The Open Road Blog

James Grime's piece in The Guardian—How YouTube Is Popularizing Science—is a fun opportunity to explore science lessons long forgotten "with no pressure or expectations." Also, if you haven't yet seen posts elsewhere, Rebecca Greenfield's piece on Monday in The Atlantic—Designing a 19th-Century Kindle: An E-Reader for Dickens—took a look at how art student Rachel Walsh elected to convey the concept of the Amazon Kindle to Charles Dickens. Incredible!—Laura

If you use Flickr, I bet you've seen these wonderful photographs: Running ahead of myself, Sunny Side Up, Trees Snow and Shadows. In weeks, ...

Oliver Reichenstein of IA makes an astute case for a "Business Class for News," which, as a long-time happy subscriber to Ars Technica's Premium Service, I think has much greater potential to be a viable business model for publishers than does a traditional paywall. 

Cory Doctorow in the Guardian has a great, quick write-up of the recently-released "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies" report: 

"This weighty, 440-page report took thirty-five researchers three years to produce, and it is a careful, thoroughly documented rebuttal of practically everything you've ever heard or read about copyright infringement in the ...

Personally, I was very excited to see this: A Spanish company is starting what can only be described as "Netflix for Books," launching later this summer. Also, Amazon to start Kindle Library Lending Program with Overdrive.—Pablo

This week in The Guardian, David Thomson writes about the movies of Terrence Malick and the anticipation surrounding the release of his latest film The Tree of Life. Malick is one of my favorite contemporary American directors and, like countless others, I'm anxious to see The Tree of Life. The movie is set to open May 4 in the U.K., but there ...