MAC309: The cost of 'free'

This week's MAC309 session looked at the ideas presented by Chris Anderson in his recent book, Free. You can find the slides below. We also looked at the various costs attached to free services like webmail and search, such as our attention and our privacy



You can also hear Chris Anderson talking about his ideas here (and even download the podcast as an mp3) and watch a video here:



You can find a critique of Anderson's argument here by Cory Doctorow

Next week we will look at another kind of free, when we consider the ideas of Matt Mason and The Pirates Dilemma