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Month: May 2009

  • Five Questions With James Urbaniak

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    [Regarding his experience taping The Office season 5 finale][link]. Fun fact: James auditioned to play Dwight. [link]: http://thetwocentscorp.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/twocents-five-questions-with-28/ “TwoCents & Five Questions With… « TheTwoCents”

  • Sign Of The Times

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    [You know things are changing when even Nick Denton, king of the reblogging Gawker network, says things like this][link]: >If a good exclusive used to provide 10 times the traffic of a standard regurgitated blog post, now it garners a hundred times as much. (emphasis added) That should be reassuring to people. The content market…

  • E-Book Reader Eucalyptus Now Available on The App Store

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    [Apple has made it right with developer James Montgomerie][link]: >Earlier today I received a phone call from an Apple representative. He was very complimentary about Eucalyptus. We talked about the confusion surrounding its App Store rejections, which I am happy to say is now fully resolved. He invited me to re-build and submit a version…

  • TechCrunch Reports last.fm DID Give User Data to the RIAA

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    [More exactly, CBS (Last.fm’s parent company) got this user data by not telling Last.fm they were going to turn it over][link]. Last.fm responded to TechCrunch’s initial allegation with a blog post titled “[TechCrunch are full of shit][shit].” I wonder how Last.fm feel about the acquisition right now. [link]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/ “Deny This, Last.fm” [shit]: http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit “Last.fm…

  • Handley, Comics and Obscenity

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Newsarama’s Jeff Trexler on what the recent guilty plea][link] of Christopher Handley in his “possessing obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children and mailing obscene material.” case. Handley could be in jail for 15 years for owning some Manga. This is beyond not good. [link]: http://blog.newsarama.com/2009/05/22/handley-comics-and-obscenity/ “Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » Handley, Comics…

  • US Government Launches Data.gov

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Open Data from Uncle Sam][link]. via [Waxy][waxy] [link]: http://www.data.gov/ “Data.gov” [waxy]: http://waxy.org/links/ “Waxy”

  • Apple Screws The Pooch Again, Rejects E-book Reader “Eucalyptus”

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    Phil Nelson
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    [It is hard to believe that they’re still getting away with this][link]. Their reason? You can download naughty books on it, like the Kama Sutra. Nobody tell Apple that you can view the same book in Safari for free on Project Gutenberg, or show them the weird porn you can find on Google, because they’ll…

  • Mozilla Labs Jetpack

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    [Extending Firefox with open web technologies like jQuery, HTML and CSS][link]. I am thinking of it as the next generation of Greasemonkey. [link]: https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ “Mozilla Labs Jetpack | Exploring new ways to extend and personalize the Web”

  • Braid Released for Mac OS X

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    Phil Nelson
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    [Jonathan Blow’s 2008 independent games masterpiece is now available for the Mac][link]. If you haven’t played it yet, you are missing out, and you no longer have an excuse. [link]: http://playgreenhouse.com/buy/NNONE-000001-01/mac/ “www.playgreenhouse.com”

  • Evan Roth: Intellectual Property Asshole Competition

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    [Evan has painted the Obama “HOPE” poster, and the original AP photo][link]. The first one to send him a cease-and-desist “wins.” [Previously][prev]. [link]: http://www.ni9e.com/ip-asshole.php “Evan Roth: Intellectual Property Asshole Competition” [prev]: http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2009/03/11/the-obama-hope-poster-case-ap-strikes-back/ “The Obama “Hope” Poster Case — AP Strikes Back”

  • Canwest Refinances Canwest Media Inc.’s Senior Credit Facility

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    [This is the big news today, here in Canada][link]. CanWest is THE media conglomerate here, and they’ve been missing payment deadlines for months. [link]: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090520005778&newsLang=en “Canwest Refinances Canwest Media Inc.’s Senior Credit Facility”

  • Making It Official

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    [My friend (and incredible designer) Alistair Morton on taking a “real job.”][link] [link]: http://peapod.ca/blog/?p=169 “Making It Official. : PeapodStudios”