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This Is Wrong: 'Without The Content Industries, The Internet Would Be Empty'
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| Oh really? Why not try it, and let's see. The quote, by the way, was brought
| to us by Andrew Dubber, who properly calls Healey the "Wrongest Man on the
| Internet, July 2009." However, this really is how some of these guys think.
| They don't think that the internet really existed before they discovered it,
| and they think that everyone logs onto YouTube just to catch the latest TV
| clips. They don't realize that people use it to communicate and share and
| collaborate -- and that's a lot more useful than using it to get fed some
| mass market entertainment junk.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090720/0233385600.shtml
Why information is its own reward - same neurons signal thirst for water,
knowledge
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| To me, and I suspect many readers, the quest for information can be an
| intensely rewarding experience. Discovering a previously elusive fact or
| soaking up a finely crafted argument can be as pleasurable as eating a fine
| meal when hungry or dousing a thirst with drink. This isn't just a fanciful
| analogy - a new study suggests that the same neurons that process the
| primitive physical rewards of food and water also signal the more abstract
| mental rewards of information.
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http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/why_information_is_its_own_reward_-_same_neurons_signal_thir.php
Recent:
Plans for a documentary about Free Knowledge
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| The other day I met with two filmmakers in Spain. They are planning to make a
| documentary about Free Knowledge in general. They would like to show to the
| general public the aspects and culture within the various communities,
| ranging from Free Software projects to the editors of Wikipedia, from people
| protecting public knowledge and culture to people fighting for keeping the
| internet open. And place these movements in perspective to the intents of
| corporate interests in the privatisation of knowledge and enclosure of our
| culture.
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http://freeknowledge.eu/blog/wouter/plans-for-documentary-on-free-knowledge
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