Perceptions

I find it really interesting hearing people’s thoughts on copyright, legality and entitlement. The red is me.
[03/01 00:56:51] limewire has free music
[03/01 00:57:05] limewire’s illegal
[03/01 00:57:37] last fm is doing exactly the same as limewire so technically it should b too
[03/01 00:57:54] except that they pay the artists… :)
[03/01 00:58:32] theres 1 positve
To summarise the [...]

Posted at 2:38 on January 3rd 2009, tagged as , , , , with no comments yet

IWF Reverse Wikipedia Ban Decision

By way of an update to my earlier post, The Guardian reported late on Tuesday that the Internet Watch Foundation have decided to reverse "its ban on a Wikipedia page and image of a record album cover showing a young nude girl".
This apparently "unprecedented move" (of what, jackasses changing their mind when they’re clearly wrong?) [...]

Posted at 20:32 on December 11th 2008, tagged as , , , , , with no comments yet

The IWF

Here’s the deal, if you haven’t heard this blow up in the last couple of days. It first kicked off around midday on the 5th December when it was discovered on Wikipedia that all users in the UK were being passed through a transparent proxy; allowing content to be filtered, in this case the Virgin [...]

Posted at 15:28 on December 8th 2008, tagged as , , , , , with 2 comments

Digg Abuse

You’ll never guess what the email address associated with this account is…

abuse@digg.com

Posted at 15:23 on December 7th 2008, tagged as , , , with no comments yet

Neat UI Features: Break.com

Cool little feature that I believe is unique to Break’s video service – in that I haven’t seen it anywhere else yet.

Every video has a “play this next” ticker that scrolls through related videos while the current one is playing. On hover, it displays a preview of the related video and once clicked it changes [...]

Posted at 22:43 on November 30th 2008, tagged as , , , with 2 comments

Other People’s Data

Here’s a question I’d like to throw out to the crowd: what am I supposed to do if I want to keep track of things that other people have uploaded to the web – in short, how do I track other people’s data?
Let me give an example to help explain: I’m at the Future of [...]

Posted at 2:13 on November 15th 2008, tagged as , , , , , with 4 comments