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Michael Hart's Online Writings

Some Pictures of Michael Hart

Some Writings

May The Source Be With You, Michael Hart's Hopes and Dreams for Project Gutenberg
Michael Hart's Vision of Project Gutenberg, Still in progress, but worth a look.
The Most Common Misconceptions of Project Gutenberg, Still in progress.
In Defense of Project Gutenberg: The Early 2007 Edition
A Word About Censorship and Free Speech, Why I Can't Say the Same Things to You on the Various Listservers.
Introduction to Michael Hart's Blog, A Brief Outline of the History of Project Gutenberg, The Net, etc.
An Introduction to Michael Hart, A Very Brief Introduction, More Later
The Project Gutenberg Philosophy, Just A Beginning, More Later
Who Invented eBooks?, Now That eBooks Are "Real". . .Who Get's The Credit?
My Education, An Early Chapter From My Memoirs, More Later
A Brief History of Project Gutenberg, Written on request, still in progress, comments welcome.
Why You Should Support Project Gutenberg,
eBooks Critics: Judging An eBook By Its Cover, Literally, How eBooks Critics Focus On Form/Formality Rather Than On Content
How Gutenberg Started The Industrial Revolution, Various Ways The Gutenberg Revolution led to The Industrial Revolution.
The Fifth Information Age, What You Didn't Know About The First Four Information Ages
Don't Judge A Book By The Cover, Replies to comments about form and formality for eBooks.
Why eBooks Should Be More Than eXeroxes, A Reply To Those Pushing For Scans and Canonical Errors
The History of Publishing, A Brief History of Publishing, Censorhip, and Copyright
Who Owns Copyrights?, Even Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens was forced to sell copyrights.
Predictions From January 1, 2006, Please send your suggestions for predictions to be included.
Prediction: Cell-Phone Growth Rates Will Peak In 2007-2008, Please send your suggestions for predictions to be included.
How Much Editing? How Many Editors?, Changes being made to the traditional publishing world by the invention of eBooks, eLibraries, blogs, etc.
In Defense of eBooks, Responses to Various Attacks
Counting Project Gutenberg eBooks, Responses to Various Suggestions
Fear and Fearmongering on the Internet, The uses of fear to control Internet discussion groups.
A First Look at 3rd Millennium Media, How The Power Elite Cannot Allow Bloggers to Replace Dan Rather.
Why So Many Dollars On Sports?, Why Don't The People Who Build Our World Get The Rewards?
No One's Personal Taste Rules PG, How Project Gutenberg Does NOT Reflect Anyone's Personal Taste
US School Systems, Systemic Failures, If the grass is greener on the other side of the schoolyard fence. . . ?
Growing Up In the 1950's, Was it better growing up with The Nelsons and the Cleavers?
The Chandelier Diatribe, Why are they promoting a new Dark Ages in the Information Age?
The Chandelier Diatribe Revisited, another essay about promoting new Information Age Dark Ages, taken from "A Brief History Of The Internet."
My Writing Style, A Few Comments About My Writing Style, and some Examples
Reality Sleeves, A Few Comments About How The Media and Politicians Fake Reality
The Cult of the Amateur, A Four Part Response to the Professional Punditry's Diatribes About the Inroads Being Made by the Internet on Their Monopolies.
eBooks Are Winning, A Response to the Professional Punditry's Diatribes In Which They Continually Ask Why eBooks Aren't Making It Whey They Know Full Well eBooks ARE Making It.
Einstein's Most Important Question, Einstein said, "The most important decision you will ever make is: whether you live in a positive universe or a negative universe."
Einstein's Most Important Question, A Translation of The Essay Into Italian, Einstein said, "The most important decision you will ever make is: whether you live in a positive universe or a negative universe."

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