[Original Link] If the copyright system is broken, then roll your own. That’s what Creative Commons are doing. And O’Reilly and others are using it.
Founders’ Copyright
May 3rd, 2003
OpenOffice Saves My Day, Again
May 2nd, 2003
[Original Link] A nice story by Jonathan Gennick.
Two sides to every coin
May 1st, 2003
My friend Martin King drew my attention to this wonderful example of journalistic differences. Even if you only read the headlines, have a look at the same talk by Alan Greenspan reported in the Seattle Times and the Economist.
Good news
April 29th, 2003
Two related recent announcements are both welcome:
A US court decision that file-swapping is not illegal.
“The ruling means that the labels and studios cannot ban 21st century technology in defence of their inefficient and outmoded 20th century distribution model,” said President of Grokster, Wayne Rosso.
And Apple’s very cool new music store means that people who wish to purchase music legally in a 21st-century way can do so. As long as they have a credit card with a U.S. billing address.
University finds innovative uses for iPods
April 28th, 2003
[Original Link] (from MacCentral)
Browsing is just the beginning
April 28th, 2003
[Original Link] John helps get RSS into the public consciousness.
Status-Q: Always on the bleeding edge…
April 22nd, 2003
[Original Link] Here’s a view of this weblog as seen in Chandler 0.1:
Good to know that it runs on Mac OS X. Even better to know that it’s mostly written in Python.
Taking Note of Journalism’s Worst
April 22nd, 2003
[Original Link] Richard Cohen: A Media Empire’s Injustices. “Since 1917 the Pulitzer Prizes — named for their creator, the 19th-century press baron Joseph Pulitzer — have been awarded to encourage excellence in journalism. I happen to think that more could be accomplished with a prize for the worst in journalism. It should be called the Murdoch….” [link from Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]
Vertical Keyboards
April 22nd, 2003
[Original Link] [link from the Guardian Online blog]
The new Honda ad
April 22nd, 2003
[Original Link] An advertising classic. More info about how it was made here.
Deserves a place alongside the Apple ‘1984’ ad, of which more here. If you want a really in-depth look at the Apple ad and its place in history, I suggest this paper by Ted Friedman.
Mitch gets misrepresented
April 21st, 2003
[Original Link] While not wanting to compare myself in any way with Mitch Kapor (!), this has happened all too often to me, in minor ways, so I can understand his sentiments:
“… Journalistic misrepresentation like this is fairly common. CNET also got it wrong, something I wrote about early on in this weblog. I used to get really angry when this happened. Lately, I feel more half-irritated, half-amused by life’s foibles. Journalists taking the easy way out is a fact of life I’m not going to have much impact on.
In hindsight, I think it was naive of me to believe in the assurances I was given. . I’ll bear it in mind in the future and pick my interview spots more carefully.
Finally, it’s fortunate that a weblog is a wonderful, alternate, and complementary forum in which to speak directly, thus by-passing the intermediation of formal media. “
Upside down maps
April 21st, 2003
[Original Link] Thanks to Adam Curry for the link.
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