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Merlin Mann on Doing Creative Work

Some sound advice for creative people…

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Inhabitat » 15 Year Old Invents Algae-Powered Energy System

Inhabitat » 15 Year Old Invents Algae-Powered Energy System.

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“…don’t take my Kodachrome away.” « Flickr Blog

“They say all good things in life come to an end. Today we announced that Kodak will retire KODACHROME Film, concluding its 74-year run.”

via “…don’t take my Kodachrome away.” « Flickr Blog.

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What’s in a newspaper…2

Quantative analysis of the content in a newspaper is pretty boring, it’s also a lot of work and the results aren’t spectacular. For the latecomers, this is a series of entries about what’s actually in a newspaper as distinct from what the newspapers try to tell you as a reader. As we will see, it [...]

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DoD Training Manual: Protests are “Low-Level Terrorism” – Dennis Loo – Open Salon

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DoD Training Manual: Protests are “Low-Level Terrorism” – Dennis Loo – Open Salon.

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What’s in a newspaper?

So it occurred to me that with all the rhetoric currently floating around about the merits of newspapers and how vital they are to our western culture, it would be useful to actually do a bit of research. Now the relative merits of print versus online can be debated till the cows come in so [...]

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Michael Geist – Harvard Study Finds Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society

“Moreover, the authors’ canvass the literature on the effects of file sharing on music sales, confirming that the “results are decidedly mixed.””

A topical subject especially as the rhetoric coming from old media barons like Murdoch becomes more dogmatic. Copyright, like most laws, is firstly about protecting the privilege and position of the copyright owner. To [...]

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So what now?

First it was the net, then there were newsgroups. Does anyone remember newsgroups? What about IRC? Newsgroups, well they had …groups and IRC had channels, you could log in and post anonymously to you hearts content, lurking behind your “handle”. The original internet news may be slowly dying but have a look at any newsgroup [...]

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Fairfax fights back

A strange thing happened the other day, I spent a saturday morning sitting in the sun reading a weekend newspaper. The news wasn’t particularly interesting, lets face it, the majority of the “news” appears everywhere anyway and its either alarm over swine flu or the usual bizarre fixation with the state of the economy, [...]

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You can’t hide when you seek

Gordon Farrer offered this opinion the other day on the merits of Google.

It has become fashionable for the traditional media to bash Google. In various scenarios Google will ruin everything under the sun including all publishing as we know it, the movie industry and TV. And as we all know Google probably was complicit [...]

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