Kansas City, Nebraska
Lyrics to a random song that isn’t really so random….
(tags: music fun)
The Unofficial Kaptain Karl Fan Site
About the man who wrote Kansas City, Nebraska
(tags: music history fun)
Associated Press Sends DMCA Takedown to Drudge Retort, Backpedals, and Now Seeks to Define Fair Use for Bloggers | Citizen Media Law Project
Useful background & legal analysis [...]
AP Struggles To Save Face In Blogger Copyright Dispute - Political Tech Blog - InformationWeek
“The AP is like a husband who foolishly told his wife that the new jeans do make her butt look big. The best way to limit damage at that point is to simply shut up and hope the subject eventually [...]
Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » More on the settlement: AP’s nightmare identified
“Fair use law does not, apparently by intention, draw a simple line. It sets up a bunch of criteria that you have to weigh. And so the nightmare reposted-feed site is almost certainly not a fair use.”
(tags: copyright fair+use law news+biz media [...]
Making Light: AP to negotiate with sham “Media Bloggers Association”
A pretty unfair screed against Robert Cox and the Media Bloggers Association
(tags: blogging blogs organizations controversy reputation misinformation problems media news)
Goodbye
Online Journalism Review ceases publication
(tags: journalism media+evolution news tidbits+fodder)
Rate Card Silliness
“AP gets Outstanding Hubris in Online Pricing.$12.50 to excerpt five words on a website? Let’s take [...]
CapitolWords.org
New (and fun) from the Sunlight Foundation: “For every day that Congress is in session, Capitol Words displays the most frequently used word in the Congressional Record.” Today’s word is “health.” Yesterday, “tax.”
(tags: language government analysis)
iCopyright Terms of Use: Associated Press
AP won’t let you quote them if you’re going to criticize them. I kid you [...]
I love starting the day with this kind of conversation:
Wow, that is so cool!
…Of course, I’m not talking to the real Mars Phoenix lander, but rather to people at the mission’s PR team who are tweeting as if they’re the lander — via the account MarsPhoenix. A June 12 FCW.com article explained:
“Rhea Borja, Media Relations [...]
Create Route at Bikely.com
Cool service for mapping and sharing bike routes around the world
(tags: web2.0 map tranportation)
Lately, nearly everywhere I go people remark on my transparent red plastic laptop case. It does look pretty cool, I think. It’s just two clear pieces of plastic that snap on easily, with cutouts for ports. (However, if you want to pull out your battery, you’ll need to pop off the case.)
The anodized aluminum of [...]
This pretty much says it all:
Thanks to Kirby Ferguson for the tip.
If it weren’t for refrigerators … - Random Mumblings
“Community news” in terms of geography is a print construct that has proven it fails to translate to digital media. The Internet allows people to form their own communities of interest unbounded by geography.
(tags: community local news citizen+journalism social+networks tidbits+fodder problems)
Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media [...]
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