Monday, January 27, 2003

easing back into blogging ... ... with a meta monday 8:15:51 PM     yes, please Eric Eldred Act. Lawrence Lessig is proposing the Eric Eldred Act, which would require copyright holders to perform an action to preserve copyright... [LibraryPlanet.com] 8:07:58 PM     live365 - long live internet radio! - Jenny introduced me to Live365 on Friday and I f .... - Jenny introduced me to Live365 on Friday and I finally got a chance to check it out this morning. I'm hooked. Basically, individuals pay $10 a month to create their own radio stations that anyone can listen to for free (with audio ads) or by paying $5 per month (with no ads and other annoying stuff). My favorite station so far is "Women Who Wrock". Enjoy. [Library Stuff - Updated daily by Steven M. Cohen] 8:05:16 PM     article on news readers News Crawling vs. Aggregating - After reading J.D. Lasica's very interesting article on news readers I decided to try out NewzCrawler.  I'm just getting started so I can't really say if I'll like it more than the Radio News Aggregator, but one thing I like a lot so far is the ability to organize feeds into topic folders.  This allows me to put all of the legal stuff together.  Also I can delete specific entries within categories.  Overall the interface seems much more user-friendly, but I'll have to see how it actually performs. [Ernie the Attorney] 8:03:50 PM     language in the copyright debate Choose Your Metaphors Well. Doc Searls on Eldred talks about different conceptual views of the copyright battle --legal, political and metaphorical. The last is most interesting: "Watch the language. While the one side talks about licenses with verbs like copy, distribute, play, share and perform, the other side talks about rights with verbs like own, protect, safeguard, protect, secure, authorize, buy, sell, infringe, pirate, infringe, and steal." Searls thinks that if the side on the commons wants to change... [bIPlog] 8:01:32 PM     linking A Sensible Con Argument in the Linking Debate?. If you place an unprotected resource on the web, others should be free to link to it. This notion is so fundamental to the web that the digerati were completely flabbergasted when some groups and corporations had the audacity to suggest otherwise. If you don't want a resource linked to on the web, don't put it on your web server. If you need to have the resource on the web, but don't want to the... [bIPlog] 7:59:38 PM     blogging & poetry Bloggers 'control' poetry?. Ron Silliman writes on the curious interaction between the blogosphere and the poetry world. [Radio Free Blogistan] 7:57:57 PM     the ethics of googling Debating the ethics of "Googling". The New York Times' Ethicist column discusses the pros and cons of "Googling" the man you just went on a date with. We've all done it -- haven't we? [Inter Alia] 7:56:56 PM

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