My friend Gareth Skarka recently wrote about why he won’t go see the forthcoming movie The Avengers, despite being a big, old-school superhero comics geek. He makes what is, for me, a very compelling argument. Both major comics companies, Marvel and DC, have treated so many artists and writers as cogs in the machine (at [...]
Linden Lab is releasing the source code for Second Life under the GNU GPL. Shunning modesty, they equate this with the release of Mosaic and the growth of the World Wide Web. A lot of the Second Life development work currently in progress is focused on building the Second Life Grid — a vision of [...]
My jaw is on the floor. I missed this point, so I’m very thankful that Jessamyn West has pointed out one incredibly great thing about Casey Bisson’s WPopac. Catalog records distributed freely under a CC or GNU license? Jumpin’ Jupiter! That’s monumental! That’s heroic! That’s…about damn time!
I’ve only just gotten up and had my first cup o’ joe, and I’m already cranky. It seems that O’Reilly‘s lawyers sent a Cease-&-Desist to a not-for-profit tech group in Ireland for using “Web 2.0″ in a conference name. I would’ve told IT@Cork to take a page from James Joyce and tell O’Reilly to “K.M.R.I.A.” [...]
HBO wants its programming to never, ever be copied–not on your Tivo, not on your VCR, not on your PC. Well, HBO, I’m here to give you a simple solution to the problem of viewers copying what you broadcast. Are you ready? Okay, here it is: STOP BROADCASTING! But if you want to keep broadcasting, [...]
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