Do we really need another reason to hate Rogers? Jack Kapica got a bill for the first half of his trip to Rio, where he was charged for 5,151 kb of data transfer. Guess how much? No, no, guess again. This is Rogers, it needs to be insanely higher than […]
Yearly archives: 2008
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I’ve been eager to transition my music library from the proprietary patent-ridden MP3 format to Ogg Vorbis, and since my iPod died a few months back, I’ve decided to make the move. I’ve read up on Ogg Vorbis and learned that it’s best to re-rip my CDs, since converting from […]
Big news [Facebook] for Dispatch fans! Pete Francis and Braddigan are two of the three members of this legendary independent band. I flew to Boston to see their farewell concert (along 110,000 people from 20 countries) and to New York to attend one of the three sold out nights at […]
What good thing could come of an intellectually dishonest smear campaign against Lawrence Lessig? Mike Masnick absolutely ripping it to shreds. As a general comment, these defenders of “intellectual property” don’t seem to understand that granting artificial monopolies involves more government intervention, not less. Free culture is not communism. Also, […]
I encountered Catholics Come Home through a video posted on YouTube last week via AmP. Upon returning to YouTube to watch the video again, I noticed that it has been removed due to a copyright claim by Catholics Come Home Inc. The video was originally here. What is wrong with […]
The New York Times has an interesting article on the tension between sports leagues and media organizations, an issue that Techdirt has been covering for a while. The Times article begins by focusing on blogging and amateur journalism, but then tries to get to the core problem: At the heart […]
Facebook launched two cool new features today: an import feature for the mini-feed and Facebook Lexicon The import feature for the mini-feed is very cool. Basically, if you have an account with another supported web service, updates from those services can be included in your mini-feed by simply specifying your […]
The New York Times used to be an example of what not to do online, but they really cleaned up their act last year. Aside from dropping the pay-wall and diving head first into the open source community, they launched a ton of great blogs. With Pope Benedict XVI’s visit […]
University of Florida professor Michael Moulton is a great example of abuse which comes from treating ideas like property. He and his publisher are arguing that taking notes in his lectures is an infringement of copyright. This is worth repeating: he and his publisher are arguing that taking notes in […]