Does information really want to be free?

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Two views on a favorite meme of the Internet age. Robert Niles writes on Online Journalism Review that news publishers are struggling "because the market's telling them just how worthless" their product — a commodity called information — actually is. But on Scholarly Kitchen, Kent Anderson writes that data is never free: "Unless we fully realize the costs and obligations of being digital, we’re likely to mistakenly believe it can be free."

June 13, 2012

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