Sundry 'Spray-On' Clarifications and Corrections

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Clarifications and Apologies

Clarifications and Apologies 06/27/2004 05:39 PM

1. I misquoted danah baoyd in my post pointing to her pointing to Friendster's marketing campaign. She DID NOT receive those emails. She just got them "from users who work for Yahoo" that she knows. But they did really exist.

2. The most important correction is totally my fault In the confusion and din of SuperNova - danah told me that ORKUT was outputting CVS of their profiles (and social nets) NOT FRIENDSTER!

Man oh man - talk about wishful thinking. In the back of my brain, I'm processing "OK Ellen Spertus is getting something done, Jason and Ev are grokking it, and maybe Megan helped....." and what comes out is "Scott Sassa is trying (along with the desperate emails) to do the right thing."

So I totally got it wrong. Friendster is not opening up, it's Orkut. Right on for that! I got almost 800 names in my friends list....

OH well - who knows, maybe the power of the blogosphere (and my yelling at Ajeet from Kleiner the other night) will convince Friendster to open up.

And let's all hope that juju vibe rubs off on Tom at MySpace - as well.

3. Finally there's teh issue of me accusing Real and their Rhapsody music service of not being able to mix and match music from various different downloading sources.

I often use this situation as an example of how little the music industry is in touch with their end-users. The metaphor I use is "imagien if all teh records you bought from Tower Records would only play on CD players from Tower Records?" That's teh situation we're in right now.

So Rob Reid (founder of Listen.com - whcih created Rhapsodya nd sold it to Real) comes back to me and says "well as a matter of fact, you're wrong! We DO support that feature!"

Within minutes someone on the backchannel confirms that - but we could find only one reference to this feature - anywhere. It's nowhere to be seen on the web site, in pronotional materials or - anywhere. So how was I supposed to know?

My response to Rob was "well why don't you let us know about that!" I consider this to be a big deal. If it's true - which I have yet to confirm yet - it's a pretty big story.

It'll mean that Real is really putting their money where their mouth is. They open sourced their Helix media server technology and this will make them the FIRST (but hopefully not the last) music downloading service to acknowledge that maybe end-users want to buy music from more than one source.

So my apologies to Rob Reid - with the caveat that I haven't seen it work yet myself. But I guarentee you - I WILL be checking that out - real soon now.

Some clarifications about the
"Commonwealth" list

Some clarifications about the
"Commonwealth" list 08/19/2004 03:21 PM

A few of you have expressed concern about a discussion list we announced recently. These are all good points and I feel I should make a couple of things clear:

(1) It is never a foregone conclusion that a project in discussion will be adopted by Creative Commons. Check out the image on our discuss page, laying out the model. Projects live or die on the merits, and your take on the merits matters. So if you find the project description murky or if you think the project is completely barking up the wrong tree, please say so on the list. I will probably link to the comments on our initial blog entry and post them to the list myself. Anyway, the point is: the discussion lists should be considered laboratories, or seminars -- places to talk about and bang-up innovative licensing ideas, even ones a little outside the norm, and see if they hold up. Already your comments have been valuable in this way, and made a few on the staff here think more carefully about what this list is supposed to be about.

(2) If Creative Commons ever gets into what is vaguely being referred to as "commercialization" of content, it will never extend beyond facilitating what, say, the folks at Magnatune are doing: helping authors declare "some rights reserved," then to charge, if they want to, for uses of those reserved rights. For example: Joe picks a Creative Commons no-derivatives license, but then a movie studio comes along and wants to include it in a film -- what tools might CC consider including along with our licenses that will help Joe exercise the best of both worlds? That's the question I'm interested in, and if the discussion list in question is ranging afield from this basic principle, then I'll be commenting on it, too.

We certainly won't, as one comment imagines, turn commercial ourselves: the IRS would have a thing or two to say about that, our board would have probably my head well before that happened, and as a matter of conscience I'd be long gone well before even that.

New Gmail Policy Statements and
Clarifications

New Gmail Policy Statements and
Clarifications 07/02/2004 08:28 AM
Google clarifies TOS to include trading of Gmail accounts.

Corrections

Corrections 07/12/2004 05:29 AM
An essay and a picture caption last Sunday .. Page 2 of today's New York Times .. corrections page of the NYT: .. Hey, nobody's perfect .. corrects itself .. Corrections .. every day .. correct .. MIND? .. Woops .. Note .. NYT

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Gentle Corrections

Gentle Corrections 12/05/2003 10:15 AM

Mark Baker: Today, Roy Fielding ripped me a new one on the topic of the https URI scheme, which I had always considered an unnecessary hack.

It seems that Mark now knows a bit more about the rationale behind the https URI scheme, but doesn't quite grasp the colloquialism.

Trust me, if you've ever witnessed Roy ripping someone a new one, you will know it.

