'Rants & Raves'
How on earth could one possibly give content away for free and still earn money?
Frances Pinter is a publisher who worked in Africa making educational material available under alternative licenses. Together with David Percy, a professional film maker, he produced a documentary on the use of Creative Commons licenses to actually earn money.
The movie is available here to view online — for free of course and under a CC license:
How on earth could one possibly give content away for free and still earn money?
Frances Pinter is a publisher who worked in Africa making educational material available under alternative licenses. Together with David Percy, a professional film maker, he produced a documentary on the use of Creative Commons licenses to actually earn money.
The movie is available here to view online — for free of course and under a CC license:
Der freundliche Kundendienst von NS (nein, nicht DAP…) sagt mir heute (auf Nachfrage wegen Geografie), sie wüssten es halt auch nicht, ich soll mich doch an NS Highspeed wenden, die seien fürs Ausland zuständig …
Emmerich ist ein mittlerweile unbedeutender Grenzort an der Bahnlinie von Rotterdam nach Köln. Versuchen wir also mal, dahin zu fahren, zum Beispiel mit der NS (nein, nicht DAP: Nederlandse Spoorwegen, die holländische Bahn). http://www.ns.nl/ ist die Adresse, Abfahrtsort ist Rotterdam Centraal, Ankunftsort Emmerich, gewünschte Abfahrtszeit: 7:45 h.
Und das ist die Reise, die NS anbietet:
… when you see one — omdat hij een externe beeldscherm gebruikt voor zijn mobiele telefoon, bijvoorbeeld
en de foto vervolgens nog op de blog plaatst
Hidden away in the official Live Search blog Microsoft announced last week that they are going to shut down Live Book Search as of today. The reasons are simple: there is no money to be made for Microsoft by digitizing content. It is now up to the partners in the project — publishers and libraries — to continue the work.
The post attracts of course the usual Microsoft bashing comments. More importantly, many of the mostly academic users of Microsoft’s service are disappointed and will have to look elsewhere to get acces to the millions of journal articles that MS scanned and hosted.
This is the end to a project that was hailed by some as the good digitizing project, just because MS did choose an opt-in model rather than the opt-out model its competitor Google is using. From MS’s post its not clear what role this part of the project played in closing it down. However, MS is convinced that it should be the publishers and libraries who should make content available. Adding (and paying) an extra intermediary obviously adds no extra value.
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