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Author Archives: Brewster Kahle
My Blog Experience 1 Year In
I started this wordpress blog a year ago ( http://brewster.kahle.org )– pretty with-it, huh? Soon I will open a Friendster account ☺. I basically write what I would write in my journal: first draft ideas and inventions, and a yearly … Continue reading
Custom Schooling Workshop a Success! Video enclosed.
40 people came to the first workshop on “custom schooling“, an approach to schooling with class sizes from 1 to 4 that is surprisingly affordable, manageable, effective, and fun. Paper on the subject, that I recommend. Here are videos of … Continue reading
Debt-Free Housing for Public-Benefit Workers
Brewster Kahle January 9, 2012 On archive.org. The largest single expense for the staff of the Internet Archive is housing, as this paper will show the majority of the cost of housing goes to debt service (either directly through mortgage, … Continue reading
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Structural Problem with our Mortgage-based Home-ownership System
Unfortunately, as long as US homes are largely purchased with 30-year mortgages, we are going to see large price swings for houses as interest rates swing, and bail-outs are likely every time interest rates go up unless it goes up … Continue reading
Custom Schooling Workshop at the Internet Archive on Wed, Jan 11, 2012
Custom Schooling Workshop in San Francisco Everyone is welcome to the first workshop on “custom schooling“, an approach to schooling with class sizes from 1 to 4 that is surprisingly affordable, manageable, effective, and fun. Families and teachers that are … Continue reading
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Career Advice for a Better World: Food, Health, Housing, Education. Pick One.
Food, Health, Housing, Education. Pick One. If we pick a big goal, a high goal, a worthy goal, and then work to make a difference, then we might make some progress and avoid some of the classic pitfalls. A worthy … Continue reading
Debt-free Housing for Public-Benefit Workers
A growing number of non-profit organizations are appearing to solve all sorts of public benefit missions from health, education, assistance for the less fortunate. Those that decide to work in these non-profit organizations often forgo some of the financial rewards … Continue reading
Essense of Richard Stallman’s Free Software Idea
Can a system support the benefits to many entities that had previously been confined to a single entity? Furthermore, can this be done without support of law or government, since laws can be reshaped to benefit the few at the … Continue reading
Michael Hart of Project Gutenberg Passes
A dear friend and an inspiration unfortunately died yesterday. Washpost obituary. He dedicated his life to getting books to everyone in the world. He did this with no compensation and lived a life of near poverty. But he always shined … Continue reading
AP piece on the Physical Archive of the Internet Archive
The AP wrote a article and made a video about the physical archive of the Internet Archive. This is our storage system for millions of books that I wrote about on the Archive Blog. We hope to expand it to … Continue reading
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