The idea of honest executives is a hard one to encapsulate, so when I saw Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols blog post about Honest Technology Executives I had to read it, and it is pretty amusing. So I did some poking around, and found another blog post of his entitled Five Reasons to Fire Ballmer (for those […]
Monthly archives: June 2008
AP Violates Own Copyright Law By Quoting 22 Words from TechCrunch
Yep. Seriously. You can read it here. Also PJ at Groklaw has written an excellent article called What’s Fair Use, Anyway? AP Has a Thought, and So Do I that I highly recommend. It doesn’t look this this one is going to go away anytime soon.
Drudge Retort, Media Bloggers Association, and Associated Press
It appears that the situation is far more complex than it appeared immediately. A statement made by Robert Cox of the Media Bloggers Association attempts to clear things up: 1) The Drudge Retort accepts user generated content. 2) Apparently some users were posting complete AP articles. 3) Rogers Cadenhead is in effect for this case […]
Activism and Wikipedia
Yeah, Wikipedia isn’t always accurate. You have to cross check what you find, to be sure of the accuracy (which you should have been doing anyway ). That said, it tends to be more accurate than a lot of sources, and you can find some truly amazing things there. About 10-15 years ago my Father-in-Law […]
The Associated Press Embargo Part Deux
Mary Hodder has pointed out at BoingBoing that the stories in both the New York Times and AP covering the story claimed that negotiations were going to occur with a blogging group about what could and couldn’t be posted. Mary has written a correction of this in the blog Napsterization. Rogers Cadenhead of Drudge Retort […]
The Associated Press Embargo
It appears that the Associated Press has lost it’s collective mind. Or it’s getting REALLY bad legal advice. They’ve tried to attack the Drudge Retort using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act based on the fact that the Drudge Retort used direct quotes, of less than 80 words in it’s reports. This story has also been […]
Pulling Together A Random Album Name And Cover
Ganked from figmo who ganked it from folkmew…. 1 – Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 – Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. 3 – Go […]
The Poor, Poor, Puppy
I took Mark outside to do his business just before Canada’s Worst Handyman was about to start. We’d just gotten into the back yard, when there was a bright, bright flash. About 4 second later there was a huge “Kaboom.” Mark jumped about 6 feet straight up, and took off for the door like a […]
I hate it when Firefox crashes
Writer’s Block: Irksome Films
Irksome Films? There’s so many of them. The Avengers Thunderbirds The Pink Panther (the one with Steve Martin) Hollywood has this ability to totally mess up anything and everything. I understand that they are doing an American version of Life on Mars, and that they’ve now bought the rights to do an American version of […]