You might say I am “soft” on protection of copyright.
It’s not exactly one of my 10 commandments.
It is this kind of story which makes me so unsympathetic to the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and the Music Publishers’ Association (MPA) of America.
I dig Digg.
Digg.com is now the 24th-most popular Web site in the U.S., nipping at the The New York Times’ (No. 19) and easily beating Fox News (No. 62) …
Digg.com is the #1 new news site right now. Compare it with (copycat) Netscape.com.
This magazine cover is a laughing stock on the internet, though. The number is almost a complete fabrication.
Rocco loves the scene in one of the Star Trek movies where Scottie picks up a mouse — and tries to use it as a microphone to speak to the computer.
In what year will you give up your mouse? 2010?
Jeff Han is a research scientist at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and is inventor of an “interface-free” touch-driven computer screen. This is the future.
Click PLAY on the video below or watch the clip on YouTube.
(Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA. Duration: 09:32)
Han was speaking at the TED (Technology, Education, Design) conference. This must be one of the most exclusive in the world — it costs $4,400 to attend and is invitation-only.
Works for Me: Nincompoops: saviors of journalism – CNET reviews
Why egocentric hacks like me are the saviours of traditional journalism.
The massive competition from the entire community of Web users is making MSM, including CNET, better. It has to be to remain relevant. Television news shows can’t get away with faking results. Newspapers can’t tolerate bad reporters. Irresponsible journalism gets called out these days and doesn’t survive. And that’s good.
It seems the traditional American media near ignored the astonishing lack of understanding of Ted Stevens, chairman of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
Gladly, we have one “journalist” putting this dinosaur’s feet to the fire.
I say again, the USA is in trouble because of their legislative process. Perhaps they should try democracy and free market economics.
The TWITs weigh in on their podcast.
UPDATE – looks like Google might finally be doing something about this problem:
If you had a photography question you might be tempted to type in the URL “photography.com”.
Hey — not a bad looking website. This might be exactly what you are looking for.
Turns out photography.com has no content at all. It is a disguised collection of ad links.
I need a browser which blocks advertising sites like this as it blocks popup ads.
If you are bored with the whole confusing issue, you may get fired-up by this opinion piece by Molly Wood.
The Buzz Report: Net neutrality: bring it on – CNET.com
The war for trillions of our dollars is getting ugly.
My warning bells really started dinging when I saw the unbelievably manipulative, disingenuous Don’tRegulate.org and HandsOff.org. These sites are, for lack of a better description, fake grassroots Web sites that are actually funded by AT&T, Cingular, Alcatel, and then a motley collection of conservative think tanks or fellow “grassroots” organizations such as NetCompetition.org, which is in turn funded almost exclusively by telcos and cable companies.
The telecommunication and cable companies are still the “bad guys”. For now. By owning the last mile of service to your door, they have a lot of leverage.
Hopefully I can one day sign on with a satellite provider to get away from them. Or move to a country that legislates Net Neutrality.
In the late ’90s I scheduled one evening a week to browse magazines at the library.
A few years later I stopped as magazine content seemed old — I had seen some of the stories on the internet. Google News, in particular, ruined magazines for me.
In 2006 I rely much less on Google News as most stories of interest I see a day or two earlier on one blog or another, delivered to me by my RSS feed reader. Google News should integrate quality blogs.
Finally I’m interested in Netscape, but not as a slow browser. Not as a portal cluttered with things I’m not interested in seeing.
Netscape is being reinvented as an interactive news site. The Beta page looks pretty cool.
Future Home Page » Netscape.com
I have been using a similar site NewsVine, but Netscape is cleaner.
This was all started by SlashDot and Digg.
Digg is about to expand to compete with Newsvine and Netscape — but I suspect Netscape will soon be the go to site for interactive news.
When will the New York Times move into this market? Unlike other dinosaur newspapers, they’ve done well on the internet.
This guy is getting a lot of grief over his Google-bashing:
25 Things I Hate About Google – Danny Sullivan, Mar. 13, 2006
But I think he has some good points. Google is pretty messy right now. They need to streamline things.
Rick McCharles 