Henry Jenkins: Blog This. Just in case you thought this site was mere trivia.
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February 18th, 2002
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February 17th, 2002
A concise summary of the foolishness of the BT Patent claim in John’s Observer column.
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February 16th, 2002
On BBC Radio 4’s comedy programme ‘The Now Show’, the Winter Olympics was described as “38 different kinds of sliding”.
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February 16th, 2002
The Patent system is completely out of control. We all know this, but the frequency of foolishness is increasing. The current BT case does seem particularly silly. Is nothing sacred when it might be patentable?
On a related note Dave Winer has been very upset by the pressure on him to use Cascading Style Sheets, a technology which is a W3C web standard, and which I think he would agree is a good technology, but which he is worried is too closely tied to a Microsoft patent. (For Dave, who is normally a great standards-promoter, this is notable, but I think he went too far here. I, like many others, had almost forgotten about this patent issue. See Mark Pilgrim’s more reasonable summary).
The more fundamental our reliance on anything (like the axiom that the W3C should be looked to for web standards), the more it is a target for patent-hunters and hence the less we can rely on anything. The situation is very neatly commented on by this article in The Onion.
At some point, one hopes, the whole system must collapse and be laughed out of court. It’s not widely known that I actually own a patent which covers the whole patenting process, and so every patent really belongs to me…
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February 15th, 2002
John Casey defends Princess Margaret:
“In some ways, she was like Diana, Princess of Wales before her time. She had a weakness for some fairly trashy society – but much less than Diana had.
Her private life was conducted with much more discretion than Diana’s; and she remained absolutely loyal to the Monarchy. What she lacked was Diana’s mass appeal and brilliant gifts of manipulation – especially of the press.”
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February 14th, 2002
The FCC has approved limited use of UWB (Ultra Wide-Band radio) technology. Some details here.
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February 14th, 2002
Sometimes the simplest games are the best. JewelToy is a cute Mac OS X game based on Bejeweled.
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February 14th, 2002
just testing
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February 11th, 2002
John’s found some interesting statistics on U.S. Internet Use.
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February 10th, 2002
Oops! We caught a typo on the front page of CNN.com this evening:
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They fixed it very shortly afterwards.
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February 10th, 2002
A good friend was telling me about mistakes his students had made in essays. My favourite was “In America today, rape is on the incline.”
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February 9th, 2002
A very cute Flash animation. Pointless, of course, as is so much Flash stuff, but cute none the less. [Scripting News]
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