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Saturday, March 05, 2005 |
$500 Per Year.
Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist in New York City who writes his own blog, takes the lead on telling us his experiences with Google Adsense over the last year. Fred, thanks for putting this information out there. I believes it helps this medium, not hurts as Google would like us to believe.
Read the post here: $500 Per Year
[Qumana Blog]
5:25:35 PM 
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The Long Tail vs. Lessig (Donna Wentworth).
Better late than never -- our (b)link to Chris Anderson's The Long Tail vs. Lessig.
[Copyfight]
Chris sez, among other bos mots:
What's changed is the presumption that the primary rights-holder is the best at extracting the commercial potential of creative material. Instead, anyone can do it: the advertising company that remixes an old movie to sell a car; the Linux t-shirt done Warhol-style, or just plain old DJ magic. What you need to encourage this multiplicity of commercialization potential is tiered alternatives to one-size-fits-all copyright, from allowing derivative works (good marketing!) to shorter terms for the sake of the remix-culture social good. I can't think of a better example of that than Lessig's own Creative Commons, which has already become the license of choice for the right side of the Tail, where the commercial imperative is less all-consuming.
So, bottom line: the Long Tail ends up in the same place Lessig does, but via a different path--the diversification of commercial potential rather than the absence of it. I hope that the hypothetical Member of Congress to whom Hornik's students were addressing their arguments can see the big picture. The shelf life of creative works may be growing, but so is the social cost of locking them up at the sole discretion of the primary rights-holder.
4:16:52 PM
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CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST 2600 EDITOR.
In a move that came as somewhat of a surprise, the City of New York dropped on Monday all charges pending against 2600 editor Emmanuel Goldstein. The charges stemmed from his arrest August 31 at the protests surrounding the Republican National Convention. As we reported at the time, he was arrested while filming a protest taking place on East 16th Street. (His notes, photos, audio, and videos of the event are available online.)
[2600: The Hacker Quarterly]
4:16:27 PM
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Copyfighter's Library in Your Palm (Donna Wentworth).
Off the Shelf offers a copyfighter's library in the palm of your hand.
[Copyfight]
At Off the Shelf, it says:
I made myself Plucker versions of Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture, Dan Gillmor's We The Media, and now Kimbrew McLeod's Freedom of Expression to read on my PDA. In each, I made sure to link the footnotes in the text to the actual note, so you could easily go back and forth between them. I have made the Plucker pdb files available for download in both a high-resolution and low-resolution version, as well as the HTML I made the Plucker versions from.
download.nowis.com
(These books are under Creative Commons Licenses, which allow doing exactly this kind of thing.)
4:10:55 PM
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Dave update:
Last night I wrote about wanting to pay $2000 for a hard disk loaded with all kinds of great music. Gerard Hughes sent a pointer to an offer for a hard disk full of podsafe music (no royalties, license fees) for $1995.
[Scripting News]
7:43:46 AM
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In the ID Wars, the Fakes Gain. Using Internet resources and sophisticated computer graphics software, under-age drinkers are forging drivers' licenses of startlingly good quality. By WARREN ST. JOHN. [NYT > Technology]
7:42:58 AM
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