Lisuebie/internet

"The "new math" of fair use is no longer balancing benefit of the author against that of the public, but rather of the economic benefit to the author versus that of the copier. This math is far more dynamic, and I think we can expect more isolated, local or sectoral lawsuits against the search and clipping services against a backdrop of a vast majority of content providers who benefit too much from the traffic these services provide to dare to rock the boat."

interesting right up to the requirement

"You must have written permission to use the name or picture of any person mentioned in the content you put on the eSnips site."

which they list under their "Terms of Use", "Copyright" #1.

Woah. Hard to accomodate. Do you suppose that the New York Times has written permission from all the people whose pictures they print on their website?

using google daily and still there is stuff to learn. Cool, man.

The blog post proposes that it should be ok to make ad money on someone else's content as long as in the course of the matter you funnel more consumers in the direction of the original poster.

The discussion in the comments is mostly coherent and quite interesting, even if not conclusive.

I find my self slowing migrating to Google. Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Notebook, Google Desktop. I play on a desktop and a laptop- these applications let me not worry about where I put in the information- I can get at it even from my kid's school (if I can remember my password...)

so the point is- web based applications are beginning to become realistic.

A very simple blogging platform (thanks Kee-Ari for the term). I heard about on "Inside the Net" podcast, where one of the creators said she wanted something easy enough for her mother to use. That they've done. It's warm and cuddly, has a nice community and is going to be opened to the general public on October 26th according to their news. If you are in a hurry, I, too have invites, let me know.

I am trying it out in an attempt to get my family active. Haven't had a lot of success. If you want to see my stuff go- lisuebie.vox.com [lisuebie.vox.com]

One annoyance is that you can't post links. So I can't put the SU button on there, or I most certainly would. They are trying to keep it all simple as possible, but maybe someday....

Takes the banner ads off of the contact bar and message window. You can still see ads on the main icq, so they get a bit of opportunity to sell you things.

Very nice tool.

Stardust- the proof-of-concept virus. What a concept!

OpenOffice has hit the bigtime. And so now it, too, becomes a target for the bad guys. Be interesting to see how they deal with it.