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Cory Doctorow on taming the trolls

Cory Doctorow on taming the trollsAttracting the trollsFirst let's define what a troll is. Basically it's someone who disagrees with you - they may be foaming at the mouth and raving about Win$ucks or Eunuchs (guilty ;-)) or be incapable of logical argument see Paul Murphy but essentially they...

Tags: Blogging, ZDNet Bloggers, Cory Doctorow, troll, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-15

Cory Doctorow on taming the trolls

Great, great post on the InformationWeek blog by Boing Boing founder, author, and deep thinker Cory Doctorow on how to deal with trolls. It turns out that nuclear science is a great metaphor for managing community and the secret lies in "twiddling the rods" in just the right fashion. Just...

Tags: Blogs

Blog posts 2007-05-15

AACS licensing authority censors Cory Doctorow's class blog

AACS licensing authority censors Cory Doctorow's class blogAACS is OWNEDAACS is OWNED or will be very soon. DRM is dying even before the format battle between BluRay and HD-DVD has begun. Hollywood has to start treating consumers with respect, not like an enemy.Viral campaign anybody?I think the better answer is...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, AACS, Doom9, digital-rights management, piracy, Cory Doctorow

Discussion threads 2007-05-01

AACS licensing authority censors Cory Doctorow's class blog

This is just so wrong on so many levels. The AACS licensing authority sends a legal threat to Cory Doctorow (blogger, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing) over a blog relating to a USC undergraduate class that hes been involved in teaching:I just censored Teque5s post about the AACS processing...

Tags: Blu-ray, DRM, HD-DVD, Legal, Links

Blog posts 2007-05-01

Cory Doctorow Gets Congressional Seal Of Approval

Cory Doctorow Gets Congressional Seal Of ApprovalIn other words, "We own it all."A form of corrosive capitalism. Where those that have all the leverage use it to their never-ending advantage. Where are our Congressional representatives? Bought by the industries they're supposed to regulate. To quote...

Tags: Network technology, IP, IP Issues, patent, Cory Doctorow

Discussion threads 2006-09-03

Cory Doctorow Gets Congressional Seal Of Approval

It's somewhat old news that that Cory Doctorow was named the first holder of USC's Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Public Diplomacy, but this week it became official in a signing ceremony and talk, available as an MP3. Cory is a creature of the...

Tags: Cory

Blog posts 2006-09-02

Additional Resources

LHC, Genomics and the era of massive data sets

The world won't end when the Large Hadron Collider makes its anticipated first collision of high-energy particles later this month, but it will produce an explosion of data. The LHC will produce as much data in a single day of experimentation as many scientists dealt with in a lifetime only...

Tags: Data, Data Set, Policies And Procedures, Benefits, Robots, Wiki, Strategy, Human Resources, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-11

EclipseCon 2008: Fake Steve Jobs, Microsoft, E4, and more

EclipseCon 2008 opens Monday at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara CA. The schedule for the week includes a trio of interesting keynote speakers, a ton of technical sessions, and a tinge of controversy over the future of Eclipse development. The first day will be...

Tags: Steve Jobs, EclipseCon, Microsoft Corp., Eclipse, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-03-16

Follow-up: Build-A-Bear says it will take privacy suggestions to heart

There were lots of reactions to my last post about Build-A-Bear luring kids and parents into divulging personal information they might otherwise, in other contexts, guard more closely. While some responses channeled Scott McNealy, most seemed to get that my beef was not with the fact of the data...

Tags: Information, Build-A-Bear, Privacy Policy, Upshot, E-mail, Online Communications, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-01-26

Harvesting data from children with cuddly creatures and cutesy keyboards

And you thought Beacon is was creepy. Yesterday I had my first experience at a Build-A-Bear Workshop store. Build-A-Bear, if you're not familiar with it, is a publicly traded company headquartered in St. Louis, MO, with some 350 retail outlets worldwide. ...

