Archive for July, 2012
Information wants to be free – but Viacom is holding it hostage
Last night during dinner I went to watch Tuesday’s Daily Show online, as I frequently do, only to be confronted with a bizarre pop-up ad about DirecTV (which seemed to have nothing to do with me, since I don’t have DirecTV, or, indeed, a TV at all) and a message saying that full episodes were [...]
Posted: 12 July, 2012 in Copyright.
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Breaking Through the Block
One of the reasons I like to blog is that it keeps me writing regularly. Like lots of academic librarians my job comes with expectations for research and scholarship, so I need to be able to write up the work that I do and get it published. Writing is hard — I think writing comes [...]
Posted: 9 July, 2012 in Just Thinking.
Tags: blogging, writer's block, writing
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