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Beercamp Vancouver

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Tonight and tomorrow I'll be mind-moshing with local geekerati at Barcamp Vancouver. If you're signed up to be there too, come up and innerdooce yourself (you already know me by sight, or can figure it out via flickr or facebook, can't you?). I always like to meet readers and fellow ...

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No Book For You! Next!

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

"We're uprading." Hah. It's Down (as of 10:32 AM PDT). Now whaddll we do?

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On Last.fm and royalty payments

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Clear Channel didn't get away with it, and now Last.fm is taking heat for not paying out royalties to independent artists. Last.fm, recently purchased by CBS, is now heating up indie music business blogs with this policy, even though it's been in place since the company started. Why so, asks the ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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happy clicknoise new year

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

This blog launched exactly one year ago. And it's still here. Hooray. Unlike zefrank, it's not ending. 12 months is still below average compared to the 33.8 month average lifespan of the Top 100 blogs. Of course, stats like this are still unreliable indicators - remember that we're only just ...

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Wikis, Authorship, and Botdom

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Last week I experimented briefly with content syndication on Clicknoise, part of a wider campaign of mine to tinker with Wordpress plugins. I accidentally succeeded in syndicating posts from Inner Ear Infection, where my friend Bruce writes. Surprised to have gotten the php correct, I quickly removed all of the ...

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Cory Doctorow Leonardo Lecture at SFU

Friday, March 9th, 2007

The Faculty of Applied Sciences at SFU warmly welcomed Cory Doctorow to deliver our Leonardo Lecture for 2007 (entitled "The Totalitarian Urge: total information awareness and the cosmic billiards"). It was a packed event, and a great speech (the same one he's been delivering elsewhere of late). Ivaniv at Blogaholics ...

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