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, […]
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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 […]
Facebook quitters: get a grip.
By Frank Moher As those of you with way too little to worry about may know, May 31st is Quit Facebook Day. This is a Canadian initiative, once again proving that, while we of the North may not have the entrepreneurial mojo to create much, we sure know how to get all indignant once somebody […]
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, […]
No alternative to Facebook. . .Yet.
Personal web pages started for the most part at universities, because students and profs all had accounts, so why not? Then the internet opened up to mortals, and a lot of them put up web sites, though often on their own dime. Then along came Geocities, which provided free hosting for people’s web sites. And […]
Blippy: too much information
By Mark Evans Confession: I’m a social media junkie – an enthusiastic blogger, active Twitter user, reluctant member of the ever-growing Facebook empire, and YouTube watcher. I like to share my thoughts and interesting content and online services. The chances, however, of me using Blippy are zero, nil, nadda, nunca. Why anyone would give a […]
Twitter’s vicious circle
By Mark Evans An open letter to Biz Stone, co-founder, Twitter: Dear Biz, I’m sure you appreciate the intense, burning interest that people have in how Twitter is going to make money. After all, you’ve got more than 50 million users, which has caused the monetization buzz to get more increasingly feverish the more popular […]
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 […]
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, […]
Nasty Old People Nice
By Eric Pettifor I just finished watching a new film out of Sweden titled Nasty Old People. I downloaded it off the internet with my trusty bittorrent client. Very rarely will I see a film in a cinema that I haven’t previewed this way. Would I shell out to see Nasty Old People on the […]
