Archive for the 'Intellectual Property' Category

Dave goes off the rails

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Dave Winer:
This press release is the first I heard that the EFF (apparently) would like to speak for podcasters. Watch out for the EFF, they tend to sell us out for the tech industry, an industry that has major conflicts with people and organizations that create content. When asked to help us out with Google […]

Support the Commons!

Monday, October 31st, 2005

When Lawrence Lessig pleads, I’m prone to listen (and to plead as well).
Please …

My email to 1and1 regarding bittorrent

Monday, June 6th, 2005

The contents of my email to my hosting company regarding their misguided bittorrent policy:
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I read today that 1and1 is implementing a support policy regarding bittorrent files, and further that this policy is misguided.
This is unfortunate and must be reconsidered. The bittorrent technology is capable of vast and important non-infringing uses. I use it […]

Newsmashing - The new technique that will change blogging forever. By Paul Boutin

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

Newsmashing - The new technique that will change blogging forever. By Paul Boutin
“Instead of iMarkup’s plug-in format, newsmashing applications should use standard HTML.”
I’ll go you one better than that, Paul. I think that these applications should use an xml format to denote the markups to a given web-page. The information passed from one […]