Grokster

I’ve been busy and haven’t been able to sit down to and post this in the last few days. I think a lot of the analysis of the Supreme Court decision in the Grokster case is highly flawed (as is the decision itself, I think.) For example, Jack Valenti on the episode of Radio Open [...]

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Mike Dunn in the Style Council

Mike Dunn in the Style Council

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Longtime show supporter and benefactor of the Flickr account Mike Dunn is now in the Style Council. All hail Mike. Note the clever shot setup so that the front and back logos are both visble.

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Rights

Maybe it is just me, but I think the juxtaposition of two recent Supreme Court decisions is highly disturbing. The intellectual property rights of corporations are so important that any technology that could conceivably impinge on them should be suppressed - literally or by forcing inventors to lawyer up before they even know what to [...]

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iTunes Podcasting

At least from my perspective, the iTunes rollout of podcasting support was completely bungled. Like I reported earlier, they seemed to have my Bittorrent feed in their catalog without having Bittorrent support in the client. That is exactly how they rolled it out, in non-working fashion. People can subscribe to my feed via the directory, [...]

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Clambake Episode for June 26, 2005

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for June 26, 2005.
I play the newest interview bit with John Mark King where he talks about his own notions of open culture and play the newest Rocket City Riot song; I talk more about open and closed culture; I talk briefly [...]

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Tee Morris in the Style Council

Tee Morris in the Style Council

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Effecting what he refers to as the “over the shoulder Dr. Evil pose” is Tee Morris, the newest inductee into the EGC style council. Welcome, Tee! This photo was taken at Balticon 39.

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My Listening Breakdown

I’ve grown weary of the way pundits talk about podcasting. This is a situation much like the parable of the blind men and the elephant, where some assert that it is like a rope while others assert it is like a tree trunk and so on - all being completely certain they are correct. The [...]

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Douglas Adams on Electronic Distribution

Correspondent James sent me this link to the short series (4 episodes) by the late Douglas Adams called Hitchhikers Guide to the Future. It covers similar stuff to what we are on about, electronic distribution of books and music and culture. James tells me that it covers similar ground to my recent talk about split [...]

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The Arts and Sciences and Slushers

The Arts and Sciences and Slushers

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Here’s a photo to give a feel for what the trip to Greensboro was like. It was fantastic to get to spend a little time with the band, to see them play (which completely rocked) and to [...]

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Out on a School Night

Tonight we’ll be driving up to Greensboro NC to see The Arts and Sciences open for Indigo Girls. It should be fun, and the plan is for us to be able to hang out with Paul and Lee and the band at the merchandise table, if not backstage. Cool, no? Now if we just had [...]

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Movie Roundup

Here’s some bullet reviews of movies I’ve seen recently. Only one was in the theater, the rest were rentals.

Meet the Fockers: Bleh. I wish I had slept through it.
Spanglish: Fantastic film with a warm human story.
Ocean’s Twelve: Loved the first one (rare remake far superior to the original), thought this sequel was a waste [...]

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Follow the Money

Several people have already dissected this David Coursey anti-podcasting article. Mike Dunn, for example, really ripped a new one on it and Coursey (citing me and the term “knee jerk off” in the process). Check out the anti-populist condescending sentiment in this:
Personal Podcasting, like personal blogs, is a fad and will fade. Just like personal [...]

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Clambake Episode for June 21, 2005

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for June 21, 2005.
It’s mostly a show assembled from pieces as I play the newest interview bit with John Mark King and play the newest Rocket City Riot song; I play some audio feedback from Bill Riski and Eddie Dickey; I talk [...]

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Email Issues Under Control

For all intents and purposes, the email issues are licked. I have 15 in my inbox, few enough that I can see them all without scrolling. I’m caught up. No one needs to be apologetic about emailing me the way a lot of podcast listeners seem to be. The issues are solved, and I aim [...]

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Victor on Cyveillance

Victor from Four Stones is reporting that Cyveillance tried to crack into his server. This company is allegedly employed by the RIAA amongst other organizations to outsource their skullduggery. I don’t know the ins and outs of what they were doing, but I’ve had the Cyveillance IP range blocked from my webserver for years. [...]

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Batman Begins

Yesterday we went to see Batman Begins. I believe this is not only the best Batman movie ever, but after I let it sink in a while I think I’ll find it the best superhero movie ever. It had all of the spectacle, but also lots of story and characterization and a tighter origin story [...]

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Clambake Episode for June 18, 2005

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for June 18, 2005.
It’s a long show with a lot of buildup of topics since the last episode. I talk about the (temporary) cessation of iPodderX as a sponsor; I talk more about life in Conway, South Carolina; I play a song [...]

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Katz Responds

Don Katz of Audible.com has a post that responds to some of the criticisms of the Audible/podcasting thing. This includes a namecheck of me, for god’s sake!
For the record, I’ve had multiple exchanges with Mitch Ratcliffe about his response to me, in the comments here, in the comments there and in email. I still [...]

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Suggested Listening

Here’s some things I have listened to lately that I really liked:
Actually I’m still listening to this one and am really liking it - Chuck Tomasi has an interview with Leo Laporte.
My brother has a podcast and he’s done a great variety of stuff. For some reason, the show that has tickled me the most [...]

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Robot Abuse

What the hell happened to netiquette in the creation of web crawling robots? I seem to remember 30 seconds being the absolute minimum interval between requests to the same domain for a well-behaved robot, and several minutes being even better. Jesus, the crawler I wrote for a project in grad school in 1996 had a [...]

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