20.1.2006
Lawrence Lessig has an innovative approach to the continuation of his own work: ”The aim of this page is to build a collection of content that criticizes my work. I’ve mapped the chapters of Free Culture, but feel free to add any other work you’d like. Also, if there is stuff that adds support, of course that can be added. But please keep it separate from the criticism. My aim is to create a simple source for “the other side of the story.””
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17.1.2006
From Barry Fox’s column in New Scientist, on weird and wonderful patent applications: This week’s find is The cellphone distress beacon, registered by Nokia:
“A cameraphone for anyone who fears being abducted has been devised by Nokia. It pretends to be off while actually sending an emergency alert, complete with pictures, sound and GPS location.” (via Picturephoning)
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13.1.2006
Definitely the best blonde joke ever ….
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Mobile phone users are more interested in listening to digital radio through their handsets than watching mobile television services, according to research unveiled yesterday, and are only willing to pay about £5 a month for the privilege of catching up with their favourite shows on a phone’s small screen. (Guardian)
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8.1.2006
BBC: 2005 was arguably the year citizens really started to do it for themselves. Raising mobiles aloft, they did not just talk and text, they snapped, shared and reported the world around them.
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4.1.2006
Imagine watching “Married … With Children” without Frank Sinatra crooning the recognizable theme song. Ponder a pivotal moment in “Quantum Leap” forever altered because its requisite Ray Charles tune has been replaced. Consider revisiting an episode of “The Muppet Show,” only to find that one’s favorite musical number has been excised.
As far-fetched as these scenarios might sound, they are becoming a reality for vintage TV shows reissued on DVD. Licensing music for older programs is as pricey as obtaining tunes for new series, and the issue is forcing studios to make radical changes in order to feed the growing demand for TV product in the home-entertainment arena. (The Hollywood Reporter, via Lessig.org)
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retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch, made by Christian Langreiter.
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3.1.2006
Why the media can’t get Wikipedia right: Stuck in its old model, the media get the story backwards.
When the mainstream media addressed the John Seigenthaler Sr. affair — he’s the respected journalist who wrote an op-ed in USAToday complaining that slanderously wrong information about him was in Wikipedia for four months — the subtext couldn’t be clearer: The media were implicitly contrasting Wikipedia’s credibility to their own. Ironically, the some of the media got the story fundamentally wrong, in tone and sometimes in substance.
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