Cheap solutions are not necessarily the best solutions especially when the problem trying to be solved is mired in the complexity of the human condition. I refer to all of these shenanigans going on with News Corp. The general population has a right to be angry about what has been going on. However the rash […]
Read More →One of the most back-asswards aspects of democratic systems is the legal system. Especially when dealing with issues related to intellectual property and copyright. Most everyone is familiar with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and how big media (record labels, film, and print) use this device in order to strong arm people who are simply […]
Read More →It is weird that certain events seem to co-inside with each other to prove a point. This morning on QÂ Jian Ghomeshi was talking with Sri Lankan-British-American musician M.I.A. in part about censorship and the commercial viability of alternative artists to get records published in an internet age. As part of the conversation it was mentioned […]
Read More →There is currently a few people in this world who seem to feel that they need to establish rules of conducts and norms on the rest of us to the exclusion of the social trends that are going on around them. While I can’t speak to individual cases, it would seem to me that in […]
Read More →I just recently came across a posting by Dusan Writer (11.02.07)Â in which he was talking about real death, avatar death and the absence of symbols in the passage of people within virtual spaces. As part of this however he brings up an interesting prospect on the nature of being virtual. Dusan wrote “Many of us […]
Read More →Ah yes – after a few weeks of doing the holidaze thing I finally came back to check on comments and to make a new blog post and what do my wondering eyes do appear but 550 spam messages awaiting moderation. Note to Spammers: What part of ALL COMMENTS ARE MODERATED are you failing to […]
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