some interesting discoveries on video (although I did not actually watch anything on any length) yesterday. Continue reading →

Free media experiment – day 2

July 19, 2011 ~ Graeme

The second day of my experiment in reading, watching and listening only to free stuff went fairly well. I discovered one author I had not appreciated, and watched another OK video. Continue reading →

Free ebooks and video, first day

July 18, 2011July 18, 2011 ~ Graeme ~ 2 Comments

Yesterday was my first full day of consuming only free media, Its a day and a half since I started. So how is it going? Continue reading →

A month of only free content

July 16, 2011July 17, 2011 ~ Graeme ~ 3 Comments

For the next month (i.e. from 16th July 2011 to 15th August 2011) I will only read/watch/listen to legally free media (audio, video, books, whatever). The biggest changes will be reading only free ebooks (something I have been doing a lot of lately, anyway) and listening only to free music. Continue reading →

Are newspapers content farms?

February 9, 2011 ~ Graeme ~ 4 Comments

I disagreed with a recent blog post by Alan Patrick which described the Huffington Post as a content farm. I do not think that the alleged lack of original content at the Huffpo is any worse than at many newspapers: so I concluded that it is not a content farm. It could be interpreted the other way: newspapers are content farms too. Continue reading →

The Huffington Post and AOL

February 8, 2011 ~ Graeme ~ 1 Comment

The Huffington Post may not be a bad buy at the price AOL is paying, but that does not mean that AOL is right to buy it. Continue reading →

The internet as an instrument of control

December 7, 2010December 8, 2010 ~ Graeme ~ 2 Comments

Conventional wisdom has long been that the internet (and IT and modern telecommunications) are hard for governments to control and empower anyone willing to use them — activists and protesters in particular. I have long been sceptical, but I think its now clear I was right. Continue reading →

SETI@Home sacking and the death of local newspapers

December 3, 2009 ~ Graeme ~ 1 Comment

Two newspapers and a local radio station cover the same story, and it looks like two different stories. At the very least, one account is so incomplete as to be misleading. Continue reading →

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