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[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 17, 2008 by admin in Politics, Popular Media
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Dick Cheney explains why we shouldn’t invade Iraq.
Dick Cheney explains why, if the U.S. had continued to Baghdad in the first Gulf War, there “…would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq…” and how it would have been “…a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq…”
Bloggers to Associated Press: “You can’t fire me, I quit!”
[ Comments Off ]Posted on June 17, 2008 by admin in Popular Media, Technology
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Bloggers boycott Associated Press for being foolishly selfish buttheads.
Apparently the Associated Press is setting guidelines for how bloggers can repurpose their content (ironically, you’ll need a New York Times log-in to read that link). This has some bloggers in a bit of a tizzy. Enough of a tizzy, in fact, that some bloggers are trying to start a boycott and petition the AP. It all started with DMCA takedowns filed against Drudge Retort . Am I getting obscure enough here for you? Let me sum it up for you quickly: basically, bloggers will use excerpts from AP articles and then link to the article. The problem (from the AP’s point of view) is that this constitutes “hot news” misappropriation, and is a violation of copyright law. Patently absurd, in my opinion, and I don’t even rely on AP news feeds directly for content. It smacks of the continuing tendency of large, established organizations (the RIAA & MPAA spring to mind) that are used to monopolizing an industry suddenly figuring out that those weirdos on the intra-nets are actually having an impact on life, commerce, and the world in general. I’m not actually supporting the boycott, but I found it amusing that the same week I bought the domain dissociatedpress.com for personal & parody usage, Read the rest of this entry »