Tuesday, September 20, 2011
This is a melancholy topic for me. There was a time when my Delicious network feed was the first site I looked at in the morning, my favorite source of news and serendipitous new knowledge, and the primary repository for my short-form writing. Now I barely ever use it. I started out using Delicious for [...]
Filed in Internet, Social Media, Writing
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Also tagged bookmarking, delicious, facebook, Internet, linkedin, quora, Social Media, tumblr, twitter, Writing, yahoo
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
It’s been an emotional week for me and my fellow Delicious lovers. The hysteria began with a slide leaked from an internal presentation at Yahoo, Delicious’ corporate parent, saying the service was among the ones slated to be “sunsetted.” After Techcrunch published the slide, the web lit up with the rumor that Delicious would be [...]
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Also tagged community, copyright, delicious, emergence, linkedin, opensource, pinboard, Social Media, social networks, yahoo
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Monday, November 23, 2009
One of the biggest copyright failures of copyright law ever is the The Verve’s song “Bitter Sweet Symphony.” The distinctive string sample comes from an orchestral arrangement of “The Last Time” by The Rolling Stones. Doesn’t sound much like the Verve, does it? Here’s the Andrew Oldham Orchestra‘s version, the sample will jump right out [...]
Filed in Autobio, Composition, Copyright and Authorship, Music, Music Business, Sampling
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Also tagged allen klein, andrew oldham, bitter sweet symphony, copyright, digging the crates, hip-hop, james brown, law, originality, pop, remixes, revival revival, richard ashcroft, rock, rolling stones, Sampling, staples singers, the verve, uk
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Biz Markie. Who doesn’t love him? Our broken intellectual property system, that’s who.
Filed in Composition, Copyright and Authorship, Key Musicians, Music, Music Business, Sampling
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Also tagged biz markie, copyright, criminal justice, digging the crates, gilbert o'sullivan, hip-hop, looping, memes, Music, remixes, Sampling
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When you learned division in school, the teacher probably brushed off the issue of dividing by zero in one sentence: you can’t do it, moving on. You might feel like you got shortchanged by that explanation. Why not? What happens when you divide by zero?
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
When the computer crashes, it seems like it’s frozen. Actually, it’s still working as fast as usual. It only appears to be stuck because it isn’t responding to you. The computer is too busy to take input because it’s in a loop, executing the same short list of instructions over and over. Computers have become [...]