Friday Video: GLAM and the Free World
December 12, 2014
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“GLAM and the Free World,” Cory Doctorow’s keynote speech at Museums and the Web Florence 2014
"You Two! We're at the end of the universe, eh. Right at the edge of knowledge itself. And you're busy… blogging!" — The Doctor, Utopia
“GLAM and the Free World,” Cory Doctorow’s keynote speech at Museums and the Web Florence 2014
At the start of the summer, I traveled to Chicago for the annual national conference of the American Library Association. It was great. There are many utterly baseless clichés about librarians – the shushing spinster who prefers the company of books to humans is a creation of pure and unimaginative fantasy. But there is one […]
Computers permeate almost every aspect of our lives. To fully understand the world we live in, we must understand computers and the language of 1s and 0s they speak. The characters in Cory Doctorow’s novel, “Homeland”, are a group of technically able, politically-engaged teenagers who are native speakers of this language. They have the tech-savvy […]
A keynote presentation by Cory Doctorow at Mini Maker Faire Meetup on Sunday, 7th July 2013.
This week’s podcast heads into strange territory, guided by the Books site’s editor-for-a-day, Neil Gaiman. First,