Context
By: Cory Doctorow ; [foreword by Tim O'Reilly.].
Contributors: O'Reilly, Tim
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781616960483
Subjects: Social norms; Digital media; Intellectual property; Copyright and electronic data processing; Social aspects; Creative ability in technology; Internet; Information society; Digital communications; Technology; Information technology
Other titles: ℗♭Ontext : further selected essays on productivity, creativity, parenting, and politics in the 21st century; Context : further selected essays on productivity, creativity, parenting, and politics in the 21st century
Description: "Further selected essays on productivity, creativity, parenting, and politics in the 21st century"--Cover.
Notes: Title on cover reads: ℗♭ontext [with copyright symbol].
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- by Tim O'Reilly; title: Jack and the Interstalk : why the computer is not a scary monster --; title: Teen sex --; title: Nature's daredevils : writing for young audiences --; title: Beyond censorware : teaching web literacy --; title: Writing in the age of distraction --; title: Extreme geek --; title: How to stop your inbox exploding --; title: What I do --; title: When I'm dead, how will my loved ones break my password? --; title: Radical presentism --; title: A cosmopolitan literature for the cosmopolitan web --; title: When love is harder to show than hate --; title: Think like a dandelion --; title: Digital licensing : do it yourself --; title: New York, meet Silicon Valley --; title: With a little help : the price is right --; title: You shouldn't have to sell your soul just to download some music --; title: Net neutrality for writers : it's all about the leverage --; title: Proprietary interest --; title: 'Intellectual property' is a silly euphemism --; title: Saying information wants to be free does more harm than good --; title: Chris Anderson's Free adds much to The long tail, but falls short --; title: Why economics condemns 3D to be no more than a blockbuster gimmick --; title: Not every cloud has a silver lining --; title: Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either) --; title: Can you survive a benevolent dictatorship? --; title: Curated computing is no substitute for the personal and handmade --; title: Doctorow's first law --; title: Reports of blogging's death have been greatly exaggerated --; title: Streaming will never stop downloading --; title: Search is too important to leave to one company, even Google --; title: Copyright enforcers should learn lessons from the war on spam --; title: Warning to all copyright enforcers : three strikes and you're out --; title: For whom the Net tolls --; title: How do you know if copyright is working? --; title: News Corp Kremlinology : what do the Times paywall numbers mean? --; title: Persistence pays parasites --; title: Like teenagers, computers are built to hook up --; title: Promoting statistical literacy : a modest proposal --; title: Personal data is as hot as nuclear waste --; title: Memento mori --; title: Love the machine, hate the factory --; title: Untouched by human hands --; title: Close enough for rock 'n' roll.