Tag Archives: commerce
The Tale of The Rights to The Picture of The Green Man, and a quiet word or two about Technorati
This image — fine as it is — nevertheless is posted here because there is a most interesting story hangs upon it. The story belongs to the maker of the image, and it’s on onionbagblog. Definitely read it, and while … more…
links for 2006-12-09: songs, walking, recipes, wifi, commerce
Index of Songs humungous collection of classic songs, with chords and lyrics (via J-Walk) (tags: Chords Guitar Music lyrics) Will Self – Walk – Kennedy Airport – Manhattan – Report – New York Times “People don’t know where they are … more…
Simply Wrong
Mick Hucknall attempts to argue in the Guardian that copyright is socialist (yeah?), and seeks to justify its extension (yeah?!???) — and predictably goes down in a hail of bullets. For long-standing personal reasons, I am more inclined to cut … more…
Island of Flowers
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. Ends? No. Island of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the … more…
Second-hand Daylight
A solar panel in the lid of the jar is connected to some rechargeable batteries inside the jar. Place the jar in direct sunlight during the day (on your window sill or in the garden does the job just fine) … more…
March of the Robo-Bloggers
The cover story, no less, of the New Statesman – Bloggers for hire lets us know that The days of genuine “citizen-generated” media may be numbered. Suddenly big business is all over the blogosphere, paying armies of willing recruits to … more…
Tech shops in the real world
Such has been my state of distraction that a blogworthy thought that occured to me a full ten days ago hasn’t yet made it into the blog. It was only because it cropped up in conversation in the pub last … more…
The Death Of The Internet (yeah, again)
The Internet’s promise as a new medium — where text, audio, video and data can be freely exchanged — is under attack by the corporations that control the public’s access to the ‘Net, as they see opportunities to monitor and … more…
Scams, frauds and con tricks
Theresa Nielsen Hayden of Making Light blog has clearly been doing a lot of thinking about con tricks, frauds and scams lately. She’s posted an overview of the topic yesterday, in which she observes: These scams take the forms they … more…