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Entries from September 2009

Calgary Flames Radio on the iPhone *Update*

September 25th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Edit – This post is now out of date. Check out the comments here for information about ootunes, an iPhone app which is pretty much all I now reccomend to people looking to get NHL game radio on their iPhone/iTouch. It costs a couple of dollars, but gets a big thumbs up from me, and […]

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Conmattanderins!

September 24th, 2009 · No Comments

See… it’s like “Congratulations” but with “Matt and Erin” mashed up in it… Sorry – I’d meant to hang up the “gone fishing” sign that it’d be pretty quiet around these parts in September, what with an unusually heavy TIFF schedule (as if the festival’s normally a sedate time of year). Also you may have […]

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Cory Doctrow’s Consults on Canadian Copyright, Capice?

September 4th, 2009 · No Comments

So apparently there’s this guy named Cory Doctrow who writes a lot about copyright? Seriously Doctrow’s submission is fascinating reading as you would expect from a man whose introduction requires four paragraphs just to broach the governing bodies, institutions, universities, and organizations he’s lectured on copyright at. Biggest shock in the article? (boingboing.net) is a […]

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Tags: copyright reform

Progressive Copyright: Aftermath – The Non-Fight

September 4th, 2009 · No Comments

I just got a bizarre anonymous e-mail from someone who was (I think) interpreting yesterdays “Dead Things on Sticks” as if it was some kind of coded sub-textual-calling-out of everything I wrote on copyright last week. Firstly, I’m entirely certain if Denis had issue with something I wrote he’d pretty much just say so without […]

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Progressive Copyright: Part III – Remember when it was about creating content? No? Me neither.

September 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments

So back in part one of this little jaunt into what a truly “progressive” copyright might actually look like, we looked at how the commercial landscape of media has changed, with (mostly) shorter commercial lifetimes for creative content. In part two we looked at how the audience and delivery mechanisms have changed, generally allowing direct […]

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Tags: copyright reform · media ramblings