Category Archives: Intellectual Property

“Our Rate Even for Original, Reported Stories is $100″

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Timothy Burke

About two years after I’d started blogging, a journalist friend of mine gently needled me about what I was doing. “You’re going to put us all out of business if you keep giving away all that stuff for free,” he … Continue reading →

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The State of the Art III: Facebook (and 500px and Flickr) as a Window Into Social Media

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Timothy Burke

III. The Business Model as Belief and Reality Why is Facebook such a repeatedly bad actor in its relationship to its users, constantly testing and probing for ways to quietly or secretly breach the privacy constraints that most of its … Continue reading →

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Now

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Timothy Burke

I don’t think there’s much more to say about Aaron Swartz. I didn’t know him personally but like many others I am a beneficiary of the work he did. And I have agreed for much of my life as an … Continue reading →

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Apres Le Perturbation

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Timothy Burke

There are three ways to look at what’s happening right now to the economic and social viability of the professions and various kinds of cultural work. One is silly, one is depressing and one is ambiguous. Guess which I prefer? … Continue reading →

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Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Timothy Burke

(Army of Darkness reference for the uninitiated.) I hereby volunteer: the next pundit who talks about how MOOCs are going to save higher education some big bucks needs to meet me for drinks at the establishment of his or her … Continue reading →

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UnConference or MutateConference?

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Timothy Burke

This morning I was drawn to a post by Mitch Joel claiming that the “unconference movement” is dead. I hadn’t encountered Joel’s blog before, so I hope I’m not reading this piece out of the context of his usual commentary. … Continue reading →

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There Is Nothing You Possess That Power Cannot Take Away

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Timothy Burke

…to paraphrase what Belloq says to Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The problem with a rights-based liberalism is precisely that it is not and never can be the end of history, that it is never secure or … Continue reading →

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I Endorse These Messages

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Timothy Burke

Remember when people used to use blogs mostly just for shout-outs to other bloggers? Ok, they’re often still for that purpose, but it seems to me that Twitter serves that function far more efficiently. Also, with my own bloggorhea, I’ve … Continue reading →

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Lead On

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Timothy Burke

Princeton University restrains its faculty from giving away copyright on journal articles to academic publishers.

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Adaptation

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Timothy Burke

I really love the idea of courses which combine trying to apply a body of knowledge to a practical problem with exploring why said practical problem actually poses intellectually challenging questions with no clear answer. I’ve mentioned before at the … Continue reading →

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