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Tuesday, December 17, 2002
Let's hope they're not dumb enough to use it. 
DMCA blog?
| | Vincent Outlaw is looking for a DMCA weblog. I'm sure there must be one, especially since somebody overheard (overread?) me blogging about it. |
| | Closest I can think of would be Aaron Swartz' Google Weblog, which deals with the issue from time to time. But I'm sure there's some obsessive out there who's on the case, full-blog. |
| | Vincent will be jazzing it up this Friday on WSDS/88.3 in San Diego (still not Webcasting, post-CARP). |
| | Getting San Diego stations here in Santa Barbara is largely a matter of atmospherics. When it's clear, the stations pound through like locals. When it's rainy, as it's been lately, they're gone. So I'll be trying... |
Take a Barth
| | "We reject the false doctrine that the church could have permission to hand over the form of its message and of its order to whatever it itself might wish or to the vicissitudes of the prevailing ideological and political convictions of the day." |
| | You like your freedom, and are pretty stubborn against authority! You don't care much for other people's opinions either. You can come up with your own fun, and often enough you have too much fun. You are pretty popular because you let people have their way, even when you have things figured out better than them. |
| | Sounds like everybody I know. |
| | Hmm... Wonder if Barth got an F in church history like I did... |
A win for the good guys
| | More here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here ...http://ksds-fm.org/newjazzthing/ |
| | On this case the bloggers genrally seem to be ahead of the mainstream news sources Google observes. |
Happy end-to-endings
| | Dig the latest from Michael Taht. It's a moving story — in once sense literally, since one player in the story is Uncle Bill's Helicopter: the Sikorsky RH-53D Sea Stallion. Also Uncle Bill's grandson Josh Taht. It's close to home for me. I don't have an uncle like Michael's (though mine have all been terrific on other grounds); but I do have a Josh. This post is for him, too. |
I'm gonna miss the analog stuff
The Debate, cont'd...
| | A point about ownership. As Craig has pointed out a number of times, ownership isn't as clear as we might think it is. For example, Linux — that free (as in both beer and speech) software— is owned in a very real way by Linus Torvalds. (For more practical disagreement, look at Craigs Six Theses at the bottom of the link above.) |
| | The NEA characteristics of the Net — Nobody owns it, Everybody can use it and Anybody can improve it — are not hard rules, but rather ways to understand something deep and fundamental that the Net is about, something wrongly or insufficiently described in real-world terms. For example, the Net is a public thing, yet it doesn't behave like property in the physical world. Any lawyer will be glad to tell you that there is no such thing as ownerless public property. You can't turn your watch over to the public domain. It's yours until it's stolen, sold or given away. Public property belongs to the state. Maybe the Net is more like the stuff nobody can claim to own, like outer space or the open seas. There are parallels. Piracy is easier on the high seas than in any downtown. |
| | Property is a head trip: a deeply fundamental notion that we carry around in the physical world. And a political one, too. One whole political wing very much values the whole notion of property. So does business in general. |
| | What's more, whole hunks of the Net in a very real way are owned. All the electronics though which these words pass from me to you are owned by somebody. Yet that ownership chain is not the Net. The transcendance of the Net over all the owned stuff that might describe it is one of the Net's fundamantal characteristics (and what the N point, above, is about). But we can't just marvel at the loveliness of that irony, which I think is one of Eric's points. |
Holidaze
| | I'm basically on vacation right now, and catching up with year-end mundanities in the midst of prepping for Xmas. Which means light blogging at best. |
Regretorizing
| | Dave didn't make it to the Creative Commons event last night: Lots of accidents on the road, chalk it up to a weather outage. I hope the launch was great. Sorry I wasn't there! In my case, glad I didn't try. Given all the accidents in the 400 miles between here and there, it's doubtful I would have made it in time, anyway. |
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