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Welcome to another This Week in Sharing, I'm your host Malcolm, and here are the stars of our show, the fabulous and clickable Links:
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Governments have proven almost as stubborn as corporations when it comes to relaxing intellectual property restrictions. Which is why a recent pledge by the British government is so surprising.
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Despite losses, car-sharing service ZipCar is still beating Wall Street expectations and making share-holders happy.
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An award-winning Indian design for a backpack/pushcart is turning heads with its functionality, style, and low price.
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Google cries foul as Microsoft, Apple, and others use old patents to try to push up the prices on Android devices.
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We know we waste, but sometimes confronting the reality in any sector can be shocking. It certainly is in the fish industry.
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In Baltimore, when cities close public pools, people open up fire hydrants.
- There are a lot of arguments for relaxing copyright protections, this blog post argues that open access is a feminist program.
Comments
Neal Gorenflo wrote on 08.05.11, 12:06pm:
Hi Chelle,
Please contact Milicent Johnson, our organizer at Shareable, at milicent at shareable dot net.
And cc me at neal at shareable dot net
We may work something up for you like a flyer with a QR code. Just need to know what would be most helpful.
-Neal
Do you have any physical resources available - like something folks can scan with their phone to get to you guys? Not everyone here has these phones though, so I wonder about other physical manifestations of your work that would turn people on to you? We have a big Festival on Sept 24 & 25 - 6 Universities and a couple thousand older people too.