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May 2006

Factoryjoe on trademarks

May 31, 2006

FactoryJoe posts onWhy BarCamp is a Community Mark at FactoryCity, and in the process makes a specious comment on trademark law. Responding to my claim that “trademark laws are designed to protect consumers, not ensure a revenue stream for companies”, Joe claims: This is the correct interpretation of trademark law as it was intended in [...]

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Tim O’Reilly responds

May 31, 2006

Web 2.0 Service Mark Controversy (Tim responding this time): The flap about the Web 2.0 Conference trademark has shaken my faith in the collective intelligence of the blogosphere. Of all the hundreds of people who commented on this issue, only a few touched base to do a bit of fact checking. The New York Times, [...]

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MacDailyNews in “sense of humour failure” shock

May 29, 2006

MacDailyNews issues a point by point rebuttal of a Paul Thurrot piece on Apple copying Microsoft. Or rather, a little news bite story that mentions Apple engineers at WinHEC and, as a humorous aside, says they were there to copy Microsoft. Digg – which of late is turning into “Fanboi Vs Fanboi” rather than being [...]

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For Radio 4 Mac lovers

May 27, 2006

if you use iCal (or another programme that can subscribe to iCal-format files, like Microsoft Works) and like Radio 4, then the Radio 4 iCalShare is for you. It includes complete schedules for upcoming Radio 4 programme – a little messy when viewed in iCal, but still great and useful. And, I think, it uses [...]

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Boing Boing: Can anyone own “Web 2.0?”

May 27, 2006

At last, a sane response to the whole “Web 2.0” controversy, in Boing Boing: Can anyone own “Web 2.0?”. If only a few more people on the web had engaged their brains before doing things like demanding that people condemn their friends publicly, there would have been a little less mass hysteria.

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Brighton Bus Times

May 27, 2006

In Dashboard Widget form! Download from Brighton Bus Times.

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Apple loses blogging case

May 26, 2006

27B Stroke 6: The Sixth District Court of Appeals on Friday roundly rejected (.pdf) Apple’s argument that the bloggers weren’t acting as journalists when they posted internal document about future Apple products. “We decline the implicit invitation to embroil ourselves in questions of what constitutes ‘legitimate journalis(m).’ The shield law is intended to protect the [...]

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For the techno-hippies, mob rules

May 26, 2006

It’s been a quiet day at work, which means that I’ve been able to follow the growing controversy over CMP Media and O’Reilly’s apparent cease and desist letter sent to an Irish non-profit over its use of “Web 2.0” in the name of a conference. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better example of [...]

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This might actually get me running

May 24, 2006

Actually, that’s probably pushing it a little far, but the announcement that Apple partners with Nike on a set of really cool extensions for iPod is certainly pretty amazing. Michael Gartenberg probably puts it best: this is confirmation that the iPod is a platform.

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The death of Wikipedia

May 24, 2006

Nicholas Carr on The death of Wikipedia: Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that “anyone can edit,” was a nice experiment in the “democratization” of publishing, but it didn’t quite work out. Wikipedia is dead. It died the way the pure products of idealism always do, slowly and quietly and largely in secret, through the corrosive process of [...]

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