Posts Tagged: Web, Blogging and Computers
Thankfully, An End Of Something
Posted by on Thursday, June 21, 2007 in - 11 comments
A bit quietly, something ended the other day when Lessig packed it in, leaving the unproblem of intellectual property and digital media behind. Having beaten the drum and been a leader of the idea that copyright should not apply to expressions, much to the disgust of the creators of ideas who own …
Friday Bullet Chatarama For Mid-June
Posted by on Friday, June 15, 2007 in - 11 comments
I think that the middle of June is the best time of the year, the world so green, the sports of winter finally dead. • Update: James Bow has confirmed Andrew Anderson has packed in one of Canada's most popular blogs, Bound by Gravity. I know this is so last Tuesday but I checked in only to see …
Talking About The Weather
Posted by on Monday, June 4, 2007 in - 2 comments
Remember when talking about the weather was a euphemism for something between being intensely dull to sensibly steering clear of controversial topics? Intersting story in the NYT this morning about the US channel the Weather Network and how the dullest station on the TV is now coping with …
Friday Bullets Chatarama For A New June
Posted by on Friday, June 1, 2007 in - 18 comments
That was a good May. Good old May 2007. Caught two baseball games, worked only a couple of days in a ten day stretch and the seeds have come up. Plus the Tories in PEI got the boot which has made everyone happy. Now just wait for the fiscal review and next budget when we all find out what Pat …
Why Facebook Is Good
Posted by on Thursday, May 31, 2007 in - 5 comments
There is a Chiz fan group. Go share your inner Chiz groupie thoughts.
Internet Law We Can All Agree With
Posted by on Thursday, May 31, 2007 in - 3 comments
There are few things people agree upon as much as the benefits of jailing spammers and it looks like the law caught a biggie: • “A man nicknamed the "spam king" for allegedly sending out millions of junk e-mails has been arrested in the US. Robert Soloway, 27, was arrested in Seattle, Washington …
Is China Monitoring Dullards?
Posted by on Thursday, May 24, 2007 in - 4 comments
Maybe it is just a state plan to keep an eye on the yakky dullards amongst the citizenry: • “New rules by a Chinese government-backed Internet group maintain strict controls over the country's bloggers, requiring them to register with their real names and identification cards. The guidelines …
Facebook Thoughts
Posted by on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 in - 9 comments
Now that I am obsessed with Facebook and expect the feeling to continue for the next sixteen days or so, it gets hard to actually read news and, you know, blog. Blogs have readers and hits but I have friends at Facebook - including that guy who insists we took a course together in New Jersey last …
Standard Form A-137: Bulletted Chat (Friday)
Posted by on Friday, May 18, 2007 in - 18 comments
In this edition, I review what I did this week and find it lacking. After being confused and disappointed by Twitter, I was simultaneously invited to Facebook by men in Alberta and Norway and I took the bait. Now I have 18 friends. I wonder whether I really had friends at all before that point …
Group Project: What Would You Do?
Posted by on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 in - 33 comments
Being not a small person since I was little and perhaps having the look of someone whose soccer training might be transferrable to headbutting in a pinch, I have not had the need to deal with a moment like this since the horror that was the junior high locker room: • “Before I had a chance to …
