Archive for the 'Digital Rights' Category

Guest post: iBooks and iPads for Education. Plus ça change…

We don’t need to equip students with $600 iPads so they can download iBooks. Buy them a $300 laptop so they can consume and produce content with ease.

Two cars, two TVs… two Internets?

SOPA is scary, awful stuff but the sad truth is that very few people seem to care.

My last paper book (I hope).

The grand total of all free ebooks in the known universe that I can recommend and you legally download is three.

Why I’ve switched back to Nokia’s ghetto smartphone OS (for now).

I’m not telling you to switch to S60 — or any specific mobile OS for that matter — just letting you know that Google doesn’t have to own your ass if you don’t want them to.

Fight “lawful access” with Liberté Linux.

It’s a fairly sad state of affairs that I would even consider recommending this for citizens of the country that calls itself the True North, strong and free.