Archive for May, 2007

Spell With Flickr

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

A nifty little mashup, courtesy of Erik Kastner. Example: ...

Don’t let assholes rent space in your head

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Cory Doctorow wrote an excellent piece about trolls here (from which I took a phrase to furnish the title field for this post). Here be sage advice. Life's too short for meaningless quibbles with people who are either pathologically argumentative, or who will simply never understand your point of view. Ignore ...

Map of Online Communities

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

This is likely old news for some, but I just came upon this nifty graphic that I thought I'd share (hat tip to the insightful Online Fandom for sharing the link): Be sure to avoid the "bay of trolls". Heh. Someone ought to make this taggable (I'm looking at you, Plazes)... (if you ...

Jonathan Coulton, repoproduction, and technological determinism

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

A recent story in the New York Times about the Jonathan Coulton phenomenon (remember - he's the guy who posted a song a week on his blog for a year and so launched an infamous viral campaign interacting with fans who made videos for his songs, and who even recorded ...

self-syndication, the future of music, summer of DRM

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

OK, that was a good drum break. Back in business. So much to catch up on. Heck, even the Future of Music Coalition is blogging now, which is wonderful news. Stick that in yer link chipper. I'm going to dig into their Policy Day coverage, which I sorely had to ...