Wednesday, August 25, 2004
JibJab beats copyright rap | CNET News.com: “Attorneys for JibJab also said they have found evidence that the copyright on Guthrie’s song expired in 1973, meaning that anyone can use it for free.”
If the song’s copyright expired in 1973, then Ludlow’s renewal filed in 1984 is eleven years too late. The song did not follow [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
I can’t help myself. I feel compelled to hit that “Publish Post” button, as soon as I can. All those words I spent trying to denigrate the web blog was really a charade, you see. I knew that I’d be a compulsive blogger. The symptoms include an unwillingness to peruse each [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Most of us who write and read Writing on Your Palm are incorrigable gadget fiends. Web vendors are our singles bars; at the least, in a bar one has dim lighting, clothing a size too small, and alcohol to cloud the mind. The gadget fiend has no such excuses. Hard specs list the foibles and [...]
Blogs and blogging: advantages and disadvantages: “Isn�t it interesting that some of the most significant �revolutions� of the last twenty years have all had to do with writing? How retro is that? First we had email, then webpages, then mobile phone texting, and now blogs. All this reflects a trend whereby the world is becoming [...]
In the I’m not making this up department, Shanghai Ebola Trading Co. Ltd has a new IR-based keyboard for PalmOS. I can only assume contamination is optional.
Here’s hoping that PalmOS’s seeming decline is only a flesh wound.
Brighthand reports today that Samsung has confirmed the release of the SPH-i550 smartphone. Yes…finally an OS5 phone to compete with the Treo 600. (I know of no others…correct me if I’m wrong). The phone takes a standard flip phone format with no [...]
After 38 Years, Valenti Prepares to Move On (washingtonpost.com): “Jack Valenti took a break from cleaning out his office the other day to expound on a subject he knows well: the art of persuasion. Over minestrone soup and hummus at his usual table at the restaurant in the Hay Adams Hotel, Valenti, the 82-year-old dean [...]
Judge Richard Posner is taking over a guest run on Lessig’s Blog, and starts off with a teaser: “Larry Lessig from time to time flagellates himself about losing the Eldred case in the Supreme Court. He shouldn�t; it was unwinnable for a host of reason (the lopsided vote–7-2–is a clue). Yes, Congress can confer copyrights [...]
A library in a Seattle mall. I think this is a wonderful step in giving libraries a presence in the community. This isn’t pandering nor should it be viewed as a desperate move. What is important is that, by building a presence at the periphery, it becomes an advertisement for tax dollars [...]
Saturday, August 21, 2004
CNN has a story on the International Olympic Committee banning athletes from posting photos and diaries for various blogging or even news outfits. The rationale is that since the athletes are not journalists, they should not be writing, and oh, the broadcast rights holders come first. Such a story can only inspire a dystopic short [...]