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Wired’s Threat Level blog has a great write up about a non-profit comic distributed to 50,000 US students which reads suspiciously like RIAA propaganda about file sharing. The goals may be admirable: “The purpose is basically to educate kids — middle school and high school-aged about how the justice system operates and about what really […]

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Hey Bryan Lee O’Malley and Hope Larson have unleashed a superstar-tag-team of a 16-page short story on the world. Even better it’s as much fun as a collaboration between those two should be. [ Edit – I don’t really review comics here, but I keep meaning to mention that “Chiggers” is a great follow-up to […]

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It’s been a busy week so forgive me if I lean on other sites for content: Ars has an interesting article about Jim Griffin, a consultant for Warner, talking up “blanket” licensing for digital music. While this would seem to be a huge step in the right direction for a major label – like so […]

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Hey remember when I used to talk about copyright? Me neither. Very interesting ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the case of Robert Jacobsen v. Matthew Katzer & Kamind Associates. Since I’ll presume not everyone shares my love of reading out of country judicial rulings (or pdf files) – […]

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Rob, my brother, sent me a link to this recruitment video for the Ukrainian army. Compared to the Canadian (and US) ads I see constantly, I find the candor and lack of pretext refreshing.

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Friday’s post about Scott Kurtz’s take on interpreting critical feedback eventually generated a couple very interesting comments. One thing everyone agreed upon was that that the “signal to noise” ratio for feedback (incorporating all pro/amateur/literary critique/”you suck” e-mail) for any creative work on the Internet is astoundingly low. So the question remains – as a […]

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Man I love Scott Kurtz. I’m not sure of anyone else who has that unique blend of high quality output I can’t resist – and then the occasional personal post that can just send me screaming around the bend wanting to rant and rage. His latest blog post snarks Johanna Draper Carlson’s review of “How […]

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In all the recent hooplah about China (gasp) reneging on it’s commitment to provide unfiltered Internet access for Olympic journalists, I’m quite surprised that more media outlets aren’t coming to the plate to publicaly announce that they’ll be circumventing any attempts made at censorship. I suspect that it will come as a shock to absolutely […]

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