Comments on: knowledge wants to be free (doesn’t it?) http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/ ecoculture, geophilosophy, mediapolitics Sat, 21 Oct 2017 06:55:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.2 By: Game Up http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1140 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:08:48 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1140 I was very interested in AAAARG.org I read you whole post and then went to visit the site just to find it dead. Shame. What happened to it anyway?

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By: immanence http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1142 Sat, 29 May 2010 04:52:01 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1142 AAAARG lies in state

As of yesterday, academic file-sharing library AAAARG appears to be dead. (This time for real.) Digital death, however, is rarely total or eternal, and arg-ists at the Facebook group (find it yourself) appear to be awaiting instructions about the next …

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By: himanshu damle http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1139 Thu, 13 May 2010 06:30:04 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1139 The site has been a boon. Now, you cannot have any new accounts on it it seems, but then i was lucky enough to land up on the site in time.

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By: Watercolor Pencils http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1138 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:04:44 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1138 I love your blog!!

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By: Graham http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1137 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:59:03 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1137 The site you mentioned above is excellent. Although many people have cashed in on the internet the original idea was to make INFORMATION free to everyone so that is a really good site. My own site in the health related market is simply information based and we hope to pay for it by allowing a few Adsense adverts which pay a few cents per click. It just about pays for the upkeep of the site which is great

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By: anxiousmodernman http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1136 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:47:34 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1136 Great post. These are vital questions.

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By: uberVU - social comments http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1141 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:00:11 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1141 Social comments and analytics for this post

This post was mentioned on Twitter by AAAARG: RT @jmtrombley: Immanence: Knowledge Wants to be Free (doesn’t it?) http://bit.ly/cdjbir on @aaaarg, google and knowledge sharing.

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By: adrian http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1135 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:08:14 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1135 Fabio – Thanks for your post. I agree that aaaarg is a great resource, and my writing about it is partly intended to let others (who aren’t aware of it yet) know about its existence. It’s inevitable that it will come into the crosshairs of publishers (Columbia isn’t the first to notice it), but even if that ends up restricting what’s available – which, I suspect, would take time and a fight – I think the tide of open-access and file-sharing won’t be stemmed so easily, and that more and more sites like it will pop up as digital books become more prevalent. We need libraries – especially for academic books – and there’s no good reason why they shouldn’t be in cyberspace, just as bookstores are.

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By: Fabio http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1134 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:17:11 +0000 http://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2010/02/08/knowledge-wants-to-be-free-doesnt-it/#comment-1134 Adrian,

as you say, for a grad student for (like me) — with thousands of euros/pounds/dollars of accumulated debt from a student loan, no fixed income and who shops for food in the cheapest supermarket — I think that something like aaaarg is just great. Take care, I do buy books, and many. But not all those that I would like to have. Until a *really* good ereader for .pdf will finally come out, I sill prefer a book over a PC screen.

But open access is not only about money (saved): is about a restructuring of scholarship as a whole. You probably know already about Gary Hall’s ‘Culture Machine’: projects of this kind actually work, and achieve a readership far wider than ‘normal’ publishing. Isn’t that the point of being a scholar? I regularly suggest aaarg to students, and in fact I stress the importance of just browsing around, to discover books you did not know before.

Finally, I knew that sooner or later someone would put aaaarg in the crosshair. It will take time to bring it down (i have no idea about who actually runs it). In the meantime I will start downloading as much as I can from it and to create torrents — and I suggest to everyone out there to do the same.

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