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Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture
I just read Lawrence Lessig's book Free Culture How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. This book is VERY important, and VERY good. I am not much of a book reviewer, but I do know a great book when I read it. I couldn't stop reading this book; I haven't had time to surf the web, listen to music, blog, podcast, watch TV or anything this past week, but I made time to finish this book once I started reading it. If you've never cared about the public domain, or if you have never given second thought to how our culture is made, PLEASE read this book. If you want a history lesson on the subject of intellectual property rights and the United States Constitution, PLEASE read this book. If you just care about freedom, PLEASE read this book. If creativity or innovation is important to you, PLEASE read this book. Lawrence argues articulately and with passion, citing countless examples, and clearly details, while offering solutions, what is happening to our our culture, our public domain, and our future.
This book is alarming and informative. Read this book, and you will have your eyes appropriately widened to this very important issue.
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Data Mining using Google
Google (and many other search engines) has the ability not only to search on keywords, but also using a more “database-ish” query language to really narrow down your search results. Below is a summary of a few of the most useful lesser known features... Read the Rest
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Take Two and Call Me in the Morning or One Bob's Search for Reliable Internet Service in a Colonial City
From i, cringely: During my five years in the California Wine Country, I struggled to overcome the limitations of rural Internet service. Dial-up was a joke since I never saw more than 26.4 kilobits-per-second. DSL was at first a bad dream since I was 36,000 feet from the telephone company central office. Cable Internet service was possible, but only if I paid the $22,000 it would cost to install the cable (no thanks). Satellite came and went. A long distance WiFi connection served me well for a couple years. Then one day, for no apparent business reason, SBC dropped an optical cable at the end of my driveway, and suddenly, I had a six megabit-per-second DSL pipe. Alas, by then we were already planning our move to South Carolina, where I hoped living in an urban environment would make simple getting a good Internet connection. Nope. Finding good broadband service here in Charleston was just as hard or harder than it was back in Santa Rosa. But now I'm finally satisfied and want to explain what I had to do to make it work....Read More
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Intersting
New P2P Radio station concept site: mercora.com
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RIAA wants your fingerprints
Not content with asking for an arm and a leg from consumers and artists, the music industry now wants your fingerprints, too. The RIAA is hoping that a new breed of music player which requires biometric authentication will put an end to file sharing....Read More at theregister.co.uk
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New Viruses Hit 30-Month High
The number of new viruses released on the Internet in May hit a 2-1/2-year high last month, an anti-virus vendor says....Read More at informationweek.com
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Cool Hack
Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel Tips and Tricks: While a solid camera out of the box, the Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel user experience can be enhanced with a few simple, money-saving tricks. In fact, I roughly estimate that these tips and tricks can save you over $500.....Read More
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LA to Oregon at Mach 9
Here is a pretty cool website: This spring I went to Oregon to help out my family's softball tournament. It's normally a 10 hour drive so I decided to find a faster way. I strapped a rocket to my car and was able to make the trip in an astounding 6 minutes! Top speed was 6900 miles per hour, or over mach 9. To prove this to the world, I put a video camera on the front bumper which is about a foot off the ground....Read More
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Labels to dampen CD burning?
The recording industry is testing technology that would prevent consumers from making copies of CD "burns," a piracy defense that could put some significant new restrictions on legally purchased music....Read More at c|net
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Mozilla, Opera Join Forces For New W3C Proposal
Two of Microsoft's rivals in the browser space have joined forces on a standards proposal slated to be presented to a W3C workshop....Read More at internetnews.com
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Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser Wars Reignite
From informIT.com by Nigel McFalane: Think the web browser wars are over? Think again. World War I was dubbed "The Great War" and "The War To End All Wars". Alas, that was an optimistic prediction; WWII followed in short order. The browser wars are coming back, and this time the whole World Wide Web is at risk, not just a few browsers and their vendors.....Read More
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