BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Internet Radio is at risk due to CARP — the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel. There’s also a new bill being put forward before Congress that would make copying watermarks and holograms illegal. Dallas News is issuing “cease and desist” orders against online sites for deep linking. The Electronic Frontier Foundation — the main watchdog against copyright abuses […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There’s been discussion throughout weblogging about whether people would vote for Bush again or not. Many of the postings I’ve read said that the webloggers would primarily because of his policies regarding Israel, and his “handling of terrorism”. To vote for Bush solely because of terrorism ignores so many other […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In the previous posting, Dave attached a comment that returns us to the conversation about centralization. However, I don’t expect that we’ll generate any definitive answers to “what is centralization”, as the folks who are interested in distributed systems and P2P have been working this issue for years, with only qualified success. […]
I have a confession to make: I’ve not always been a strong voice for standardization. As much as I believe in the necessity of standards, I was so concerned when the Mozilla organization was strongly chastised for spending time on new innovations rather than implementation of standards that I wrote an article, The Tyranny of Standards, about this […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave responded to my earlier post with a thoughtful and considerate posting that asked a very valid question: So anyway, here’s a question for Shelley. When I see your site update on Weblogs.Com, I usually go for a visit to see what the bird is burning about now. I think of that as […]