more production and wider distribution of new editorial/creative material, not just help copyright holders to cash in. Declan McCullagh reports that first principles are being lost. From Wired News.
Archives for April 2000
The designers at work
do like to work with me, notwithstanding my putting my grubby mitts on their monitor screens. Not being a designer myself, I suggest, only, I don’t tell. I rely on their expertise.
Designer (by ICQ): Michael, how’s this mockup look?
Me: OK – I’ll come to your desk.
I go to his/her desk.
Designer: So I think I’ve added everything we need – what do you think?
Me: It’s a great start. But what do you think about moving this [smooshes finger on monitor, pointing] over here [smooshes finger on monitor, pointing], making that [smooshes finger on monitor, pointing] more curvy; ditching this [smooshes finger on monitor, pointing] frame entirely, and making…
Stricken look on Designer’s face.
Me: Oh. Sorry. I just got fingerprints all over your monitor, didn’t I? Oops.
[inspired by yesterday’s Harrumph! entry.]
Ack!
Busy busy busy today. But I found this and had to mention it: The Dr Seuss Purity Test.
Have you done it in the car?
Have you simply gone too far?
Have you done it on the beach?
Have you done it with the teach?
Wanna job?
McGill is trying to fill a chair in Ethics, Media, and Communications. Hmmm. For the first time I may have a twinge of regret that I didn’t do a PhD.
Chipping away:
a US federal appeals court has overturned a previous ruling and found that source code enjoys First Amendment protection. Of course this means that it is protected speech – which means that certain Crypto regs aren’t constitutional. Story via Wired News.
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