Monkinetic Weblog

Silent witness where there are no words.

I don't have words. Others are covering events in New York and DC. I'm numb.

We went to the beach for labor day. Here's a pic of me with my niece, Caroline. Thanks God.

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God. I haven't enough breath to say how many things are wrong with this proposed digital rights management bill. This is not digital rights mangement. It's digital rights removal. As content moves to digital formats, media companies are finding that software/hardware can make it possible for them to absolutely control how "their" content is used, viewed, etc. No more pesky "fair use" (in current copyright law). The software is creating law. The DMCA basically says, "any restriction we can put on you in the software is legal". This upcoming bill is worse. Say goodbye to taping your favorite tv-shows. Say goodbye to ripping you cds to mp3. Say goodbye to lending that book from the Library (themselves sure to be illegal soon) to a friend. The Communist states could only dream of having so much control over the information to which their subjects had access.

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God. I haven't enough breath to say how many things are wrong with this proposed digital rights management bill. This is not digital rights mangement. It's digital rights removal. As content moves to digital formats, media companies are finding that software/hardware can make it possible for them to absolutely control how "their" content is used, viewed, etc. No more pesky "fair use" (in current copyright law). The software is creating law. The DMCA basically says, "any restriction we can put on you in the software is legal". This upcoming bill is worse. Say goodbye to taping your favorite tv-shows. Say goodbye to ripping you cds to mp3. Say goodbye to lending that book from the Library (themselves sure to be illegal soon) to a friend. The Communist states could only dream of having so much control over the information to which their subjects had access.

This is a real test

Thanks to my handy content management system, I've added some Dublin Core meta data to my templates. There's more metadata on inner pages of the site (due to the message architecture of Conversant) than on the weblog. Once I migrate to XHTML (another goal of this site) I'll likely redo the meta-data as RDF.

God. I haven't enough breath to say how many things are wrong with this proposed digital rights management bill. This is not digital rights mangement. It's digital rights removal. As content moves to digital formats, media companies are finding that software/hardware can make it possible for them to absolutely control how "their" content is used, viewed, etc. No more pesky "fair use" (in current copyright law). The software is creating law. The DMCA basically says, "any restriction we can put on you in the software is legal". This upcoming bill is worse. Say goodbye to taping your favorite tv-shows. Say goodbye to ripping you cds to mp3. Say goodbye to lending that book from the Library (themselves sure to be illegal soon) to a friend. The Communist states could only dream of having so much control over the information to which their subjects had access.

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courtesy of hans: the humanclock. Make sure you pick digital. It's worth it.

This weblog will go faster if you stop putting things in context

The danger of Non-Compete agreements - AP. I know I'm gonna review mine.

courtesy of hans: the humanclock. Make sure you pick digital. It's worth it.

via SnowDeal. Oh My. N-Gen Design Engine. Wow. Fun.

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courtesy of hans: the humanclock. Make sure you pick digital. It's worth it.

I cannot say how awesome This is. [via /.]

Much geek fun to be had at seige-engine.com. Hehe. Next time you lock the keys in the car, you know where to turn.

Café Con Leche:

Hmm. Some folks are praising ActiveWords. Sounds like an interesting concept. Have to look into it more later.

Since I have a new design here, I've been blogging more. I like my site. I like looking at it. So I'm in a good mood, and I post. All is well.