Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

We expect that many of the big issues with the current text will get ironed out this week. After the last WIPO session in November, the World Blind Union convened a group of experts to review the current Treaty draft and make recommendations to the WBU on the most important issues for WBU to work on in this next session.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Bookshare’s role was mixed: we didn’t end up attending many of these meetings and critiqued early efforts that were crippled by heavy-handed publisher influence, although we did propose at one point to supply technology to TIGAR based on Bookshare. The disability groups understood the issue, but didn’t want to agree to provide such a carrot.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

However, there is another issue related to the importance of growing your subscribers: email list churn. However, creating any digital guide (petition, checklist, infographic, eBook, online course) is not enough to ensure success. What are people searching for online related to these issues and questions? Audio files or Videos.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The Machine Project and the Hammer Museum have just released an incredible ebook documenting Machine's year-long residency at the Hammer in 2010. Artist as Problem Explorer Mark Allen (director of Machine Project) and I have talked about this issue several times, and Mark articulates it beautifully. No, this is not a reality TV show.

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