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8085. arkymalarky - 11/9/2014 9:02:29 PM Hacktivist are not common hackers, and they and had a role in Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, & a whole lot of other activities that most people don't bother to get involved in but which are very important to preserving what freedoms we have. 8086. arkymalarky - 11/9/2014 9:11:21 PM www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-brilliant-life-and-tragic-death-of-aaron-swartz-20130215 8088. judithathome - 11/9/2014 10:07:36 PM I think I immediately bristled at the mention of Pivot TV...that used to be my favorite channel...until it became Pivot. Previously, it ran all sorts of interesting documentaries and interviews with people in the arts.
Then it went "younger" and left all the previous programming behind and completely lost me as a viewer. (Can't even recall what the channel was called previously...)
But I'll read up on him...sad that he died so young. 8089. judithathome - 11/9/2014 10:09:50 PM Heh...looked up "Pivot TV" and the channel it took over was: The Documentary Channel. (eyeroll....) 8090. arkymalarky - 11/9/2014 10:52:47 PM I don't watch it regularly, but they show good progressive movies and documentaries. very left-leaning, but Megan McCain is on it. I have been an Aaron Swartz fan since his suicide. that's when I first heard of him. there's a major war over information, privacy, free speech, free access that will affect us all and imo he did more than any one individual to shed light on it. 8091. arkymalarky - 11/9/2014 10:59:14 PM JSTOR calls itself a non-profit, but I have a real problem with the capitalization of academic information that we all pay our taxes to support. I looked into getting a license for delight several many years ago, and found that it would be thousands and thousands of dollars. Not right. That information should be available to everybody. He also focuses on the fact that we have to pay to get information about laws and court cases and other information that should be free. I never thought about it until Swartz died, because I always had access to it, but if you don't have a connection to an institution that pays for that service you don't get it. I don't like the proprietary nature of a lot of people and companies on the internet, and I find it interesting that people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates got their start as thieves of what other people were creating, and they became so protective of their own stuff that they are the buzzards of tech. Zuckerberg is the same. 8092. judithathome - 11/10/2014 12:18:28 AM Well, I certainly don't know much about what you're citing but I trust your opinions on this sort of thing because I know how much you invested in the educational things for your state and all the time and "passion" you spent involved with that project...and I know for a fact that I detest Zuckerberg and how he is profiting off everyone using Facebook.
8093. judithathome - 11/10/2014 12:20:35 AM I'll check Pivot out and try to overcome my bias that they took away my "documentary" outlet...I would rather watch documentaries than the crap Hollywood churns out as "movies" these days. 8094. arkymalarky - 11/10/2014 12:33:21 AM it's like Michael Moore movies. I always look at the schedule. 8095. arkymalarky - 11/10/2014 12:40:14 AM we benefitted hugely from our access to internet tools. and rural people benefit in ways they will feel if certain changes occur. but that's okay at least things are moving forward in Rwanda: allafrica.com/stories/201411031835.html/ 8097. arkymalarky - 11/10/2014 12:52:30 AM https://archive.org/index.php 8098. iiibbb - 11/10/2014 2:29:12 AM Google scholar is becoming fairly effective at looking up research. Most authors will send you a reprint if you ask.
Another place to look is Research Gate (facebook for researchers) you can often get preprints there... Which are the draft before the galley proofs...
Also, if you physically go to a library, you can usually download or email whatever you need. 8099. arkymalarky - 11/10/2014 3:47:14 AM A lot of that has changed as a result of Swartz, including JSTOR opening a lot for free. Regarding Google Scholar, I haven't looked at it in a while, but I've been frustrated to find a lot of abstracts where you can't get the whole piece without paying. this stuff is online it ought to be accessible there. 8100. arkymalarky - 11/10/2014 3:51:15 AM even working with students on ar Ed research on traveler has been more frustrating than it should be for public schools. not a fault of traveler:
www.library.arkansas.gov/libraryDivisions/travelerAccess/Pages/default.aspx 8101. arkymalarky - 11/10/2014 3:57:42 AM Before the internet I would take 60 kids or more 30 miles to the nearest University Library, where my dad happened to be a professor, and my English teacher colleague and I would use our own cards to check out books for those kids, and one of us, usually me, would deliver the books back in huge piles to the library. Magazines were a different story. We had to bring plenty of dimes so kids could make copies. The Internet has revolutionized research,education, and the ability to acquire and analyze knowledge. Swartz himself used that knowledge to expose a lot of what people needed to know. 8102. arkymalarky - 11/10/2014 4:04:00 AM I know about research gate, as well, but again, it's limited wrt what it has. here's something from them regarding Swartz and his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto:
www.researchgate.net/publication/254956081_Open-Sourcing_the_Global_Academy_Aaron_Swartz's_Legacy 8103. arkymalarky - 11/10/2014 4:05:45 AM only the abstract is available at the moment. 8104. iiibbb - 11/10/2014 4:07:07 AM If you find the abstract, try emailing the author. I don't think anyone has ever refused to send me a pdf.
I'm at a smallish university. Their interface is pretty slick now. Walk in, get on a PC, use your favorite search engine to look up an article, download the pdf to a thumb drive, or email it to myself.
One thing I've always wondered is whether the inter-library loan system works for public libraries. I think it does.
So it may not be as easy for joe public to acquire cites as it is for me, it's not impossible to get a paper copy without going through a paywall. 8105. iiibbb - 11/10/2014 4:09:22 AM Regarding that Research Gate abstract... see the button to the right that says "Request Full Text". Try clicking that. 8106. iiibbb - 11/10/2014 4:10:56 AM Or click here
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