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- Creative Commons, the Live Web, and quickie divorce info centers
- Dennis Kennedy pointed me to Shelley Powers, who pointed me in turn to Slashdot and Professor Lessig. All concern a lawsuit pending in Dallas, TX against Virgin Mobile and Creative Commons concerning Virgin's advertising use of a minor's picture posted by the girl's youth counselor to Flickr under a...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Web, Flickr, Shelley, Litigation, Business Operations, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- iToones read his wife's mind
- From Shelley at the Burningbird blog, comes an entry about the spyware-esque MiniStore in Apple's iTunes (that we blogged about here, yesterday): Oh my Aunt Matilda’s bunions. Consider with me, if you please, a scenario: You open iTunes. You double click...
- Tags: Apple iTunes, iToones, Shelley
- Blog posts 2006-01-13
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- UFO News (gadget)
- Direct links to George Noory of Coast to Coast Am reaching 20 million listeners each night, Jeff Rense his radio show reaches 15 million listeners each night and 78 of the top UFO, Alien abduction, Cattle mutilation and Crop circle researchers on this planet starting with Mar Allin, Colin Andrews,...
- Tags: Horn, Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-04-16
- Uh-oh: Oprah's streamed New Earth Event runs short on bandwidth
- Uh-oh: Oprah's streamed New Earth Event runs short on bandwidthJust another instance of BAD PLANNINGShame on these guys for not knowing that when you attach the name "oprah" to an event... you get slammed. Just look at obama!242Gb is a lot of bandwidth though.. they should of done streaming...
- Tags: Oprah Winfrey, bandwidth, Uh-oh, New Earth Event
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Can a no-star movie move the stem cell debate?
- An Indian-born doctor is trying to move the stem cell debate using a movie without stars. Hope, now in post-production, was written by Shelley Chawla, 42, who now lives in Topeka. His father, L.S. Chawla, was once vice-chancellor of the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences in...
- Tags: Cure, Movie, Stem-cell, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Hacking for profit. SEO techniques.
- I am traveling for the next two weeks. Today I write from the banks of the Thames in Marlow, England, a town that inspires writing if Jerome K. Jerome and Mary Shelley are any indication. Hackers have attacked Al Gore's website, but in an unusual...
- Tags: Technique, Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Site, Hacking, Blogging, Security, Internet, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Death 2.0
- The recent and unexpected passing of my grandmother (she was the only 98-year-old I've known who could, and did, blindside hundreds with her death) opened my eyes to the fact that death in 2007 has become an online, interactive experience. The mortuary partnered with MeM.com to provide an "Everlasting...
- Tags: Death, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- Web 2.0 Summit - reflections after a trans-Atlantic flight and a day off!
- Last week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was pretty intense, all things considered. It's therefore lucky that this week is the Half Term school holiday in this particular corner of the UK, and peppered with days off to do various non-work things. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Facebook, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Customize Microsoft Windows Vista
- Windows Vista provides many customization options that you can use to personalize your system. Some are practical (e.g. switching mouse buttons for left-handers or altering the resolution of your desktop), while others are purely personal (e.g. changing alert sounds or desktop colors). In this chapter download from Absolute Beginner's Guide...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Chapter Coverage, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
- Book chapters 2007-07-06
- Counter point to "Analysis: Can a Customer Be Too Small For Virtualization?"
- Virtualization technology is just that, a technology. An organizations requirements and budget must be considered before a specific technology is selected. A technological choice that is perfect for the needs of one organization might just be the wrong choice for another. That being said, Small to Medium Businesses SMB...
- Tags: virtual processing software, virtual machine software, virtualization, virtual storage software, virtual access software, clustering software
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Conquer chaos: Manage files and folders effectively within your Vista system
- As you work with your computer creating more and more documents, you quickly learn that in order to stay productive, you need to keep your information organized so you can easily find the folder or file you want when you want it. In this sample chapter from ...
- Tags: Folder, Microsoft Windows Vista, Chapter Coverage, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Book chapters 2007-03-13
- Set up and configure your Windows Vista system for Internet access
- In this sample chapter from Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Windows Vista, identify the hardware and software you need to access the Internet for e-mail and browse the Web on a Windows Vista system. Screenshots and step-by-step explanations walk you through various setup and configuration processes. ...
- Tags: Internet Access, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
- Book chapters 2007-02-06
- Manage files in Windows Vista
- The more you work with your computer, the more files you add. Eventually your computer is cluttered with a seemingly overwhelming number of files. Helping you manage and work with all these files is a key function of your computer's operating system. In this sample chapter from ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, File, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Book chapters 2007-01-23
- An odd E-voting bit
- Most of the discussion about e-voting centers on trust and the fact that evoting systems are generally a lot easier to abuse than to audit - but here's something from Robert Novak's political gossip column showing that bad interface design can unintentionally affect an election outcome: Selection...
- Tags: voter, Tom DeLay
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- License To Nil
- Does syndicating material (i.e., via RSS or Atom) mean anything, in and of itself, from a legal standpoint? Does it alter existing copyright law, which in the U.S. says that all rights are reserved by default, without the publisher taking a single further step? Beyond...
- Tags: John Palfrey, Marty Schwimmer, RSS
- Blog posts 2006-08-27
- Dell CTO scores A on virtualization test
- If you ask me and maybe VMware president Diane Green, Dell CTO Kevin Kettler has got virtualization right. According to a News.com report by Stephen Shankland, yesterday, Kettler told a LinuxWorld Boston crowd:There are lot of players that have been entrenched in the virtualization market" that need to understand...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., VMware Inc., Xen
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- Web 2.0 and Semantic Web: Mars and Venus?
- Kendall Clark from XML.com posted an interesting article called Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web. In it he talks about a new technology called SPARQL, which is an RDF query language and protocol. It's apparently an SQL for the Semantic Web. Kendall's post proposes that Web 2.0 be "wrapped, morphed,...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Web, Semantic Web
- Blog posts 2005-09-18
- Is a fork inevitable?
- Regular readers of this space may remember Shelley Powers writing about doing a "fork" of Wordpress which runs this blog as part of her piece, No Ghost in the Machine. Forks happen all the time, she noted. " I can grab a snapshot of the code and go my own...
- Tags: Linux, fork
- Blog posts 2004-11-23
- No ghost in the machine
- Shelley Powers of Burningbird took what I wrote about RSS yesterday to heart, and offered some excellent rebuttal. In hopes of adding enlightenment and by way of apologizing to any readers who were offended yesterday here some highlights:Contrary to your assumption, open source code is not 'owned' by the commons....
- Tags: open source, Wordpress
- Blog posts 2004-11-18
- California to sue e-vote machine maker
- California to sue e-vote machine makerCookies in eVoting machinesDid you catch this:http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78Seems to me there is nothing to stop me writing voting machine software, so that if I tap five times in the top left corner the Democrat wins, if I tap five times in the right corner the Republican...
- Tags: E-voting, Tools & Techniques, Diebold Inc., John L. Ries, election official, e-vote
- Discussion threads 2004-09-08
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