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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Doc's (very short) list 
Do you have a commercial blog?
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| | If your blog has advertising, does it not have commercial purposes? Arianna's lawyers give re-sale as a example of a commercial purpose. Is advertising another example? Just wondering. |
| | Also seems clear that credit to original authors, if not linkage, is also requried by this agreement. (Which really isn't an agreement, because almost nobody even knows it exists). |
| | Another question: Would it occur to you, even if you're a lawyer, to put a SERVICE USER AGREEMENT on your blog? |
| | A while back, Larry Lessig advised me (among other bloggers with public domain dedications on their blogs) to choose another license. I forget the exact reason, but it was roughly because the current copyright environment is insane. |
Woops
| | The three posts below I put in yesterday by mistake. Just moved them to today . Sorry about that. |
Hot talk
| | The deregulation of radio was tough on good-neighbor radio because Clear Channel and other conglomerates were anxious to vacuum up every station in sight for fabulous sums of cash and turn them into robot repeaters. I dropped in to a broadcasting school last fall and saw kids being trained for radio careers as if radio were a branch of computer processing. They had no conception of the possibility of talking into a microphone to an audience that wants to hear what you have to say. I tried to suggest what a cheat this was, but the instructor was standing next to me. Clear Channel's brand of robotics is not the future of broadcasting. With a whole generation turning to iPod and another generation discovering satellite radio and Internet radio, the robotic formatted-music station looks like a very marginal operation indeed. Training kids to do that is like teaching typewriter repair. |
| | After the iPod takes half the radio audience and satellite radio subtracts half of the remainder and Internet radio gets a third of the rest and Clear Channel has to start cutting its losses and selling off frequencies, good-neighbor radio will come back. People do enjoy being spoken to by other people who are alive and who live within a few miles of you. |
| | By the way, I also wonder if commercial blogs can legally quote from THP. See 4. (a) of its terms. IANAL, etc., but it looks to me like the answer is no. [Note: rather than subtract this paragraph from this post, I enlarged the topic with another whole post above.] |
Ease of destruction
| | JohnRM: I must be able to get paid for my break-it ability. |
Linerblogger
| | Larry wrote M*A*S*H and many other funny things. His whole blog post is a pile of fine one-liners. e.g. Being born again doesn't mean you get it right the second time. |
Why-fi
| | Interesting to see the providers of culture and governance gradually understand that public broadband is like public plumbing, and that charging for wi-fi is like putting pay toilets in the park. |
Cultural orientation
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