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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Quick review of Content">
        <outline text="http://www.craphound.com/content/"/>
        <outline text="The title forms the common thread of all the collected works."/>
        <outline text="John Perry Barlow's foreword really captures the core essence."/>
        <outline text="How has digital technology changed the very nature of content in all its forms?"/>
        <outline text="The pieces range from light hearted to researched and serious."/>
        <outline text="&quot;Downloads Give Amazon Jungle Fever&quot;, exploring how Amazon can be so good about physical sales but so bad at digital downloads."/>
        <outline text="&quot;Microsoft Research DRM Talk&quot;, the first talk in the book."/>
        <outline text="There is a light touch and a humor throughout all, though."/>
        <outline text="This is a collection of bite sized chunks compared to Free Culture that is a lavish seven course meal."/>
        <outline text="It is just as satisfying, in its own way, because of the sheer number of offerings."/>
        <outline text="It also may be a bit more accessible as each piece stands alone."/>
        <outline text="In total, it covers many of the same topics and some different ones, besides."/>
        <outline text="Many of the pieces are just general ruminations on technology, some prodded clearly by the author's own vexations and irritations."/>
        <outline text="&quot;Amish Qwerty&quot; clearly draws an amusing picture of the author as made obsolete at 31 by a silly predictive keypad."/>
        <outline text="The book is imminently quotable, rich with metaphor."/>
        <outline text="I plan to re-read it a few times, with a highlighter and some sticky flags."/>
        <outline text="The more serious pieces, especially, are good fodder for arguing over issues of copyright reform and how digital goods should be produce, shared and consumed."/>
        <outline text="I had read some of the essays in the book, before, as many of you may have as well."/>
        <outline text="There was plenty of new to me material."/>
        <outline text="When I finished, though, I really was hungry for a more complete, comprehensive work from the author, on this subject or many like it."/>
        <outline text="I hope the book does well, and I encourage you to support it, so we can see what other  non-fiction works from Doctorow will look like."/>
        <outline text="You can sample the book completely for free, with the CC licensed electronic edition."/>
        <outline text="The print book is handsome and a totally worthy addition to any book shelf."/>
        <outline text="Like &quot;Little Brother&quot;, Cory has set up a schools and library program."/>
        <outline text="Even if you don't want a paper edition for yourself, this is another excellent title you can help support and help out readers who might not have access to it otherwise."/>
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    <outline text="Word of the Week: dink" Offset="09:45">
      <outline text="http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/dink.html"/>
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    <outline text="Readings from Content">
      <outline text="Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About yo  Steal on the Internet" Offset="10:41"/>
      <outline text="Amish for QWERTY" Offset="19:36"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="24:12">
      <outline text="Contact me">
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      <outline text="I'd like to thank libsyn.com for AAC hosting and Wouter de Bie for MP3 hosting"/>
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