Roofing Firm Works on Wrong House (AP)

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Orphan works: what's wrong and how to
fix it

Orphan works: what's wrong and how to
fix it 03/25/2005 06:37 PM
Cory Doctorow: Jamie Boyle and Duke U's Center for the Study of the Public Domain have produced two excellent reports for the Copyright Office on the plight of "orphan works" whose rightsholder cannot be located. The reports talk about the real-world problems and suggest practical solutions to them.

"Orphan Works" probably comprise the majority of the record of 20th century culture. These works are still presumably under copyright (only works published before 1923 are conclusively in the public domain), but the copyright owner cannot be found. The default response of archivists, libraries, film restorers, artists, scholars, educators, publishers, and others is to drop copyrighted work unless it is clearly in the public domain. As a result, orphan works are not used in new creative efforts or made available to the public due to uncertainty over their copyright status, even when there is no longer anyone claiming copyright ownership, or the owner no longer has any objection to such use.

Link (Thanks, Jamie!)

Report: White House wrong on Medicare

Report: White House wrong on Medicare 05/03/2004 06:14 PM

House Works to Freeze Minimum Tax 1 Year
(AP)

House Works to Freeze Minimum Tax 1 Year
(AP) 05/05/2004 09:35 AM
AP - The alternative minimum tax, designed to trap affluent tax evaders, ensnares more and more middle income families, and House lawmakers want to limit its reach next year.

White House Works to Declassify Al Qaeda
Threat Memo (Reuters)

White House Works to Declassify Al Qaeda
Threat Memo (Reuters) 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
Reuters - Under pressure from the 9/11 commission, the White House on Friday worked to declassify an intelligence memo that was used to inform President Bush on Aug. 6, 2001, that Osama bin Laden wanted to launch attacks inside the United States.

Dead rats sent to White House linked to
B.C. Internet firm

Dead rats sent to White House linked to
B.C. Internet firm 12/17/2003 03:51 AM
National Post Dec 17 2003 3:42AM ET

Wireless LAN Keeps Roofing Maker's Data
Safe

Wireless LAN Keeps Roofing Maker's Data
Safe 09/13/2004 06:53 AM
Sypherdata implements wireless inventory system at roofing manufacturer.

Shark Tank: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!

Shark Tank: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong! 05/08/2004 01:18 PM
County office moves from dumb terminals to networked PCs so swiftly that there are lots of misadjusted monitors and keyboards with cables that don't reach. So why shouldn't employees fix things themselves?

"The wrong war in the wrong place at the
wrong time"

"The wrong war in the wrong place at the
wrong time" 09/06/2004 12:55 PM
It's about freaking time Kerry said this! Resolved: Howard Dean didn't have enough influence on the Democratic candidate's campaign. Oh,, and, yes, Kerry's statement is consistent with his vote to authorize the war....

"Kerry on Iraq: 'Wrong War, Wrong Place,
Wrong Time'"

"Kerry on Iraq: 'Wrong War, Wrong Place,
Wrong Time'" 09/07/2004 02:02 PM

Wrong question, wrong answer

Wrong question, wrong answer 08/10/2004 06:05 PM

Isotech Spray Foam Roof Insulation and
Roofing Contractors: Low cost roof
insulation and roof repairs.

Isotech Spray Foam Roof Insulation and
Roofing Contractors: Low cost roof
insulation and roof repairs. 05/17/2004 04:29 PM
foam-insulation.co.u .. 45 Isotech Spray Foa

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Israeli Troops Search House-To-House in
Gaza Camp (Reuters)

Israeli Troops Search House-To-House in
Gaza Camp (Reuters) 05/19/2004 02:43 AM
Reuters - Israeli troops carried out house-to-house searches for militants and weapons smuggling tunnels in the Rafah refugee camp on Wednesday as Israel's heaviest raid into the Gaza Strip in years entered a second day.

"Rep. Porter Goss said Thursday that the
uproar over allegations that White House
officials purposely identified a covert
CIA agent appears largely political and
doesn't yet merit an investigation by
the House Select Committee on
Intelligence, which he..."

