by Rob Cottingham | Apr 30, 2006 | Copyright, Culture, Arts and Popcorn
Ianiv blogs about one of my pet peeves: DVDs that force you to sit through ads before you get to see the movie you paid them for. But with this DVD first you get a copyright notice, then a short clip about how bad it is to download movies (stop saying copyright... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 27, 2006 | Blogging, Politics
Gerard Kennedy and Maurizio Bevilacqua are, I’m happy to report, among the living. Bevilacqua was hanging out at the apparently un-Google-able maurizio.ca, and Kennedy’s site went live, as far as I can tell, today. Kennedy’s site is still a little... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 27, 2006 | Technology
And as you might expect from a lexicographer, he doesn’t mince words. Barrett recently issued an RFP to redesign his superb Doubled-Tongued Word Wrestler Dictionary (a must-read for anyone who loves language, by the way). Apparently, a disproportionate number of... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 26, 2006 | Technology
Maybe not all by my lonesome. But about two weeks ago, I called the TiVo support line, fed up with a months-long problem where every single TiVo show we recorded was being flagged for timed deletion: one week was the longest we could keep anything, and any show we... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 26, 2006 | Online Community, Politics
Jane Jacobs is known for her vision of vibrant, liveable cities. But as Alex posts at Civic Minded, her prescription for a viable city is also the recipe for a thriving online community. And Alex has a terrific suggestion for one way to remember her: These still-early...
