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Laserjet Printers Accused of File Sharing, Piracy

Just stumbled across this one, which brightened up my day : “A new study from the University of Washington suggests that media industry trade groups are using flawed tactics in their investigations of users who violate copyrights on peer-to-peer file sharing networks. …[University of Washington] researchers rigged the software agents to implicate three laserjet printers, [...]

Piracy? Walk the Plank, Guys

Okay, this is outrageous. International Talk Like a Pirate Day is, well, let’s not exaggerate or anything, but maybe Yom Kippur is more holy. It’s the kind of thing that keeps us sane, and makes life worth living, day after drudging day. So using it to make headlines about copyright “piracy” is just too much. [...]

Erwin Panofsky, Online Publishing, and Serendipity/Adjacency

  Just to be clear from the outset Erwin Panofsky, a great art historian and writer of the last century, is quite dead and not currently publishing anything online–although you can find his published works online.   I have invoked his name at the outset because, a long time ago, I wrote my senior thesis in [...]

StarCAVE

Oooh, ahh, eee…..http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1383

MCN 2008 Conference Registration is Open

    LET’S DO I.T. RIGHT!  [www.mcn.edu/conferences] 36th Annual MCN Conference November 12th -15th, 2008 Washington, DC   Save now! The Early Bird Registration Deadline is September 27, 2008. http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=888   MCN Members Earlybird: $425.00 | Regular: $475.00 Non-Members Earlybird: $500.00 | Regular: $550.00 Emerging Professional/Student Members Earlybird: $200.00 | Regular: $250.00 To qualify for [...]

Tatetastic

I’ve just come back from a two-day stint at the Tate Modern attending a Handheld Conference: From Audiotours to iPhones. The format was a one-day workshop of invitees (lah di dah) followed by a one-day syposium open to all. From the promotional blurb: Are museums ready to play in the digital age? Rapid advances in [...]

Best practices: the truth, revealed

Economical with the Truth

You may have seen the various postings on a new survey just released: International Survey of Library and Museum Digitisation Projects by the Primary Research Group. It is slightly more international than the MLB’s World Series, but I guess even one foreign institution would makes it so. Its an interesting survey, but if you’re a [...]

McCain campaign sued for copyright infringement.

There’s something for everyone in this Presidential campaign. Now McCain is being sued for copyright infringement. “Last week, Jackson Browne’s management began receiving emails from people who wondered why the legendary singer and songwriter — an Obama supporter who doesn’t allow his songs to be used in advertisements of any kind — would permit his [...]

Reading the fine print

The latest Google debacle du jour didn’t last long. But it was meaningful. It turns out there are people (like us?) out there who actually read the Terms of Service on nifty little things like a new browser release, i.e. Google’s Chrome. I only wonder with what they’ve fortified themselves before sitting down to the [...]