EduGlu Sandbox

Clay Shirky's essay on Gin, Television, and Social Surplus is highly recommended.

"I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.

Few people other than intellectual property geeks and stakeholders will be aware of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA. And why should they?