"Rep. Porter Goss said Thursday that the
uproar over allegations that White House
officials purposely identified a covert
CIA agent appears largely political and
doesn't yet merit an investigation by
the House Select Committee on
Intelligence, which he..." 08/12/2004 02:13 AM

To Liberate From the White House the
White House Press

To Liberate From the White House the
White House Press 03/14/2005 04:35 PM
Dan Weintraub, who covers politics at the Sacramento Bee, wants "an aggressive, curious and analytical press corps, based anywhere (including cyberspace), fact-checking the snot out of the White House and writing critically about the president's statements, proposals and actions."

I Am Right Because I Am Not Wrong

I Am Right Because I Am Not Wrong 12/30/2004 02:19 AM
The Art Of Controversy : Or Better Referred To As The Politician's Bible by Arthur Schopenhauer.

What is wrong with this

What is wrong with this 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
What is wrong with this picture? It can be hard to spot at first, but give it some time, and...

What's wrong with me

What's wrong with me 06/11/2004 08:22 AM
How can I find someone who will stay with me long enough to marry and have kids?

I was wrong

I was wrong 02/19/2004 06:05 PM
I said my analysis of the Mayor's decision turned upon California state law. Turns out California state law turned my analysis into mush. Read my comments towards the end here .

Wrong Ass

Wrong Ass 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
It's 'badonkadonk,' not 'gadunkadunk.'...

When being right is wrong

When being right is wrong 02/12/2003 05:42 PM
The AT&T is the highlight of his golfing year, but his job is his life. "Call up Google.com, type in my name and look how far this goes," DeSano said. ...

Not That There's Anything Wrong With
That...

Not That There's Anything Wrong With
That... 04/09/2005 09:41 AM
Going on a "Man Date" (NYT link, reg. required). Two (presumably) heterosexual guys who knew each other from college go to the museum and dinner without partners -- and apparently this qualifies as a "man date," although (again presumably) there's no kiss at the end of the night or promises to call the next day. Maybe I'm cranky, but back in my day, we simply called this "spending time with a friend" and didn't plaster a thin veneer of gay panic/defensive het rationalization on it. Is the social behavior of straight males now so circumscribed that a guy having one-on-one time with a male friend outside a bar or sporting merits an article in the NYT?

right the wrong

right the wrong 06/05/2005 10:57 PM
CIO May 12 2005 3:13PM GMT

Everything that's wrong with advertising

Everything that's wrong with advertising 04/17/2005 03:08 PM
This was the working keycard a hotel I was at recently gave me: [Technorati tags: marketing advertising]...

Google Is Wrong

Google Is Wrong 03/14/2005 05:56 PM
There’ve been a couple of weeks to think about it, and the more I think about it, the more it seems obvious that Google has gone seriously off the rails with the new AutoLink feature of their toolbar. On this one, I’m lining up with Dave Winer, Rob Scoble, and Zeldman. Google has established a relationship of trust with many millions of people: they provide a good service and they make good money doing it, and that’s just fine. It seems so obvious that this move is not only evil but stupid; I keep hearing that MSN is pretty good these days, but Microsoft isn’t trustworthy, so I don’t go there. If I don’t trust Google either, all bets are off. Anyhow, this is a policy problem not a technical problem, so here’s a suggestion: perhaps our friends at Creative Commons could have a look and develop a professional legal opinion as to whether their licenses, like the one I use, are infringed by AutoLink (my non-professional opinion is that Google’s damn close to the edge). If not, perhaps they could create a variant license that clearly rules it out of order. Then Google stops, or we sue their ass. [Update: This was controversial; a lot of people disagreed, publicly and one-on-one. So I researched some more and wrote this; check it out.]

Getting Evangelicalism All Wrong

Getting Evangelicalism All Wrong 04/10/2004 12:37 PM
How the left's fear of a right-wing Christian conspiracy gets George W. Bush -- and today's evangelical Christians -- all wrong. Alan Jacobs (more from him here and here) suggests that the idea that President Bush's evangelical Christianity has an impact on his politics is really a misunderstanding of Bush, fundamentalists, and evangelicals.

