Sorry, Rupert, I already have Twitter
By Frank Moher
The Times shut down its old website on Tuesday and started directing all traffic to two new ones: thetimes.co.uk and thesundaytimes.co.uk. These are the ones that they propose, at sometime in the indeterminate future, to start charging for.
I was interested to see how Rupert Murdoch, wily media titan that he is, intended to [...]
Don’t Copy That Flop
By Eric Pettifor
Q: How difficult would it be for the copyright holder of a film to get the IP addresses of people sharing that film over bittorrent?
A: Easy as pie. Here’s a portion of a screen capture from my bittorrent client, ktorrent, showing the ip addresses of people sharing a popular file on my [...]
Fanfiction: flattery or thievery?
By Rachel Krueger
Diana Gabaldon either needs to stop writing such effortlessly good historical fiction, or she needs to keep her ignorant viewpoints on fan fiction to herself, because I am having trouble reconciling my shameless adoration of her Outlander series with my urge to kill her blog with fire.
Ditto goes for George Double-R Martin, whose Song [...]
The Write Huff
By Rachel Krueger
An infinite number of bloggers on an infinite number of netbooks blathering for a handful of years have produced an entirely new face for marketing. Whereas widely-spread opinions could once only be held by those with credentials, now anyone with dial-up can wax judgmental about any old thing. And it’s driving some people [...]
What would Jesus do (if he were on a website and it had ads)?
By Eric Pettifor
J.D. Frazer’s book Money for Content and Your Clicks for Free is more interesting for the insight it provides into the business side of the online comic strip User Friendly than as a putative how-to book. (Frazer has written User Friendly under the pen name Illiad since 1997.) As a how-to book, its [...]
