I was trying to tell some friends last night about this cartoon, and my explanation began with, “you know those i’m-in-your-whatever-cat-picutres.” which, it turned out, they did not, and the more I tried to explain it, the more I sounded like a loon, so I eventually resorted to trying to find some examples for them.
I [...]
Archive for April, 2007
“a catch-all structure for annotating cat pictures”
Posted in Cat Blogging on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
wanna shut down strip clubs, do you? no bagels for you!!!!
Posted in Nanny State, Ohio on my Mind, Strippers on April 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I can’t believe this is still going on in the Ohio legislature: legislation to require strip clubs to shut down at midnight and customers to remain at least 6 feet from performers at all times.
It’s so ridiculous, because there’s no way it can even be plausibly explained as anything but an attempt to force [...]
Why’s everybody gotta hate on libertarians?
Posted in Libertarians on April 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ilyka’s got this great post at Pandagon about the preponderance of “experts” on the Internet who pop up in the wake of things like the Virginia Tech shootings or the Supreme Court abortion decision recently to tell you that THEY KNOW exactly why things happened or why things are good or bad or etc. [...]
Okay Paris, are you ready for round two?
Posted in Privacy, Technology on April 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Thanks to my friend Gynine for this nice piece of news.
Let’s weigh in on this, is it right or wrong not to tell someone you are filming them? I’m sure we’ll add go privacy this and privacy that. How many of you are going to click and see it though? I won’t tell.
In a [...]
girls and boys in america…
Posted in Feminism, Pop Culture, Snarking on April 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Because of school projects, my printed word diet lately has consisted solely of a strange combination of articles about copyright and 1990s issues of Us and People magazines (and, as a break, Elements of Style by the late great Wendy Wasserstein), but today I finally got around to catching up on some news/blog reading. Things [...]
illegal biking
Posted in DC on April 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Now this is just silly: DC requires people to register their bicycles or face bike impoundment.
Via DCist:
The problem, of course, is that actually managing to register your bicycle to comply with the law is close to impossible. Local police and fire department offices are not regularly equipped to deal with cyclists’ requests to [...]
No more juice, Jose.
Posted in Technology on April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s baseball season (exclamation!). All right boys and girls, are we ready for stories on ‘roids and corked bats? I’m hoping for good-old Yankees better loose baseball season, personally that’s my opinion. But if by chance, you are a Yankees fan or even a steroid fan, put down the needle and go see the eye [...]
apparently, we’re all technology all the time around here lately…
Posted in Internet, Media, UGC on April 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A while ago, when I was looking for participants for a survey on user-generated content, I had a hell of a time finding people who actually upload videos. Well, turns out I’m not just a bad survey promoter: a new study has found that “upload rates at participatory cyberstops like YouTube and Flickr were well [...]
Reformation is here,
Posted in PR, Patents, Technology on April 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
After reading about the 2.6 million patent deal for mobile social networking technology, it got me thinking about why and how you could patent technology. Well, I seem to be semi on par with Congress. This past Wednesday, Congress introduced the Patent Reform Act of 2007.
The Patent Reform Act was introduced Wednesday in the [...]
Generation (fill in the blank)
Posted in Journalism on April 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I told myself I wasn’t going to comment on the events at VT. I didn’t want to add to the growing noise “they should have done this” or ” I would have done that.” I wanted to give this situation space and give some silence to the noise. I guess, I’m just adding it to [...]
How to make 2.6 million dollars? Make a time machine and go back seven years.
Posted in MoSoSo, Patents, Pop Culture, Technology on April 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A big thanks to Twitter for introducing me to Mashable and this latest development.
Mobile Social Networking is the current buzz trend of marketers, business folk, and techies alike. The patent (number 6618593) just sold for 2.6 million.
The patent covers mobile social networking – set to be one of the hottest tech markets this year. [...]
Obsession is two words: The Wire
Posted in Drugs, Pop Culture on April 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I love me some Omar and McNulty. It’s no lie that I love “The Wire.” It’s one of the best shows on television, let alone one of the best shows I have ever seen. I’ll save any kind of synopsis for links. So click here if you’re unfamiliar.
This whole post began out of [...]
links for 2007-04-20
Posted in Media on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Crooks and Liars » Kurt Vonnegut’s life:FOX NEWS Style
Wow, Fox, way to remain fair and balanced. Some excerpts:
“By the late 70s, Vonnegut was rich and irrelevent.”
He “failed at suicide”
Stick around for the ending. You stay classy, Fox.
(tags: Vonnegut foxnews obituary)
It’s a celebrity death match: Virtual Barbie versus Virtual MTV — who will win your avatar?
Posted in Second Life on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I thought MTV pushed the virtual world to the limits with their vapid “The Virtual Laguna Beach” and “The Virtual The Hills.” While I have watched an episode (or the entire season) of The Hills, playing these characters in virtual form is not so high on my list, so imagine my suprise when I read [...]
VA Tech shooter framing …
Posted in Framing, Media on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Via Faux Real, Brownfemipower writes:
And once the private violence becomes public, we hear it on the news, we find out from a friend, we hear it in the car on the way to work, we all distance ourselves again. He was a loner, he was strange, he never talked, he was weird/scary/abnormal/depressed/mad/upset/hurt hurt hurt–he [...]
NBC purge of SNL-YouTube clips
Posted in Copyright, Fair Use, Internet, Pop Culture on April 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »
In order to pass the “fair use” test, a work using copyrighted material must pass muster on several different elements, one of which being whether the work is “transformative” or not. Not that I’m any sort of expert on the meaning of “transformative” — and, as I learned speaking with copyright lawyers extensively the past [...]
Fair Use, Creative Commons, UGC, etc. etc. etc. Part I
Posted in Copyright, Fair Use, Internet, Tech Policy, Technology, UGC on April 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been working with AU’s Center for Social Media on a research project about user-generated content and copyright law, which is neat because I’ve gotten to attend a conference today (and also tomorrow) with IP lawyers and general counsel and the business and communication departments of places like Microsoft and Facebook and the Electronic Frontier [...]
Violins v. iPods
Posted in City Life, Music on April 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I just read this article.The opening graphs:
“HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L’ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. [...]
time capsule, south park edition
Posted in Pop Culture on April 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In doing some research for my thesis, I came across this preview of South Park from a 1997 issue of Time:
The amalgam of clever references never really comes together, and it’s hard to figure out what Parker and Stone are using their show to say beyond the fact that eight-year-old boys are silly and [...]
note: college women not as stupid as Stepp would have you believe
Posted in Framing, Kids These Days, Sex on April 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last Tuesday, I posted about an article in the Washington Post on college students and the HPV vaccine. The article was written by everyone’s favorite kids-these-days (or, really, girls these days) hand-wringer, Laura Sessions Stepp. I started off the post intending to make the point that sometimes I think reporters on teens and young adults [...]
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