Last week, Google NewsBlog announced:
Starting this week, we’ll be displaying reader comments on stories in Google News, but with a bit of a twist… We’ll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question. Our long-term vision [...]
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IP Democracy blogger proposes reading comprehension, citizenry and lie-detector tests before allowing commenters to respond
Posted in Internet, Journalism on August 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Built With is built with fun!
Posted in Internet, Media, New Media, Pop Culture, Technology on August 14, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’ve decided that I’m taking a hiatus from libertarian posts. How often can I post that I’m against banning things and for individual rights? Don’t answer that. I’ll probably post something that irks me the wrong way soon.
So, anyway I like new techie things. Here’s a fun link to play with via my old friend [...]
One emotionally disturbed woman v. A Gaggle of Violent Misogynist Loons: the Internet at its finest
Posted in Bloggers, Conservative Craziness, Feminism, Internet, Misogyny on August 10, 2007 | 27 Comments »
Ugh. In the grand scheme of intense angry blog fights that seem omnipresent in certain circles and make it damn hard to forget that it’s only about .000005 percent of the US population who has any indication that this is going on, — we’ve got quite a doozy on our hands.
Here is the summary, [...]
libertarians: manliest of all blog readers
Posted in Bloggers, Democrats, Internet, Libertarians, Republicans on July 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
According to Mother Jones open-source politics issue, the median political blog reader is a 43-year-old man with a household income of $80,000 and 75 percent of political blog readers are male.
Seventy-five percent of the total political blogosphere audience is male? Because a good portion of the blogs I frequent are feminist blogs written by [...]
socioeconomic status evident by how many flash graphics you have on your Myspace page
Posted in Blogging Bandwagon, Facebook, Internet, Kids These Days, Technology on July 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This has already been everywhere, but oh well. There are just so many interesting things about danah boyd’s social-neworking/class analysis I don’t know where to start. A few weeks ago I mused that “Myspace will remain as the go-to site for musicians, aspiring porn stars and people looking to hook-up with strangers; Facebook for college [...]
open-source politics
Posted in Internet, Journalism, Technology on July 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mother Jones July/August issue is all about “open-source” politics. Haven’t read through much of it yet, but it looks like there’s some interesting stuff,
the berenstein bears and too much networking
Posted in Branding, Internet, Kids These Days, Technology on June 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Looking for even more ways to avoid interaaction with the real world? Ning is a “meta-networking” site that allows users to create their own social networks for whatever they want to. On the front page of the site right now (I’m assuming it changes daily) are networks for something called the Brooklyn Art Project, the [...]
tag clouds …
Posted in Bloggers, Internet on June 21, 2007 | 3 Comments »
… the mullet of the Internet?
a dog is a lawyer is a flirtatious computer programmer
Posted in Digi-stalking, Internet, Privacy on June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I know our collective conceptions about what lawyers do has been seriously warped by TV shows (try watching Law & Order or Boston Legal with a real lawyer; about the 87th time they point out, “That couldn’t really happen..” you may want to beat them while screaming “Shut up, shut up,, you are ruining the [...]
when you just can’t be bothered to put the proper effort into web stalking …
Posted in Digi-stalking, Internet on June 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Do you think this young man realizes how truly creepy this quote sounds?
A lot of people spend hours browsing sites to stalk friends, ex-girlfriends and love interests online “but there isn’t a streamlined process that’s, like, one shot, boom,” said the now 19-year-old freshman at University of California, Berkeley.
Or, hell, maybe it doesn’t sound [...]
wanna be friends with my cat?
Posted in Facebook, IS2K7, Internet, Technology on June 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
My best friend is a crazy cat lady. She also refuses to join facebook, despite my best prodding. I was joking the other day that maybe if I created a profile for my cat, she would at least join up to create one for hers. Ha! Turns out, this is now entirely feasible, with new [...]
open access in academia
Posted in Copyright, Education, Free Culture, IS2K7, Internet on June 1, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Another thing we discussed yesterday in one of the afternoon sessions of the Internet & Society conference was academic journal articles. There are some people here (including the aforementioned free culture kids) who think that academic journal articles should be made readily and openly available in digitized form, because knowledge should be free and available [...]
audible magic & free culture ire
Posted in Copyright, Education, Fair Use, Free Culture, IS2K7, Internet on June 1, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I don’t know about these free culture kids.
For the afternoon session of the IS27K conference yesterday, we broke off into discussion groups based on professional sectors. I was with the students, obviously. There were 8 of us, all part of the “free culture” movement except for me. We started off discussing a software program [...]
potato, potahto: I say homobigotry, you say quality control
Posted in Advertising, Homobigotry, Internet, Stupid Media Frenzy... on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t understand this kerfluffle over these ads. The ads, for online-dating-service startup Chemistry.com, feature a gaggle of attractive young people who were allegedly rejected from another online dating site, eHarmony.com. eHarmony is all riled up and asking media outlets to stop running the ads, which they feel make the site appear discriminatory and racist. [...]
Woman gives birth to alligator baby! Media and public discourse today WORSE THAN EVER!
Posted in Internet, Media on May 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“It is simply no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse,” writes Al Gore in his forthcoming book, The Assault on Reason, excerpted in Time this week. The central tenet of the except is “Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now [...]
Man, IP law is complicated … wait, I know! Let’s just wiretap more people!
Posted in Copyright, Internet on May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today proposed a new bill which would toughen criminal sanctions for intellectual property law violations, including making “attempted” copyright infringement a crime. Right, because prosecuting actual infringement on the Internet is so easy these days, and totally not up for debate. Prosecuting attempted infringement is obviously feasible and logical.
The Intellectual [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A.I at home and I’m not talking Haley Joel Osmond as a robot.
Posted in Gaming, Internet, Pop Culture on April 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was looking for “Facade” when “The Restaurant” popped up on searching through Google. I’m really interested in AI technology in gaming. It’s vastly improving and any chance to really understand the communication behind making technology more real brings out the geek in me.
This project attempts to address two frustrations I experienced as a [...]
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