Mac update goes wrong

Mac update goes wrong 04/19/2005 09:25 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 19 2005 1:49PM GMT

What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong
with It?

What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong
with It? 08/16/2004 12:32 PM
What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It? .. more

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"What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong
with It?"

"What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong
with It?" 08/16/2004 02:36 PM

Wrong answers

Wrong answers 04/17/2004 10:04 AM

I absolutely can't stand people that don't take the time to learn the answer to the question being asked of them.

If people don't know the answer to the question being asked, I'd much rather hear "you know, that's a great question, and while I don't know the answer to that question, I'll find out for you" if it is their responsibility or job to know the answer than an ansewr that is wrong and can be proven to be wrong in less than 5 simple steps.

Wrong answers from 'authorities on a subject' make me not trust those authorities any more, and trust is crucial to an organization that is growing.

Wrong answers make me want to do the work myself.

Wrong answers make me think the authority is so stupid that I won't ask them any other questions.

Wrong answers make me think that the authority thinks I'm too stupid to know that they're full of shit.

Being given blatantly wrong answers while the deliverer speaks with that tone that exudes almighty authority feels like being fed human excrement with only a rusty bent fork to eat it after being left in a dungeon for 40 days and 40 nights.

Giving wrong answers is lazy and is the wrong thing to do.

I hate people that consistently give wrong answers and don't concede defeat when proven wrong... that don't retreat and admit their inadequacy... that don't correct themselves.

I hate people that survive just by covering their ass after consistently giving wrong lazy answers.

I also deplore people that won't ever hold other people accountable.

What's wrong with this picture? There
ain't none.

What's wrong with this picture? There
ain't none. 09/16/2004 11:01 AM

OK - so I'm sitting here in paris - with an extra moment - so I dipped my toe back into the blgosphere long enough to catch Jay Dedman's rap on "How to make life easier explained very clearly".

I dig what he's saying and pointing to - but I can't help but wonder how this post would be different if Jay used a combination of thumbnails grabbed from video clips - linking to those video clips - to talk about enclosures, subscribing to and creating video blogs.

Shouldn't we be eating our own digfood?

Shouldn't a video blogger use video blogging to describe video blogging?

It's one thing I haven't seen done yet - which is a consistent combination of thumbnail - which links to a clip - used in blogging gesture.

If so - I bet a bunch more people would click on thsoe video blog links.

So here's Jay's post.....

There's so much on the web...that knwoing how to look at what you want is difficult.

Especially when video starts popping up everywhere.

So you start trusting certain places to keep track of the good stuff for you.

You do this by signing up, for free, with a subscrition service like Bloglines or Feedster.

Almost every blog and many websites have an RSS feed that you subscribe to.

You just enter the URL in your subscription service and wait.

New posts will show up...all in one place.

HERE is a simple explanation of RSS.

But we're taking this idea step further...how will video be read by the RSS reader?

When video starts popping up everywhere, it'd be cool to get new videos just pop up on my computer as they're posted.

This happens with "enclosures".

I know...I know...I'm also learning how all this works too....

but Dave Winer explains the concept beautifully here.

Enclosures in RSS feeds made easy

> What if, in the middle of the night, while I'm not using my computer, it

> downloads huge video and audio stuff to my local hard drive. Then

> when I arrive in the morning there are fresh bits, news clips, a song

> of the day, whatever, provided by all kinds of content providers, from

> big TV networks like CNN and MSNBC, to a Dutch school where kids

> are taking a film class using inexpensive video recorders and iMacs.

And HERE is also a good explanation.

What is needed now is this "RSS aggregator" that downloads your audio/videos feeds overnight.

This way you could just wake up and hit "play" on your TV and it'll all come to you.

as far as I know no one has made one yet.

I hear rumors....

[momentshowing]

What's wrong with being submissive?

What's wrong with being submissive? 02/10/2004 02:54 PM

danah didn't like my post....

She somehow associates this woman's photo - with sex offenders.

Last I looked - women also like sex.  Some of them like to be dominant - some submissive.  As I watch 'the L word' - it's clear there are all SORTS of lesbians out there.  Just cause sex crimes exist - doesn't mean that acting submissive - is directly connected to those heinous crimes.

