Archive for December, 2007

As further evidence that the old school music industry is in the final throes of death, you need look no further than the RIAA’s newest claim that copying a new, legally purchased music CD to your computer is a criminal act — even if you don’t give away the original CD, share the .mp3 file, [...]

The Des Moines Register, the most staid of Iowa newspapers, is inviting its readers to publish their own Iowa Caucus news videos on the Register’s YouTube page.
Carolyn Washburn, editor of the Register, introduces the project in this video:

At times insightful, other times just plain silly, the videos submitted so far are none-the-less fascinating for [...]

Google has addressed the privacy issues raised by many users of its Google Reader product, and offered a confusing technique that adds its own problems as a way to make certain feeds both “private” and “public”.
Still unaddressed (and still pumping out items) is the core problem Google created when it arbitrarily decided to add [...]