Sunday, March 06, 2005

Stuart notes: Hoder features prominently in BBC News Online's look at Persian blogging. Hoder and I took part in a BBC World Service interview on blogging last year. [BEYOND NORTHERN IRAQ: STUHUGHESIRAQ@MAIL.COM] 9:44:18 PM    comment []

I won't copy the cartoon: admire your blog [gapingvoid] 9:34:08 AM    comment []

BTD SUNDAY COMICS [Begging To Differ] 9:33:46 AM    comment []

All you ever wanted to know about viral marketing. All you ever wanted to know about viral marketing: The other Rex, the one with the weblog that's not as lame as this one, did a segment today for the public radio program Weekend America (here's the audio file, mp3 6.3 mb), and has compiled a long list of links to viral campaigns marketers have recently attempted. Quote: Sometimes it's strangely addicting (Subservient Chicken), and other times it's like watching your parents dance (Raging Cow). [rexblog: Rex Hammock's Weblog] 9:29:42 AM    comment []

Cell phone map for people in Shenzhen. The southern town of Shenzhen is the first city in China to offer a location based service for people to locate themselves by referencing a city map on their mobile phones. Cell phone map debuts in Shenzhen [Smart Mobs] 9:27:29 AM    comment []

make my day, bill-ites. So there's a blog first created by the volunteers who watched Fox to create the data necessary to produced OutFoxed. They posted an item about a Bill O'Reilly column, which itself was posted on the web. The company syndicating O'Reilly's column wrote them a nasty letter, telling them to take the column down. They did, and replaced it with a link. The same company wrote again, insisting that the blog was guilty of "unauthorized linking." Dear syndicators of Bill: Me thinks there's no such concept as illegal linking (outside of China, at least, and please, don't pester me with misreadings of the 2600 case). Indeed, I think that I, like anyone else, am perfectly free to link to the column, as this link does. And indeed, I'd invite anyone else out there who thinks that we still live in a FREE LINKING world to link to the same. Got to find some way to keep those lawyers busy. [Lessig Blog] Done. 9:23:55 AM    comment []

Resistance Is Not Futile (Donna Wentworth). As Cory blogged @ BoingBoing yesterday, Denmark this week did a Poland, moving to force discussion of EU software patents on Monday from an A to a B-item. Groklaw writes: When I woke up, the EU Commission was all set to push for the software patent directive as an A-item on Monday. Great, I thought. What does it take to kill this Computer Implemented Inventions Directive once and for all and make it stay dead? Now, suddenly, I hear Denmark has voted to treat the software directive as a B-item only. ...It's not just a resolution. It's a binding decision to vote against the current proposal as an A-item (A is the rubber stamp variety), on Monday, and they will propose that it be handled as a B-item. That's a first. Others have voted against the directive, but to my knowledge this is the first country to call for it to be a B-item. In short, some are saying there may be a restart after all. Phew. As Cory wrote, "What great Danes!" [Copyfight] 9:22:46 AM    comment []