Chris Anderson responds to Malcolm Galdwell’s critique of Free on his blog, The Long Tail

The battle of pop sociologists just got a lot more interesting: in the latest issue of New Yorker magazine, Malcolm Gladwell does a fisking of Wired editor Chris Anderson’s new book “ Free ”, the book about the future of pricing and the value of IP (and by definition business models) in a digital …

Can comics and Shakespeare co-exist in the classroom? One innovative program in Texas is now a model for how kids can get creative with Shakespeare by making and sharing digital comics using Pixton, the groundbreaking online comic-builder.
The Miller Junior High School teaching team won the Time Warner Cable’s Spotlight on Education Award for their project [...]

A new NPD Group study finds that active Twitter users buy 77 percent more digital music downloads on average than non-users.

The impact of accelerating pay models cannot be underestimated: Newspaper publishers and studios will reconsider charging for online content, while consumers’ love of devices and what they load on them could cripple the Freemium paradigm.