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John Scalzi explains why he, Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Tor will not be putting DRM on their e-Books. Great to see authors and publishers being smart here, and not falling for the DRM traps.Stavros the Wonderchicken is thinking about how tags can grow into virtual worlds.Technorati Tags: auctorial, digital rights, DRM, tags, writ...

I have made this contrast before, and I think it is another key framing distinction in the net debate.Network engineers draw the Internet as a cloud, because it doesn't matter to endpoints how the packets get there. The packets get routed, but the protocols are designed to cope with messiness, with buffers overflowing, and computers crashing, and wires being unplugged or ripped up by backhoes. This...

The internet is up for debate again. I'd like to connect the thoughts of 3 smart women and one dead white male.What I see is a generational divide - there is my generation, who built the internet; the protocols, the applications and are filling it with our thoughts and ramblings. For this generation, I'd claim Douglas Adams, whose 1999 essay I keep returning to. Do go read the whole thing; I'm going...

Today's flash of the bleedin' obvious was that blogs by writers tend to work well. On the face of it, this is a banal observation, but finding the blog by the Grey's Anatomy writers, and Malcolm Gladwell's new blog, reminded me that anyone who writes professionally, who writes because they love it, and can't help but write, should get themselves a blog, so we can all share in the flow of ideas.After...

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Long-time blog readers will notice a small change in my layout today - a new box in my sidebar showing recent posts from my favorite blogs.More interesting for me, is that I can now search just within these, which can be very handy for those 'where did I read that?' questions. Try it out, read about it on the Technorati blog and let us know what you think.You can even favour me:Technorati Tags: favorite,...

The Conference was lots of fun and very interesting. I did a live bootleg webcast for remote people. It was initially poor quality, because my iSight mic is broken, but Roland Tanglao lent me his.I webcast and recorded this afternoon: February 11, 2006 - 3-4pm - Geek Out session - at UBC Campus, Vancouver Myself, Robert Scoble and Will Pate on Social Software at its newest (and geekiest)....

The APIG inquiry into DRM had it's public hearing today.Suw Charman, as well as presenting for the Open Rights Group, also took phenomenally extensive notesA few selected quotes, focused on the 'code as law' and 'missing leeway' aspects of DRM:From my previous submission:The second principle is the core one of jurisprudence - that due process is a requirement before punishment. I know the Prime Minister...