Awesome posts by Ethan Zuckerman on Burt Rutan and innovation, and by Kathy Sierra on how constraints create innovation.
Music distributors are wising up that iTunes and Zune DRM are a way of protecting Apple and MS’s market share, not protecting artists. Yay. (via the excellent Furdlog)
I’m not sure why exactly it went away, but my first IRC home has passed on. Like Swanno, I’ve found that law school and IRC are pretty much mutually exclusive, so it isn’t exactly a big direct loss out of my life, but I have generally very strong and very positive memories of that channel. [...]
On Friday night I went to NuBlu for the first NYC Creative Commons Salon. It was an interesting little get together. Some random thoughts:
I put up some pictures. Like all my pictures, they are CC-SA, but unfortunately the gallery hack I was using to indicate licensing is busted. Go ahead and enjoy them.
As far as [...]
… I spent most of my meals this weekend reading a ~100 page set of documents on EU competition law (aka antitrust law, for americans.) For an optional seminar.
Perhaps worse, I could hardly read any of it without thinking ‘microsoft probably violates this one, and this one, and….’ I’m pretty sure their behavior with regards [...]
Is there a replacement for the wordpress dashboard (specifically the ‘incoming links’ thing) that doesn’t suck? Fully 1/2 of the links in my ‘incoming links’ list right now are the same blog, all of which are being counted because I’m in the blogroll of that blog, not the posts. Technorati appears to be indexing them [...]
I have occasionally ranted of late about the opportunities for people to do creative things around collaboration. If you’ve listened to the rantings of an insane law student and are thinking about doing that, run, don’t walk, to Steven O’Grady’s latest post, titled ‘So you want to be an office 2.0 provider?‘ Good stuff. And [...]
My former co-worker Ethan has been thinking out loud about the computing needs of a very specialized group of people: users in repressive nations who need to use computers very securely, so that they can’t be tracked by their governments.
Interesting post- as you’ll see in Ethan’s comments, I am pretty sure that someone, with proper [...]
Say the title in a ’50s scifi voice and it gets a lot more interesting.
The future is ‘a battle between two circles in a Venn diagram’, one of which is the ‘Net, and the other Big Content, according to Doc Searls. The cue is Google’s acquisition of YouTube, which Doc thinks is really about expanding [...]
[Originally posted at First Movers. Comments should be made there.]
[Update: !@#@!#@!ing POS WP text editor.]
Disclaimer
Keep in mind that IANAL, and I’m still learning the limits of some of the things I’m talking about, so my legal claims may not be 100% accurate, though I stand behind the moral and legal intuition behind them. Also keep [...]
…someone is having a conference on widgets.
