DRM-Free eBook sellers

Cory Doctorow, via Boing Boing:

" Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo were all happy to carry my books without DRM, and on terms that gave you the same rights you got when buying paper editions. Sony and Apple refused to carry my books without DRM -- even though my publisher and I both asked them to."

I wonder why Apple responded this way, given their stated position on DRM-free music. It would be interesting to know more about the negotiations.

U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know It: Laurence Kotlikoff - Bloomberg

Via Doc Searls:

U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know It: Laurence Kotlikoff - Bloomberg:

"This is what happens when you run a massive Ponzi scheme for six decades straight, taking ever larger resources from the young and giving them to the old while promising the young their eventual turn at passing the generational buck."

I and my classmates have known this since high school in the early 1980's. But we haven't successfully done anything about it. I voted for Perot and contributed to the Concord Coalition for awhile; nothing more.

How do you visibly alter the momentum of a social system 3.0e8 times larger than yourself?

iHelp for Autism - - News - San Francisco - SF Weekly

iHelp for Autism - - News - San Francisco - SF Weekly:

"After he began spending 30 minutes at a time on apps designed to teach spelling, counting, drawing, making puzzles, remembering pictures, and more, she sat down at her own computer."

Maybe it is a magical device.