Me?  I've only gotten a mild swat or two...

The Online Corrections Problem... Again

The Online Corrections Problem... Again 07/29/2004 04:48 AM
About a year ago, Online Journalism Review had an article about newspap er corrections online where they noted that most newspapers were horrible at making it easy for people to contact them about errors online, and even worse about actually fixing online errors. Now, in something of a followup, OJR digs much more deeply into the question of whether or not the websites of newspapers should correct errors in their stories. Last year, I was quoted for a story about spam in the LA Times, and when I pointed out that they made a mistake in quoting me, I was told that they couldn't correct it, even in the online version without going through a big correction process, because if they fixed it (and in this case, it would require adding two letters to what had been written) "we could fiddle with stories all the time, and people would never know what the truth is." Well, indeed, that wasn't just what they told me, it appears to be official policy of the LA Times, as outlined in the OJR article. The article does a good job presenting both sides of the story. One side believes in correcting mistakes, along with a note mentioning that corrections were made or (for more serious corrections) explaining the nature of the correction. The other side is afraid of that whole "fiddling with the truth" issue, and says that once something is published it should remain -- but with a correction note attached to the story. Both sides make fairly compelling arguments as to why they're right, and there are some cases that cause obvious problems for either side. It seems like a fairly fine line, but correcting little typos and mistakes seems like a reasonable thing to do, while more major factual errors should be left in with a clearly marked and highly visible editor's note explaining the problem.

Some corrections to Techweb article

Some corrections to Techweb article 06/22/2005 02:41 AM

It's not 30 developers and we haven't said anything about government funding, but besides that - here's another great article on ourmedia.org - this time in TechWeb.

We've just put live some new code that speeds up uploading and gets us tighter in sync with the Internet Archive.

Folks are reacting - uploads are up 300%.

:-)

Announcement this week on our registry idea.

Adult Corrections Population Hits Record
(AP)

Adult Corrections Population Hits Record
(AP) 07/26/2004 10:27 AM
AP - A record 6.9 million adults were incarcerated or on probation or parole last year, nearly 131,000 more than in 2002, according to a Justice Department study.

To Fix or Not to Fix: Online Corrections
Policies Vary Widely

To Fix or Not to Fix: Online Corrections
Policies Vary Widely 07/28/2004 08:11 PM
Online Journalism Review Jul 29 2004 0:49AM GMT

Create cross-platform RAW color
corrections in Photoshop

Create cross-platform RAW color
corrections in Photoshop 03/17/2005 02:56 AM
I am an avid photographer and have a Canon 10D camera. I shoot in only RAW data mode, because the picture quality is so much better. After shooting about 140 photos one weekend, I color corrected them all on a PC. I proceeded...

Google Playing Catch Up; Corrections for
Stefanie Olsen

Google Playing Catch Up; Corrections for
Stefanie Olsen 06/17/2005 04:33 PM
So I'm reading Google readying Web-only video search over on ZDNet and am struck by a few things. First off, this "web-only" moniker is a bit odd. I read the whole article and was still left not entirely sure what "web-only" really means. The word "only" appears only twice on the first page: once in the headline and once in the lead paragraph. Later on, I read this: The first stage of the video search engine will put Google on...

Deadline for Submitting Mozilla Firefox
'New York Times' Advert Corrections
Extended

Deadline for Submitting Mozilla Firefox
'New York Times' Advert Corrections
Extended 12/22/2004 01:21 AM

Attendee Information Manager™:
Dramatically Enhanced Client Management
for Community Corrections, Drug Courts,
Reenty, Probation and Parole

Attendee Information Manager™:
Dramatically Enhanced Client Management
for Community Corrections, Drug Courts,
Reenty, Probation and Parole 06/14/2004 03:36 AM
Building upon its leadership position in the community corrections software market, Sageful Corporation today announced the latest release of Attendee Information Manager. Attendee Information Manager version 6.0 is a comprehensive solution for community corrections, drug courts, reentry programs, probation, and parole that: offers 360 degree case managementTM; manages drug test specimens, results, and schedules; generates regulatory and analytical reports; automatically alerts responsible parties when critical events occur; creates class/individual schedules and takes attendance; records iron-clad chain-of-custody evidence; and more. [PRWEB Jun 14, 2004]

Miscellaneous Updates/Corrections,
Several of Which Aren’t
Substantial Enough to Constitute a Full
Article by Themselves, but Which Were
Assembled Together Mainly as an Excuse
to Use This Preposterously Long Title

Miscellaneous Updates/Corrections,
Several of Which Aren’t
Substantial Enough to Constitute a Full
Article by Themselves, but Which Were
Assembled Together Mainly as an Excuse
to Use This Preposterously Long Title 02/01/2005 09:03 PM

Follow-ups related to Software Update advice, the cost-per-megabyte of Apple hardware, and Apple’s other new “dashboard”.

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