Truth in Comics
Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by Derek Bambauer
XKCD has one up that’s painfully funny because it’s true…
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XKCD has one up that’s painfully funny because it’s true…
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Filed under: Blogging, Internet & Society, Media, Microsoft
Jonathan Zittrain expands on the themes in his must-read book this morning in a must-read New York Times op-ed about the shift toward cloud computing. A taste of the main point:
[T]he most difficult challenge — both to grasp and to solve — of the cloud is its effect on our freedom to innovate. The crucial [...]
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Filed under: Books, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Microsoft, Open Standards, Scholarship, Social Networking
Roy Blount Jr., writer and president of the Author’s Guild, has a jeremiad in the New York Times about Amazon’s Kindle, and its ability to read books aloud. Blount thinks that is a violation of authors’ rights. After giving some thought to his argument, I can only conclude that Blount should stick to sports, because [...]
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Filed under: Books, Copyright, Digital Media, Education & Copyright, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Microsoft, Software
Network World has an interesting article called “CAN-SPAM: What Went Wrong?” This title is akin to: “Subprime Mortgages: A Bad Idea?” There are three depressing trends: spam remains a huge problem, both in IT costs and in volume; legal efforts have been mostly useless; and experts still disagree about solutions. There are two interesting ones: [...]
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Filed under: Computer crime, Filtering, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Microsoft, Security, Software, Spam, badware
At Lotusphere 2008, IBM announced that Lotus Notes 8.5 will run on Ubuntu Linux 7.0. This shows IBM’s ongoing commitment to Linux – even on the desktop. And any Linux desktop users help IBM in its ongoing competition with Microsoft. (Domino, the server side to Notes, runs on virtually everything. I remember testing it on [...]
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Filed under: Digital Media, Internet & Society, Microsoft, Notes, Open Standards, Peer Production, Software
My former employer Lotus has (re)-launched Symphony, an office applications suite that competes with Microsoft Office. (Yes, I know this is like sending Elmo to take on Darth Vader.) Symphony uses Open Document Format, an open standard for application files.
The fun part is that this is the sequel to Symphony – the original, released in [...]
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Filed under: Microsoft, Notes, Open Standards, Software, Trademarks
On December 8th I’ll have the privilege of speaking alongside many smart people at a symposium put on by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. The title is Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. The topic could hardly be more timely. Admission to the day-long event, sponsored by Microsoft, is available to [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Blogging, Digital Media, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Microsoft, Peer Production, Privacy, Scholarship, Search Engines, Security, Social Networking
The UK-based advocacy group Privacy International has released a preliminary draft of a provocative study which includes a ranking of major internet companies on their overall privacy practices.
The biggest bombshell in the study must be the ranking of Google as the worst company — alone in the lowest of six color-coded ranks of companies, in [...]
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Filed under: Anonymity, Berkman, Digital Media, ISP, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Microsoft, Peer Production, Privacy, Search Engines
Ethan Zuckerman has a fantastic post up about Google’s response to scams by hackers who hijack other peoples’ blogs and wikis: it lists the link with the warning message, “This site may harm your computer.” They do so based on analysis by the Berkman Center’s rapidly growing “Stop Badware” project, which analyzes malicious code [...]
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Filed under: Berkman, Digital Media, Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Microsoft, Scholarship, Search Engines, Security, badware
The reaction (”turkey… disaster”) to Microsoft’s Zune player has been almost uniformly caustic. (Tim rightly points out that Apple’s iPod, with which the Zune is contrasted unfavorably in most cases, was developed in an entirely different legal universe.) There are a lot of problems with the Zune, most prominently that PlaysForSure really means PlaysForNow. Apple’s [...]
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Filed under: Copyright, Digital Media, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Microsoft, Music
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