December 2011
7 posts
“Tragic mutual incomprehension”
– “In 1992, Pope John Paul II called the Church’s position regarding Galileo a ‘tragic mutual incomprehension’.”
via wikipedia Eppur si muove
“E pur si muove, as Galileo is reputed to have said in the face of Cardinal...”
– re-reading James Boyle’s The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain (direct link to PDF).
…E pur si muove - - thinking about this as I’m working through people’s gut feeling that we can’t make money giving away public domain resources - -...
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion...”
– Abraham Lincoln.
(via @SI_CTO Carmen Iannacone)
“All of this seems to offer the grandmotherly option between Starkman and the FON...”
– Clay Shirky, Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis December 2, 2011
“No medium has ever survived the indifference of 25 year olds.
…...”
– Clay Shirky, Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis December 2, 2011
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“Twentieth-century beliefs about who could produce and consume public messages,...”
– Shirky: Long-term accidents
Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus, Chapter 4 (last page)
http://books.google.com/books?id=PjeTO822t_4C&lpg=PP1&dq=cognitive%20surplus&pg=PT82#v=onepage&q=governments%20using%20&f=false
