http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/21/treasures-of-geocitiesbig-brother-in-my-kindle/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Wed, 23 May 2012 10:37:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/21/treasures-of-geocitiesbig-brother-in-my-kindle/#comment-76 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:02:51 +0000 http://thatcampcolumbus.org/?p=392#comment-76 No problem. This piece just came through my reader, so I thought I’d post it here, as it’s directly relevant to the idea of ownership over digital items: techdirt.com/articles/20100110/2302157699.shtml

]]> http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/21/treasures-of-geocitiesbig-brother-in-my-kindle/#comment-75 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:14:27 +0000 http://thatcampcolumbus.org/?p=392#comment-75 I like the way you’ve framed this issue. Taking “traditional” to mean “physical object”, one could analyze the differences between physical and digital objects, what rights are and should be preserved, etc. Thanks for the feedback.

]]> http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/21/treasures-of-geocitiesbig-brother-in-my-kindle/#comment-74 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:40:17 +0000 http://thatcampcolumbus.org/?p=392#comment-74 All of these ideas sound cool to me. I’m particularly interested in your topic number 2, as I’m fascinated by the way that digital artifacts push the concept of ‘ownership’ to its logical limits. I wonder if we’re due for some major conceptual overhauls of what it means to own something. I’m also extremely disturbed by the ways in which corporate interests have lobbied for draconian revising and enforcement of antiquated copyright laws. It’d be interesting to do a sort of analysis of the facets of traditional ownership (as applied to, say, the computer in my lap right now), and the extent to which each of those facets can/should be transferred to digital “objects”.

]]> http://columbus2010.thatcamp.org/12/21/treasures-of-geocitiesbig-brother-in-my-kindle/#comment-73 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:08:54 +0000 http://thatcampcolumbus.org/?p=392#comment-73 Another idea I didn’t add above: I’ve taken a recent interest in the Librivox project, which has the ambitious goal of recording audiobooks versions of all books currently in the public domain. This is an excellent example of the open source movement bringing literary treasures to the masses in a new way. At their site, you can download a Charles Dickens classic to your Ipod and listen away. I’d love to talk about this all-volunteer movement and how it’s changing the digital literary landscape.

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