Jason Calcanais posted on twitter the question “Question of the day: Can you copyright your Twitter stream? Can anyone republish anyone’s twitter stream? Thoughts?” It is an interesting idea, how ephemeral is 140 words or less, and if they are pulled and reproduced like in the image below, who owns what? Does it in the longer run really matter?
One of the reasons that this is a good question, is that with passage of the Pro-IP act, the way that the DMCA has been subverted for illegal take... Read Full Story
It is understandable that the estate of Terry Nation and the BBC would be busy asserting their copyright ownership of the Dalek name, and likeness of the critters in Doctor Who, what is sad is that a popular web site that featured hand made crafted soft fuzzy needlepoint and crochet reproductions of Doctor Who Characters would be pulled off the Internet.
The story centers around the web site, Mazzmatazz, who is a knitting, needlepoint, crochet, photography kind of person. Mazz see’s... Read Full Story
If you have ever tooled around archive.org it has some of the most fascinating materials that are available to you to watch. We ran into this video featuring Guy Kawasaki from 1996 and just about fell over laughing. You can walk away from this thinking that Guy is one of the smartest kids on the block, you can also wonder why we are dealing with the same issues 12 years later.
The video covers different ways to manage the glut of information showing up on computers and other storage... Read Full Story
Kai Roer wrote a great blog entry about a 14 year old girl, a web cam, the consequences like having to move out of town once the video hit the Internet, then went back and did some analysis of his blog traffic to find out that the entry he wrote was his most popular page.
His conclusion:
There are a ton of perverts out there
There are a lot of teens out there in a similar circumstance
Either way it does not bode well if those are the only two options, or a combination thereof.
But... Read Full Story
Talked to my hosting company yesterday about the IIS error code 500’s that just about everyone has been seeing for a couple of weeks, and it ended up being fairly interesting in how they are managing their “blogging platform” in relationship to their other platforms.
They ended up encapsulating the available CPU and Memory pool in order to keep their wordpress bloggers from using too many resources on the windows servers. The context of the IIS server was that the time outs for allowing the... Read Full Story
Following locutus' thoughts on supporting Linux is more valuable to a company than supporting windows, I ran a quick salary survey at indeed.com to see how it stacks up in the heart of Redmond, using Microsoft's zip code. Read Full Story
If you are wondering just how hackers are working their way into your back end databases, Dark Reading has a list of the top six database hacks being used in the field today. Read Full Story
CityU in Bellevue is looking for high quality instructors for their BS in Information Systems. It has a unique Web 2.0 flavor. The program launches in Fall of 2008, and they are looking for world class programmers, project managers, operations folks to teach at their school.
Adjunct Faculty School of Management (Bachelor of Science – Information Systems)
Wanting to promote other professionals who have a passion for computer science who could use your subject matter expertise? Are you... Read Full Story
