Re: [-empyre-] OSW: open source writing in the network

2012-01-19 Thread xDxD.vs.xDxD
hi Penny On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Penny travlou sp.trav...@gmail.com wrote: Your response to my post has raised some of the issues I am dealing with as a cultural geographer and ethnographer. It is of great interest to see that while my questions focus on open source writing and

[-empyre-] a comment on reuse

2012-01-19 Thread adam
“Xerography—every man’s brainpicker—heralds the times of instant publishing. Anybody can now become both author and publisher. Take any books on any subject and custom-make your own book by simply xeroxing a chapter from this one, a chapter from that one—instant steal! —Marshall McLuhan, The

Re: [-empyre-] a comment on reuse

2012-01-19 Thread Gary Hall
Hi Adam, But why restrict the mandate and right to change a book to the author? Why can’t anyone improve a book or attempt to improve a book should they feel the need? We need living books and under copyright we have to fight very hard to keep them alive. We recently published a series of

Re: [-empyre-] OSW: open source writing in the network

2012-01-19 Thread emily salinas
please can i be removed from this mailing list. cheers emily Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:30:33 +0100 From: xdxd.vs.x...@gmail.com To: empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: [-empyre-] OSW: open source writing in the network hi Penny On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Penny travlou