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via Pratham Books by Gautam on April 02, 2008
... hate Wikipedia,And newspapers hate Craigslist,And music labels hate Napster,And used bookstores hate Amazon,And so do independent bookstores.And courier services hate fax machinesAnd monks hate Gutenberg.Apparently, technology doesn't care who you hate.What's a publisher to do? What's an author to do? What's an illustrator to do?_____________________Picture via kokjebalder
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Catalog
via Pratham Books by Gautam on April 03, 2008
This is our current catalog:Read this doc on Scribd: Pratham Books Catalogue
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Pangea Day. Kenyans sing for India.
via Pratham Books by Gautam on April 07, 2008
Leading film-makers are seeking to change the way we think about other countries. This is one of a powerful series of films to be shown on Pangea Day, May 10, "the day the world comes together through film".Here, set against the backdrops of Nairobi city and the beautiful landscape of Uhuru Park (Maasai country), a Kenyan choir sings the Indian national anthem. The director has chosen the Indian...
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Publishers told to learn to hug trees too
via Pratham Books by Purvi on April 07, 2008
... and printing industry to look at ways and means to reduce pollution as well as lower the consumption of precious raw material. The CM called on the stakeholders to look at new technology to reduce this dependence on polluting know-how. Speaking on the occasion, the Union minister of state for environment, Mr Namo Narain Meena said while the government has set out stringent norms for the pa...
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Shekhar Kapur Gets It.
via Pratham Books by Gautam on April 14, 2008
A mainstream content creator who actually believes that piracy is not the evil that it's made out to be? Surely not!"Intellectual Property (IP) is not and cannot be either constant or extreme. If it were, then in the modern world there would be no chance of sharing of ideas, of scientific discovery, even of propagation of faith.""We are more and more moving int a digital and an instantaneous...
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Learning Tomorrow. Leaving Today.
via Pratham Books by Gautam on April 15, 2008
In my future model the "school" is only a PC/game machine/mobile phone/headset thingee that clues me in about everything around me and helps me learn what I need to know. Why would I ever give that up? The truth is we won't. If we have more students, we just build more devices. Classrooms aren't absolutely necessary, nor will location even matter.Robert Cringely thinks...
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Open Source Economics
via Pratham Books by Gautam on April 17, 2008
"Law professor Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law and established competition, they're paving the way for a new set of economic laws, where empowered individuals are put on a level playing field with industry giant."
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Crowdsourcing is Exploitation?
via Pratham Books by Gautam on April 22, 2008
Or maybe it isn't.No one is being forced or compelled to do these translations. They're doing it because they are getting compensated in their own way. It's either recognition from the community, or merely the fact that doing this enables them to use Facebook more effectively -- and that's compensation enough. For the users who do the translation, it's obviously a fair trade,...
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Publishers go blog-hunting for content
via Pratham Books by Purvi on April 27, 2008
A visit to the vegetable mandi brought home a strange cucumber that bore an uncanny resemblance to the letters 'Om' in Sanskrit. And the family that bought it thinks there's a divine intervention at work. Within minutes, there is chaos ruling. Neighbours come rushing in and so do print media and news channels.Such a cock-eyed and fictional look at a "holy" incident that happened with...
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On Cognitive Surpluses
via Pratham Books by Gautam on April 27, 2008
Clay Shirky on television, it's slow death spiral and the rise of Wikis.If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. Starting with the Second World War a whole series of things happened--rising GDP per capita, rising educational attainment, rising...
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