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…the future belongs to those who take the present for granted.
— Clay Shirky on the lesson from Aldus Manutius’ life, in Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. Recommended reading.
A harrowing tale about a book headed towards doom, only to detour towards its author upon a European journey back to Airspace Workshop.
Take a good look at that t-shirt above. It’s from the 1970’s, the exact date isn’t known, but I noticed it while flipping through Rin Tanaka’s My Freedamn! 2.
Why you may ask!? Well aside from its awesomeness, the typography looked strangely familiar to me. It took me a moment, but then I realized it was exactly the same as a certain poster I have above my desk.
Now the t-shirt was made in the 70’s, the book was published in 2004, and the poster arrived in 2005, during Fairey’s residence at the Contemporary Museum. The moral of the story? Keep your sources dusty.
Abundant information wants to be free. Scarce information wants to be expensive.
— Chris Anderson in Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Free doesn’t encourage piracy. Piracy encourages Free.
— Chris Anderson in Free: The Future of a Radical Price
We interrupt the final leg of the 2009 Hana Relay for this important announcement:
Tonight! Thursday, September 24th at 6p.m. Airspace Workshop will be hosting our inaugural-soon-to-be-named-something-catchy book club. We will be discussing Chris Anderson’s Free: The Future of a Radical Price. If you enjoy nerdy banter, Kaimuki, and literacy, I invite you to join us in dialogue (it helps if you read the book, or at least listen to the free abridged audio version before hand).
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We now return to Samson peeing, already in progress.
The atoms economy is inflationary, while the bits economy is deflationary.
I’m starting a book club for anyone that’s interested in the same dorky tech/business books that I’m into. The first book is Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired. Meetup date is Thursday September 17th at 6 p.m. at Airspace Workshop.
