Lawrence Lessig reports that Illinois Senate candidate Jack Ryan has someone following and videotaping his opponent around the clock. Prof Lessig suggests that Ryan doesn’t understand the digital age; I would suggest that he understands it all too well.
Back, sort of.
I was away visiting family in Connecticut over the long weekend, and lots has happened while I was gone. Being busy at work and unable to update regularly, here are some apropos pointers.
- As of Sunday, we’re in a general election campaign in Canada.
- The CBS News program 60 Minutes continued to press on Iraq, this time with a story on General Anthony Zinni, who says that the current course in Iraq is “headed over Niagara Falls.”
- Michael Moore won the Palme D’Or at Cannes over the weekend.
- Many are reporting that Rumsfeld has banned digital cameras and cam-phones in Iraq following the prison atrocities – or more specifically, the publication of photographic records of said atrocities. Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin, however, has looked into this in more depth, and apparently it’s not so.
Next from Google?
An article by John Markoff in the NY Times suggests that Google is about to introduce a as reported at Shatnerian, it seems that The Boss is thinking about playing a free show in Central Park this summer as a counterpoint to the Republican convention to be held in that city in early September. I wonder if this is true? Mena Trott of Six Apart has asked a question of the community of Movable Type users: How are you using the tool? My current setup is very simple, I have two authors – Nadia and myself – on three different MT-weblogs. There’s this main weblog, Nadia’s weblog, and another weblog called Words (which is drastically under-used at the moment). When I taught a class at McGill, I used my installation to do an entirely independent class website as well – one for each semester. Right now, I fit in under the personal license at US$70 (that’s over $100 to we Canadians), and I can live with that (barely). The full US$100 is out of the question, though – I find that very expensive. And when my class sites were up, I don’t know which terms I would have fallen under. The other issue I worry about is in terms of other projects that I do from time to time. At the moment, for instance, I have been laying the groundwork for a personal project that would involve at least 6-12 authors in one website at another domain. It would be non-commercial (though it would be indistinguishable from a commercial site), but I don’t think I’d pay US$150 plus hosting fees (in addition to a LOT of my time) for such a project. And if I have to ask contributors (who would be doing it for fun) to pay me US$10 each for the privilege, well, it’s doubtful anyone would do that. As far as I am concerned, the current licensing terms make it difficult if not impossible to use MT for a hobbyist publishing initiative, like a small ‘zine or something like that.Counter-programming:
How do you use MT?
