Posted in General, Blog, workfriendly on Dec 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Apologies to anybody that got a 404-not-found on my last post. It seems that sticking the word ‘blog’ in the subject causes the post permalink to fail on my wordpress setup. No idea why (and no time to investigate at the moment!) - I’ve fixed the previous post by hacking the permalink directly.
(maybe it’s the […]
Posted in workfriendly, blogging on Dec 21st, 2006 3 Comments »
As somebody who prizes brevity and usually starts with long blog posts and tries to distill them down into palatable chunks I raised an eyebrow at Yegge’s post on the subject. Yegge advocates embracing the verbose.
I could use a good marketing name for this longer-is-better phenomenon too. The synopsis is that I think taking the […]
Posted in Semantic Web, tagtriples, ArtificialIntelligence, ai on Dec 19th, 2006 6 Comments »
I haven’t said anything much about semantic web stuff for a while as I’ve been occupied with other things. However Jim Hendler’s ‘Tales from the Dark Side’ piece in IEEE Intelligent Systems reawoke an old interest. In short: I still think the RDF people have got it wrong with URIs, and so far nobody’s convinced […]
Posted in General, workfriendly, DRM on Dec 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Tom Coates comments on the review, commissioned by Gordon Brown to look at intellectual property rights in the UK:
if I’m reading it correctly, it contains recommendations that individuals should have the right to make private copies of their music, that copyright terms should not be extended and that there should be a general provision that […]
Posted in General, workfriendly, DRM on Dec 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Nick Carr’s thesis is:
- IPod music sales plateaued in Q1 this year
- so apple starts losing it’s leverage with music companies
- but music companies will want to sell music that plays on IPods
- so unprotected mp3s seems the way to go
But won’t this lead to rampant piracy?
No. Because there’s already rampant illegal copying. Most […]
