Today’s been just as bad. Not much time for blogging, I’ve got 7 work days left before I head out to Gnomedex, and my vacation afterwards, with one of those being a Microsoft Small Business Solutions Event day. That leaves me 6 days to get all of the work for the rest of this month…
Here’s why the copyright police are dangerous, not because they want to protect copyright, but because they want to protect copyright above any other right. So you wind up with situations like this. An innocent home movie of someone’s cats get’s red-flagged and deleted by a hosting company because they think it might be copyrighted…
Doc is pointing to a NewsWeek piece on Internet Radio. Steven Levy is declaring Oct. 20 the day internet radio will die. (That’s the day the “retroactive payments” come due, and the day most webcasters will simply cease to exist because they can’t afford the payments.) EBay to purchase PayPal. -I’m not sure what to…
Yeah it’s Friday, and based on the amount of traffic downtown this morning, I’m guessing we’re one of the few places actually working today. Sigh. Taking a look around this morning: Scoble’s got some interesting insight about Microsoft’s decisions, unfortunately his permalinks seem to be having issues, so read the stuff from July 4 for…
Microsoft releases a second patch for IM and a work-around for the gopher vulnerability. -the first patch didn’t work the way it was supposed to. 🙂 Update: late Weds. afternoon they released four more fixes. An excellent interview with Stan Liebowitz about file sharing, piracy and DRM. He’s seeing what I’m seeing, there’s been no…
But I didn’t think it would happen this soon! Jonas dropped me an email early this morning asking why I didn’t cover Feedreader in the latest article. For the record, I did cover Feedreader in one of the followups to Part 1. It crashed repeatedly when I tried to run it and try it out,…