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Ingrid van der Mooren

Protect our Noble Pirates! On Pirating for the Greater Good.

Protect our Noble Pirates! On Pirating for the Greater Good.

What comes to mind when you think about piracy? Being but a simple new media-layman myself, my mind wanders off to the joy the free ‘file-sharing’ program Limewire († 2010) brought me in my teenage years and, more recently,...
By Ingrid van der Mooren on 03/16/13 Comments Off on Protect our Noble Pirates! On Pirating for the Greater Good.
Written to be Read: How Elsevier was Stopped from Impoverishing Academia

Written to be Read: How Elsevier was Stopped from Impoverishing Academia

Imagine: you’re looking for some background literature on your thesis subject in an online academic database. Browsing a multidisciplinary scholarly archive, that allows you to search through several academic archives and journals all at once (like JSTOR or EBSCO...
By Ingrid van der Mooren on 03/10/13 Comments Off on Written to be Read: How Elsevier was Stopped from Impoverishing Academia
Now for Some Light Reading: A Bibliofile’s Review of the Sony PRS T2 e-reader

Now for Some Light Reading: A Bibliofile’s Review of the Sony PRS T2 e-reader

For a long time, I felt an aversion towards e-readers and electronic reading. How could reading from a screen ever top reading from paper? How could one simple, small device triumph over bookshelves crammed with beautiful books? Of course,...
By Ingrid van der Mooren on 03/03/13 Comments Off on Now for Some Light Reading: A Bibliofile’s Review of the Sony PRS T2 e-reader