By ottonomy on June 10, 2010
After writing a review of Anya Kamenetz’s book on education reform, DIY U yesterday, in which I mentioned that I thought it was a larger issue than cost control, I woke up this morning to a BBC article specifically about reducing costs in higher ed. I don’t disagree when people say this is a huge issue, and I [...]
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By ottonomy on June 9, 2010
Anya Kamenetz’s book on education reform, DIY U, was a worthwhile read. In the first half of the book, she discusses the problems confronting America’s higher ed infrastructure. Her perspective here is useful, bringing in information about spiraling student debt loads and increasing tuition. As a 2008 college graduate, I experienced many of these problems [...]
Posted in Free Culture | Tagged books, education, Open Education Blogs |
By ottonomy on October 7, 2009
I think there has been a change in how people experience music in the last couple years, brought on by the buildup of services that offer streaming songs. This follows up in the vein of the previous trend in music discovery, illegal downloading, which the music industry labeled “piracy.” The new streaming paradigm avoids the [...]
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By ottonomy on October 6, 2009
I’m on a ton of political email lists from different sides. I saw Dick Armey’s big push to have his anti-big-government rally on 9/12 from both angles, I get ACLU’s updates, environmental letters, NYT news summaries, the whole gamut. I agree and disagree with each source some of the time, but am usually interested to [...]
Posted in Free Culture | Tagged net neutrality |
By ottonomy on June 30, 2009
This rant was written in response to a column by the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Connie Schultz. She argues that Internet news aggregation is killing traditional newspapers and that dismantling the public’s right to quote the day’s news articles is the solution to maintain newspapers’ profitability. She quotes her paper’s lawyer: “It’s unfair competition with unjust [...]
Posted in Free Culture, Politics | Tagged journalism, media |
By ottonomy on April 19, 2009
This post follows from a couple links I posted on Facebook recently. There is a conflict between an old model and a new one. The giants of media are on one side, and “blogs” are on the other. Similar to most conflicts about copyright, there is a division between the old guard and people who [...]
Posted in Free Culture | Tagged fair use, news |
By ottonomy on April 2, 2009
http://ottonomy.net/drupal/?q=node/12 I’ve joined an open education course offered by Mozilla that starts this morning. The above link doesn’t have anything there yet, but if you’re interested in open ed, subscribe to the course feed link below. ”’[http://ottonomy.net/drupal Nate Otto: "Free Schooler"/Writer]”’ * Email: nate AT ottonomy.net * Based in: Eugene, OR * Blog: http://ottonomy.net/blog (unrelated [...]
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