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I commented earlier that there would be only two ways Marx and Engels could reach a wide audience with The Communist Manifesto these days: rename it as Harry Potter and the Communist Manifesto or slice it up and circulate the pieces around FaceBook. I forgot YouTube. Someone has done a little video of John Galt's speech from Atlas Shrugged, cut it into easily-digestible chunks and posted it on YouTube. OK, "easily-digestible" can't be used for anything by Ayn Rand, even if it's in video form, but you get the idea. I await the YouTube version of Deuteronomy.

And then there's such as this

Date: 2008-02-22 04:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hfx-ben.livejournal.com
Every week they pick a segment for public release, free: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" - podcast collection. (Oh my, imperialistic cultural.hegemony bla-yada-blah huh huh *grin*)

Oh, say, please: I've yet.again re-factored my project ... what would you think of a discourse/discussion system that acts as a bridge between OpenAccess holdings and those publications that are held by subscription based publishers?

I'm trying to find a way to connect with the Encyclopedia of Life (I might have the URL wrong ... it's so hi-falutin' that it crashes my Firefox.) ... not so long ago UNESCO was backing a slightly related project: Encyclopedia of Life Support System, a simpler system.

Date: 2008-02-22 11:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vret.livejournal.com
I'm already teaching my cat to read so that I can make that Deuteronomy video.

Date: 2008-02-22 09:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solri.livejournal.com
And how appropriate that I picked Deuteronomy (http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/tseliot/5533) at random.

Date: 2008-02-24 05:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mein.livejournal.com
Mad good.

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