So why be so judgemental?

Why can't some people have fun - the way they wanna party, and others pontificate on intellectual matters?  Isn't there enough room out there for ALL forms of partying?

Just woindering....

Here's danah's post.....

partying like a sex offender at Etech.

How exciting - Marc Canter is organizing a party at Etech. Of course, in announcing it, he sweetly through up a picture that offends me at my core. "It appears that Jenn is quite a partier herself." refers to an image where a grinning man is holding on to a bent over woman with a face that's either in ecstasy or agony. But she's down on all fours, submissive to a man in a Santa suit. C'mon now. How welcoming is this party to the women???

[apophenia]

So I'm sorry that danah got turned off by my posting of Jenn's image.  For some reason I trust her choice of a bar to have a party at (which I've never even been to.)  I met Jenn through Justin - which is good enough for me.

Any friend of Justin is a friend of mine.

"This is just wrong on so many levels"

"This is just wrong on so many levels" 09/19/2004 02:22 AM

How To Fix What's Wrong With Windows

How To Fix What's Wrong With Windows 11/18/2003 11:33 AM
Windows-based PCs are too hard to use. The cure: Microsoft should let its programmers start over with a clean slate and completely revamp the OS. Want proof it'll work? Just look at Apple. By David Coursey (ZDNet via MyAppleMenu)

What's wrong with Tablet PCs?

What's wrong with Tablet PCs? 06/08/2004 10:21 AM
ZDNet Jun 8 2004 2:13PM GMT

Right Name, Wrong E-Mail In-Box

Right Name, Wrong E-Mail In-Box 03/17/2005 03:53 AM
When colleagues at work share a name, who gets the e-mail address, and who gets the mail?

Your Info (Right Or Wrong) Is Not Your
Own

Your Info (Right Or Wrong) Is Not Your
Own 03/23/2005 04:41 PM
Two separate pieces this morning highlight a number of points that have been popping up on Techdirt quite a bit over the past few weeks. The first is a summary (once again) of all of the various private data leaks/hacks/handouts/whatever that may have put your personal data at risk. To be honest, while it's getting a lot of attention this month, it's likely that this is all par for the course. It's just that the press has finally picked up on it. The article notes that, so far, the only thing Congress has done is try to make the punishment for identity theft higher -- which is an after the fact solution, that does little to push companies to be more secure with their your data. The article also notes, again, that none of these data leaks came via the internet, and there was nothing any indivi dual could have done to stop them. The second story concerns the fact that Choic ePoint has plenty of incorrect data about people -- and no way to request a change. It turns out (whooooops!) that's against the law. Of course, given their apparent inability to protect your data, perhaps it's good that they can't get your data correct. Maybe people should start purposely putting errors into these reports so they can track who's leaking the data.

All the Wrong Tea Leaves

All the Wrong Tea Leaves 01/06/2005 12:18 PM
Getting the future right isn't as important as feeling right about the future.

60 Minutes wrong again!

60 Minutes wrong again! 01/03/2005 12:23 PM

This is a developing scandal folks...it threatens to bring down not just a bit player like Dan Rather, but all of network television. On the Jan 2, 2005 episode of 60 Minutes, internet search pundit John Battelle commented on Google employees not taking advantage of their newfound wealth because it's against Google's ethic:

If anybody got a Porsche or a Ferrari right now at Google, they’d probably be drummed out of the company

My sources deep inside Google (who shall, given recent legal jeopardy, remain anonymous) tell me that at least one employee has purchased a Porsche with the IPO monies and has not, repeat, has *not* been drummed, tubaed, celloed, or otherwise musically extricated from the company. If true, who knows what this could mean for the future of journalism as we know it!! The implications on podcasting alone are unfathomable at this time. More as it develops...

Update: Is this really Ben Affleck's Bentley in a Google parking space or is it some IPO bling? Who knows how deep what the press has dubbed "Googlegate" will go before we get to the truth?

"E.J. Dionne gets it wrong"

"E.J. Dionne gets it wrong" 12/31/2003 09:35 AM

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