10/12/07

Apt’s links for December 9th

• Doris Lessing - Nobel Lecture - The Nobel Lecture in Literature was delivered on Friday 7 December at the Swedish Academy, Stockholm by Nicholas Pearson, Doris Lessing’s publisher in the UK.
• 23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies - So - some really quite useful stuff here then.
• Cory Doctorow: Creative Commons - “while yesterday’s authors … could draw on a .. pool of copyrighted works to use for free and without limitation, today’s copyright users might have to dig back more than a century to find works that they can copy, transform, and re-use (think of how Wa
• Hearing Loss: A Popless Preview | The A.V. Club - “Beginning January 1st … I’m not going to buy or listen to any new music. I’m not even going to buy any new old music. I’m going to spend those months dealing with what I’ve already got on hand—which is, frankly, more than any normal person sh
• Victor Keegan: How long should copyright last? | Technology | The Guardian - “John Tehranian, a law professor at the University of Utah, has totted up all the infringements he could have made in a typical day”
• Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Spray-Painting Pynchon - “police … began receiving reports … of a particularly academic form of graffiti — red spray-painted allusions to the work of the postmodern author Thomas Pynchon”

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Links.