BurningbirdMovable Type is coming out with a new minor version release, 2.6. Among the new items is some improved support for text formatting that I’m really looking forward to. The Trotts have also opened up database support, and enhanced comments — all excellent additions. Another change that’s going to generate some interesting talk here and there is […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have branded myself outsider, if not outcast, in some weblogging circles by not embracing Creative Commons without hesitation, and not being 100% behind the anti-copyright/pro-public domain movement. (For what it’s worth, I am behind Imaginative Pastures.) Scott Andrew LePera wrote an excellent posting saying very nice things about my Mockingbird’s Wish. His post also […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. UpdateOf course, I realize that I’m probably a-l-l-l-l-l-l-l alone in the viewpoint I’m expressing in this post. Which is a true measure of freedom to speak — when you can speak amidst your peers and not get stoned. (Damn, did I just get hit by a falling link?) And no, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote and subsequently pulled a posting yesterday, about the Eldred vs. Ashcroft decision. I pulled the post because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to deal with the consequences of my writing. I knew that I was not following the ‘popular’ weblogging path in my post. However, I believe in what […]
Update: Larry Stanton in my comments referred to posts by Jack Balkin about the First Amendment clause issue of Eldred vs. Ashcroft. This gentlemen is a constitutional lawyer specializing in first amendment law, and his posts on this issue, here, here, and here are rich reading — clear explanations from an expert’s viewpoint. As I said earlier, I know that […]