to the story about the ruling in the 2600 case. If you haven’t been following it, well, industry won. I can’t figure out how the guy who was moved, some might even say shaken, by Touretzky’s testimony turned around and dismissed it out of hand when it came time to rule. Sometimes I’m convinced that there are pod people who step in when real humans look like they’re going to do something against the wishes of big industry.
My friend Lyle Stewart
takes a look at the Philadelphia protests during the Republican Convention in his column this week. Lyle’s been working the protest beat for years now, and doing so very well at newspapers across North America, so he has an interesting perspective. The long view, maybe.
Since last week
, there have been several interesting articles that note the power of David Touretzky‘s testimony. The EFF noted it in their DVD Update [via Ed and Scripting News], Another take on it was published in a Wired News article explaining that the deCSS T-Shirt guys have been named defendants in the trial.
I don’t talk about
work at all in this space. Mostly a question of boundaries, really – I wouldn’t want anyone to mistake my personal ramblings for anything coming from the company (not that it’s a huge threat, but still). But I will say this – the transition from a very small company to a larger company is fascinating to watch, and to be involved in. As someone who’d never worked in an office, per se, before this job, I was always quite disdainful of bureaucracy and structure. Now, though, I’m learning the value in adding such structure, as long as it’s done well. And it’s actually pretty fun, trying to dream up ways of doing things with the creativity and vitality of the old days, but much more efficiently.
I’m very happy to state in public that my co-workers, all 130 of them, are among the smartest, most talented groups of people I’ve known. It’s quite amazing, actually.
I think a lot
of people will dismiss Steven Brill’s latest venture, Contentville. That’s a mistake though. I can’t exactly get traction on why this might work well – but there’s something in here worthy of some note. Maybe it’s just that Brill wants to grow the business carefully.
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