Good Bye Space CowBoy

So who is the Digital Liberian it is me and you (or is it I can never seem to remember the correct grammer) anyways the Digital Liberian is a scrounger and archiver. He is sometimes also a "pirate" but most importantly what he is;is an informed user and producer. He believes in free open knowledge and sharing what he enjoys as well as creates. It doesn't have to be a massive coded program, a piece of music or anything like that it can be a simple edited image of themselves wearing a funny hat.

The digital librarian believes in  a free and open internet and technological realm where it's okay to tinker and improve. The most important value to remember is to use the tools we have to spread knowledge and joy but never harm.

Enough of the pesudo sounding philosophy I believe these words from Andrew "bunnie" Huang encapsulate the point I'm trying to make in the following points from the afterword of Little Brother he is taking about hackers but I believe the same sentiment applies to the digital librarian 

Hacking Space By Mack Male

"Hackers are explorers, digital pioneers. It's in a hacker's nature to question conventions and be tempted by intricate problems. Any complex system is sport for a hacker; a side effect of this is the hacker's natural affinity for problems involving security. Society is a large and complex system, and is certainly not off limits to a little hacking. As a result, hackers are often stereotyped as iconoclasts and social misfits, people who defy social norms for the sake of defiance. When I hacked the Xbox in 2002 while at MIT, I wasn’t doing it to rebel or to cause harm; I was just following a natural impulse, the same impulse that leads to fixing a broken iPod or exploring the roofs and tunnels at MIT." 

 "However, the motivations of a hacker are typically as simple as “I’m an engineer because I like to design things.” People often ask me, “Why did you hack the Xbox security system?” And my answer is simple: First, I own the things that I buy. If someone can tell me what I can and can’t run on my hardware, then I don’t own it. Second, because it’s there. It’s a system of sufficient complexity to make good sport"