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- Two Bits smackdown: Author vs. Lazyweb
Duke University Press wrote to say:
Two Bits has sold 1142 paperback copies (which doesn’t include publicity or review copies) since its release last June, and we are now preparing to reprint it. At this point we can correct any typos or mistakes that may have made their way into the final book. We cannot make [...]
- Oh. Wow. SISU Rocks Two Bits
Two Bits has been transformed into a “SISU” document.
SISU is a formatting language (created by Ralph Amissah) that is very simple (simpler than HTML) but powerful enough to allow translation of a document into multiple formats (XML, HTML, PDF, ODT and so on). It even has a word-concordance and an MD5 hash of the [...]
- Book of the Week.
I’m happy being anything of the week.
So this is a special pleasure, being profiled by the Times Higher education as the book of the week. Add to that, the review is really fantastic, and the author profile reveals my gentle side… or something
- Interview with Geert Lovink
Internet-famous activist and media theorist Geert Lovink just did an email interview with me about Two Bits.
The questions were sharp and some of the very best ones I’ve been asked. The original is at Networked Cultures, but I’ve reposted it here as well.On the Culture of Free Software
Interview with Christopher Kelty
By Geert Lovink
It is still [...]
- Two Bit Book Blog Processing Modulation Extravaganza 2008
I’m not a celebrity, but I play one on the famous internet.
This year at Harvard, I managed to fall in with a bad crowd: youth who have grown up entirely in the Internet era. They took my classes, they invited me to their absurd and wonderful conference, they’ve been making me perform [...]
- It’s a book! Two Bits
from Savage Minds…
So I have an announcement: I have written, and published, A Book. I know that Savage Minds readers harbor the suspicion that we are all just doing this gig until someone pulls the curtain back and we have to dust off our barista aprons and work for a living, but I am [...]
- They’rrre Heeeeere!
A big box of books is sitting on my desk this morning. They look fantastic. I just needed to say it to someone cause there’s no one else around here…
- Covers and postcards
Books are on their way…
I have covers, and postcards (Front and Back) and flyers….
- about
In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education.
Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made openly and freely available [...]
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