AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
be the star of the show.(tips for information services professionals)
Byline: DTebbutt
be the star of the show
Ever since Stewart Brand declared that "information wants to be free" in 1984, he has been misquoted and misinterpreted.
What he actually said was: "On the one hand, information wants to be expensive because it's so valuable: the right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."
When the web went public several years later and started to provide an astonishing volume of information, the "free information" idea ...
- Information wants to be free-bullcookies!(Information Trends)(Column)
- Magazine article from: Information Outlook July 1, 2004 700+ words
...the other hand, information wants to be free because...attribution at "Information Wants To Be Free" at http...Those who don't know history are doomed...there's anyone who knows that information wants to be expensive...
- How the $0 netbook might just help save the media industry; Information wants...
- Magazine article from: Advertising Age Dumenco, Simon June 8, 2009 700+ words
...considered a truism that "information wants to be free''a reality...I didn't even know what to call it...the rest of the "Information wants to be free'' manifesto...to be expensive. Information wants to be free because...
- Information Wants to Be Free; An Alexandria infopreneur shares his passion with...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Kevin McManus September 28, 1994 700+ words
"Give me any kind of food you like," Bruce Waldack says, his index finger poised on his mouse. "Pancakes? Let's take a look." Click-click. "Breakfast foods. Here we've got 16 different types: Wakeup Pancakes, basic pancake mix. . . ." Seconds later, the tour shifts to Shakespearean plays. Then onto
- It's better FOIA: information wants to be free.(Freedom of Information Act)
- Magazine article from: Reason Sanchez, Julia November 1, 2005 700+ words
...associate director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. "It's hard to say the law's being enforced well if we know there are cases where people don't give out information they're supposed to and there are no consequences." Among other...
- Adding a price tag: the New York times joins the ranks of news organizations...
- Magazine article from: American Journalism Review Robertson, Lori December 1, 2005 700+ words
On September 1, 2004, the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, dared to defy a Web-born dogma few want to cross: It started charging people to read the paper online. Seven whole dollars every month. Unless you were a faithful print subscriber--then you got everything free. Ken Sands, online
- ANALYST SPEAK: Why media owners will never make DRM work.(digital rights...
- Magazine article from: New Media Age Goodman, Michael June 14, 2007 700+ words
...distributors. Futurist Stewart Brand once remarked that "information wants to be free". Now that media has become bits flowing over...other half of Brand's remark: "On the other hand, information wants to be expensive because it's so valuable." De-commoditising...
- What's this review worth to you?
- Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press Anonymous August 9, 2009 700+ words
'Information wants to be free,' Internet-savvy editor argues Free The Future...technological change and how it impacts the marketplace. His mantra, "information wants to be free," is hard to dispute when it is applied to online...
- All rights preserved: IHEs explore new ways to protect intellectual property.
- Magazine article from: University Business Goral, Tim April 1, 2006 700+ words
...Catalog, once proclaimed, "Information wants to be free." Plagiarists...also wants to be expensive. Information wants to be free because it has become...faculty who created OCW, certainly knows Larry Lessig," says Carson...
Source: HighBeam Research, be the star of the show.(tips for information services professionals)