May 2009
79 posts
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RT @TechCrunch: Google’s Public Policy Chief [Andrew McLaughlin] To Be Deputy CTO for Obama Administration http://tcrn.ch/2rr (via @kwerb)
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DoJ sides with consumers on home recording, recommends Supreme Court pass on Cablevision case: http://bit.ly/CQVXJ (via @publicknowledge)
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@wa8dzp If your iPhone is jailbreaked, BossPrefs app might do this. At least I can turn off EDGE on my 1G iPhone (haven’t upgraded yet).
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@DavidGootzit what do you think of Google Wave? Like that it won’t necessarily kill Facebook and Twitter, but can enhance the conversations.
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EFF uses “Downfall” for DMCA commentary. http://bit.ly/v52HX Of course, Hitler hates fair use! Legally difficult to even make this vid.
Cory Doctorow: We must ensure ISPs don't stop the... →
FCC report: Net neutrality important to rural... →
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Hulu coming to XBox? http://bit.ly/Vgvha How’s boxee any different? So much for Hulu claiming it only wants to be seen on computer screens.
Why Is It So Hard To Set Up A Pan-European Music... →
The Next Big Copyright Battle? The 'Real-Time' Web... →
need to read — “Real time” is the new meme.
EFF Launches Copyright Curriculum To Counter RIAA... →
Headline says it all — some balanced copyright teaching materials for schools.
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@philohme if you get into Google Wave and have invites, please lemme know! I’d love to try it out.
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Teachers: check out EFF’s balanced Teaching Copyright Curriculum: http://www.teachingcopyright.org/ (via @publicknowledge)
“The band gets it: these are “super fans.” They’re not...”
– Band Celebrates ‘Super Fan’ Who Burns Their CD And Gives It Out To Everyone | Techdirt
iFUN.de/iPhone :: Alles zum iPhone − Die nächste... →
photos of the supposedly new parts of the next gen iPhone. Would like to translate to see what they’re saying, can’t really understand which part is the top or bottom of the faceplate.
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“Copyright Needs Limits, As It Restricts Innovation” by CEA’s Gary Shapiro http://bit.ly/e2HrZ (via @publicknowledge)
Star Wars ABC - a set on Flickr →
An amazing set of Star Wars ABC illustrations.
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AllThingsD7 has hightlight videos. Murdoch and Twitter guys were yesterday, Randall Stephenson (AT&T) up this morning. http://bit.ly/BttAr
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@liz315 wow, congratulations!
Google Launches Maps Data API - O'Reilly Radar →
Bob, you may be able to use Google’s Mapping API to build your iPhone service more easily
Amazon’s New Service Goes Postal Over Slow... →
More and more reasons we need faster broadband — the vital data that services run on and users accumulate can’t be hosted fast enough through the network. For some large amounts of data, it’s faster…
Columns: 'Dr Pangloss' by Brian Eno | Prospect... →
Maybe the “death” of music recordings brings on the birth of a new visual art.
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Trying out Twittetific for iPhone. Pretty nice, especially with threads view a la Tweetie on the Mac.
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@mmasnick but paying who? 3rd ptys like p2p’s still get sued b/c there’s no license. so back to only approved sellers & old biz models
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@mmasnick will it impact? Isn’t choruss just a covenent not to sue students? It’s not a license, doesn’t protect against 2ndary liability
Fair Use Is Your Friend video makes complex... →
Today, American University’s Center for Social Media and AU Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, together with Stanford Law School’s Fair…
Girl Talk On Remix As An Art Form | Techdirt →
Quick look at Girl Talk’s Greg Gillis’ attitude towards transforming old samples into new music, and a discussion of the legality in today’s climate.
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Is this what’s going to happen on ABC’s Lost next season (from TV’s 1974 Land of the Lost)? http://bit.ly/17DVcR see bullet # 2. @jayandjack
Vuze Looks For Money In Porn →
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Adium 1.4b1 adds twitter support. Interesting, but I’m not uninstalling Tweetie just yet.
YouTube - Sara Bareilles - Take on me (cover) →
80legs Cares About Your Bandwidth Cap →
An innovative service that crowdsources crawling the web that has to deal with users’ ISP broadband caps.
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boxee in Business Week http://bit.ly/F1OxO and Fortune http://bit.ly/sIdn5 (via @boxee)
Non Profit Website Design: Examples and Best... →
Some good ideas for improving PK website. Need to consider more closely.
AT&T Blocks SlingPlayer over its 3G network, still... →
You may have read that this past week SlingMedia finally released its much anticipated SlingPlayer for the iPhone. It’s an application that lets you remotely stream video and remotely control your…
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Screen looks at piracy and reasons we need better strategies than France and MPAA http://bit.ly/NgX4s (via @bnewman01)
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@mike_ho iPod Touch 2G should be able to do bluetooth soon with iPhone 3 software (Apple said it was bt capable with firmware upgrade).
3 Free Ways to Transfer Movies from TiVo DVRs →
Need to download one and start using to get my video off of TiVo so we can watch it on the computer or on the go.
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A modest proposal: Three strikes for print. http://bit.ly/16KBzF (via @kirkbiglione)
Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy:... →
Check out the video of how this works. I think replaceable batteries in cars probably makes the most sense to solve the range issue for EVs. No reason the car couldn’t plug in as well. It’d be great…
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There is no such thing as ‘good frequency bands’. Think of spectrum as an ‘open range’ with lots of different use/benefits. (via @wa8dzp)
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Cognitive radio is the Holy Grail. My QuadFi is the Holy Hand Grenade - it blows things up within the current model. (via @kwerb)
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Using a great app like @tweetie really helps to discover conversations when you read an interesting reply tweet. #fixreplies
New York City’s Emergency Text Alerts In the... →
NYC using txt messages to keep employees and citizens informed and safe.
Elsevier Had A Whole Division Publishing Fake... →
Seems like even more reason we need to make sure that government granted research is freely available to the public—to keep these shenanigans from happening. Amazing that a drug company would get…
Fotomoto - Sell your photos on your own website:... →
Online service that helps photographers sell photos.
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I’m braindead and didn’t realize the new fashion copyright bill was introduced in the House http://bit.ly/qrOPx #fashion_c Such a bad idea!
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neat idea: Verizon/Novatel MiFi Personal Hot Spot + Eye-Fi SD card makes instant broadband uploads of photos from the field (via @arasmus)
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Surprising: Verizon signs resale deal for FIOS fiber network. http://bit.ly/IyEWS (via @kwerb)