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Saturday, August 24, 2002
Whenever, more or less 
Babe. That's so fucked.
| | I just heard that HBO cancelled Dennis Miller. This makes no sense at all. The best thing I shouldn't have watched on the tube last night was Dennis Miller. |
Journocracy at work
| | Cone vs. Coble. Bet on Cone. Why? Because he's right and Coble is a Hollywood tool. |
If you don't want to be Mickey's puppet, keep his hand out of your ass
| | Don't let the media giants use your fine name and reputation to do their dirty work. History will not be kind to the FCC that ignored the obvious, in favor of an obsolete, corrupt oligopoly that dictated to both the FCC and the Congress. |
All that and he's a star, too
| | Leo Laporte is on stage now, giving the closing keynote. He's such a good, smart, genuine guy, exceptionally knowledgeable yet completely modest. And very funny. I've enjoyed hanging around him these past couple days. |
Hi wi-five. Much appreciated.
| | The Proxim guys turned off the thing that cares about the user's MAC addresses, and all is well. Everybody has been up and cooking live all afternoon. |
Wil's way
| | "Copyright law is a good idea. It allows actors, writers, and musicians to create and own intellectual property, and hopefully derive a living from their creations. |
| | As an actor and writer, I have a personal stake in making sure that Copyright law is enforced. If I can't own the works I create, then I can't feed my family. |
| | The music labels, publishing houses and studios who release our creative works would have you believe that unless we strengthen copyright laws, their clever euphemism for eroding your rights to parody and free expression, all artists will suffer. |
| | Don't you believe them. As a negotiator for the Screen Actors Guild, I have firsthand experience with these men who claim to care so greatly for artists, and I call shenanigans. The greatest danger to musicians is not Gnutella. It is the label. The greatest danger to actors and film makers is not DeCSS. It is the studio. These corporate masters care little for the artists who are filling their 4 car garages with new Porsches and filling their private jets with fuel and "hostesses." |
| | What they do care about is controlling how you listen to music, or watch movies, and, increasingly, how you discuss and react to our creations. |
| | Copyright law was best described as "a balance between expression that the owners can control and expression that is left open to the commons." |
| | Right now we are facing the complete destruction of that delicate balance. Corporations, and their congressional lap dogs, are doing everything in their power to ensure that the "expression left open to the commons" is forever removed, leaving only "expression the owners can control." |
| | That is a truly terrifying statement, which bears repeating: "expression only the owners can control." |
| | Right fucking on. Glad to repeat it. |
Blog on
| |  Ev is talking blogs up on stage. He's doing a great job. He just came back from Brazil, where apparently blogging is a pretty hot thing. He followed my talk, which ended with a plug for blogging and this whole new form of journalism. While Ev talks to the audience, I'm talking blogs with Chenelle Bremont, whose GirlsGotGame is quite bloglike. Chenelle sat next to me on the plane from Denver on Thursday. |
| | Next to Chenelle in the aisle seat on the plane the was Beth Goza, who's now in the same position right now at our table, listening to Ev. Beth is the person I overheard saying "Doc Searls will be there" on the plane. That's how we met. She works for Microsoft having extreme fun with portable computing thingies. Her husband Phil has this amazing site devoted to all of his apparently countless electronic fetishes — plus other cool stuff, such as caffeine soap. "It's not the paranoia that keeps me awake," he says. "It's the soap." |
Save pubic transportation
An adult's garden of clues
| | Intellectual property law (or whatever we end up calling it, which might be quite different) isn't just being discussed here in the Land 'o Blogs. It's being re-thought out. And it's an amazing thing to watch. We're here at the beginning of something. Look... |
| | Here's Larry Lessig, down from behind the podium and the lectern, asking questions, engaging in public dialog that seems to be moving somewhere. |
| | Here's Alex Golub with what Larry calls a "scathing review" of Larry's in/famous OSCON speech. But rather than the autopsy that most reviews tend to be, Alex's is more of biopsy on a living set of ideas, by a living human being, offering both prescriptive as well as diagnostic ideas. Larry calls it "completely right." |
| | Note the complete absence of that harrumphy editorial style we've been getting in newspapers for two centuries. Also of the back-and-forth yelling we get from Crossfire and its clones on the cable news channels. |
| | That shits over. Yes, it'll still be around for another decade or two, but the undermining has begun. People are informing themselves and each other. They aren't just consuming other people's final opinions. |
| | This is unlike anything we've seen in journalism before. And there's no going back. The big periodical publishers can't do a damn thing about it. Unlike the Big Five record companies, with the RIAA as their enforcement arm, the publishers' army of "content producers" never got into the business with the intent to become blockbuster stars. They're journalists. Like teachers, they never expected to make a lot of money. Also like teachers, they're in the knowledge-spreading business. As more of them get into the knowledge-growing and knowledge-exchanging business that blogging's all about, the business itself will change completely. |
| | It'll happen in entertainment eventually too. But right now the old star-maker machinery has too much power, and too many of the artists it mills are still too attached to that system and the big-money pay that goes to its most fortunate products. |
| | People tend to be so linear and it's bullshit. Either you're for me or against me. Nope. Sometimes it's "I'm just trying to find out who the fuck you are." |
Maybe I should send money too
| | With his customary humor and style, Tony Pierce is raising money for his own blog. I also just discovered that I'm his top Hit Contest Winner. |
| | Tony pushes Blogger to the creative limit. That's my segue to Ev's talk today at Gnomedex, which follows mine. My topic is Linux, his is weblogs. |
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