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How piracy is starting to change the world of television

We all know we are not getting a legal copy of the music and movies we download with our torrent clients, yet we all still download them. It’s easy, and it’s free. Piracy seems to have flourished when the...
By Elin on 03/17/13 Comments Off on How piracy is starting to change the world of television

Open knowledge: it’s all about the money (and the quality)

We live in a knowledge economy these days, which means that economic growth for a big part is the result of the knowledge we have. Our economy has shifted its focus from agriculture to industry, and now it is...
By Elin on 03/11/13 Comments Off on Open knowledge: it’s all about the money (and the quality)

Reading e-books: why Kindle is not the new standard (yet)

Our lives are filled with the use of standards, as Alexander Galloway (2006) explained already quite some time ago. The old-fashioned VHS was a standard that has been replaced with a new one, the DVD, and there are a...
By Elin on 03/03/13 Comments Off on Reading e-books: why Kindle is not the new standard (yet)