Tuesday Night Video – Colbert SuperPAC update
January 24, 2012 1 Comment
Stephen Colbert announces the re-suspension of Herman Cain’s suspended campaign.
Filesharing Furor
January 24, 2012 3 Comments
The big news in police action against file sharing this past week was the arrest of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. Dotcom says that police are painting an unfair picture of him. I say that any tech person who changes his last name to “Dotcom” is insane or has a mega sense of humor. Or both. It’s a blast to read news reports forced to take that name seriously.
So how far are governments going to go in their pursuit of purported pirates? Over at The Motley News, there’s the story of the UK student who is facing extradition to the United States because he ran a web site that linked to potentially illegal content. It didn’t host the content, just mentioned its existence.
I have little patience for the government arguments about these cases if only because the current copyright laws are written to enhance corporate power and profits, not to protect creators.
Tracy Morgan update
January 24, 2012 Leave a comment
Tracy Morgan signaled his recovery after collapsing at Sundance with, what else, his first tweet in ten days.
Superman ran into a little kryptonite. The high altitude in Utah shook up this kid from Brooklyn.
— Tracy Morgan (@RealTracyMorgan) January 23, 2012
The Origins of Occupy
January 24, 2012 Leave a comment
I was not aware of the Occupy Wall Street in its earliest days, so it was helpful to me that both The New Yorker and Harper’s have run articles in the last couple months on Occupy’s origins.
In November, Mattathias Schwartz wrote “Pre-Occupied: The origins and future of Occupy Wall Street,” which focuses on Kalle Lasn, the 69-year-old co-founder of Adbusters.
