The Internet is Not Television
This is a great deconstruction of a Wired article that tries to tell us that internet users have an obligation to make online services profitable. A must-read for anybody who buys the idea that we have to charge subscriptions (or copyright fees, or other fees) in order to make online content provision (including educational content) profitable. More...

Toward a Better Internet: Building Prosocial Behavior into the Commons
Jane Park, Creative Commons, 2017/06/16
This is a longish post devoted to the idea that the license isn't everything in reuse (Alan Levine has been making this point for a dog's age). OIn this post, prosocial behaviours are contrasted with "negative behaviors that occur with online content sharing more generally." For example: using bots to remix and repost CC-licensed designs; harassment of marginalized groups; not respecting people’s desires and expectations about how content will be used; claiming CC0 public domain works as their own and monetizing them; and more. More...

Is there a difference between “real life” and the digital realm?
I’ve heard parents and professors talk about these worlds as distinct, but for young people who have grown up with the internet, they are one and the same. More...