Tags: Kid, Keyboards, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-01-21

The shrinking planet and YouTube

Some kid in Australia is getting the kind of press that major movie studios would pay millions to acquire, all because he threw a party while his parents were out of town that got a "bit" out of hand. As a teenager, I threw parties when my parents were out...

Tags: Barrier, Australia, Movie, YouTube Inc., Party, Sovereignity, Globalization, Strategy, Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-01-16

What that RIAA/CD rip court brief really says

There's a lot of misinformation floating around the blogosphere about what exactly the (hiss, boo) Recording Industry Association of America is saying in a court brief about the very act of ripping your CDs, converting them to MP3s, and then storing them on your hard drive...

Tags: Hard Drive, P2P, RIAA, Keyphrase, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Larry Dignan loans me his Kindle

Larry Dignan loans me his Kindlemeanwhile....While you are waiting for the textbook capable Kindle you could try this for free: http://www.booksinmyphone.comThe provide public domain and creative commons works (doctorow? stross?) that you can download into your java enabled cell phone. The phone screen is small but within a few minutes...

Tags: phone screen, textbook, Larry Dignan

Discussion threads 2007-12-07

Facebook: Of the people but not for or by the people?

It's no wonder the Social Web--the Internet with the concept of people and relationships embedded in the fabric (what Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls the Giant Global Graph)--has become such a controversial topic. It's a kind of spontaneous, greedy gold rush for the social networks to accumulate members, exploit the social...

Tags: Facebook, MoveOn.org, Cory, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-27

Why McLuhan was right when it comes to attention

Through his always enriching podcast, I've heard Cory Doctorow give variations on his privacy talk at least five or six times over the last year. The most current iteration is available at Intel's/Josh Bancroft's BitStories. In responding to an audience question, Cory explains exactly why, when it comes...

Tags: Message, Liberty, Computer, Cory, Productivity, Podcasts, Internet, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-09-25

Apple: You're too dumb to make your own technology decisions

I was reading TechCrunch's coverage of regarding the roll-out of the iPhone in the UK, particularly the point where it says: ...O2 has fired up its network with the slower Edge technology (as against Europe's love affair with HSDPA) to accomodate the iPhone..... There is no 3G iPhone as...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Engineering, 3G, Apple Mac OS X, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-18

Lawgarithms Links for 8/13/07

Remember that between entries here you can keep up with the Live Web and other issues I'm spotting by subscribing to my Google Reader Starred Items. Among the links now playing:Two-word license agreement: "F--- YOU!", from Boing Boing by Cory DoctorowFair Use for YouTube & MySpace Users, from Slashdot...

Tags: Google Inc., BitTorrent, Google Reader, Blog, Lawgarithms, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-08-13

Lawgarithms Links for 7/20/07

Now that I'm smitten with keeping a link blog, I'll endeavor once a week or so to cull through it for things I think might be of particular interest to Lawgarithms readers. So, here we go. I'm curious whether you find such undertakings useful or not, so there's...

Tags: Social news, Social networking, Privacy, Patent, Live Web, Links, Licenses, Lawsuits, DRM, DMCA, Copyright, Collaboration, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-07-20

Where are the best SOA synergies now that Rogue Wave is independent?

Either today or tomorrow the completion of Battery Ventures' buyout of Rogue Wave Software will prompt some strategic thinking about where this high-performance C++ platform supplier best fits in.As a bit of background, Rogue Wave was a part of publicly traded Quovadx, which found itself in a bit of hot...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, SOA, Open Source, Java, Enterprise Java, Apache, .NET

Blog posts 2007-07-18

Attention you politics-hating coders, geeks: Ron Paul is NOT a friend of the Internet

Attention you politics-hating coders, geeks: Ron Paul is NOT a friend of the InternetStill not the Huffington PostTry sticking to technical issues and save your liberalism for moveon.com. This is a technical forum!Libertarians believe in less government.So to regulate the Web like you say, isn't necessarily good for the...

Tags: Regulations, Ron Paul, regulation, Internet

Discussion threads 2007-07-17