the trials and tribulations of Napster, but there’s another copyright story that’s just as important, and in many ways is the flip side of the coin. Freelancers’ rights have been drastically eroded over the past several years as big publications have drooled over the record labels’ “work for hire” contracts with their bands and have tried to implement the same for writers. Wired News is reporting on Featurewell.com, who have joined the issue on behalf of freelance writers.
I’m sure that
Ms. Batista is a fine journalist and all, but this article on Hotmail in Wired News is, well, not news in any way that I can figure. When exactly has Hotmail not been flaky as hell? What is Wired being reduced to?
When I got home
from the office tonight I decided to rearrange some shelves and came across my favourite article ever from good old Wired Mag: Mother Earth Mother Board by Neal Stephenson. Basically it was a really long story about a cable; an undersea cable. Stephenson described it like so: “FLAG, a fiber-optic cable now being built from England to Japan, is a skinny little cuss (about an inch in diameter), but it is 28,000 kilometers long, which is long even compared to really big things like the planet Earth. When it is finished in September 1997, it arguably will be the longest engineering project in history.”
There’s a new
editorial co-production between Feed and Wired News called the FEED Drugs Issue. A couple interesting things – first, it’s pretty cool to see two sites cooperating like this. Second, the design is interesting in that they lay out the whole section in advance, and will evidently make the article titles on the left hot as the week goes on.
I saw the most
ridiculous little tidbit in Wired News today: GE to Dot-Coms: ‘Game Over’. Uh, right. If dot-coms get into trouble it will be mostly of their own making (lame business plans, no biz plans, high costs, egomania, etc.) not cause GE decided to jump in.
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