A Tale of Sweden, Piratebay, DRM and Filesharing

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

If you have read my blog since the beginning, you may have noticed that I used to write a lot about copyright issues and generally took a rather positive stance towards the different piracy-factions and supported them in spirit through their different tough times.
However, recently, this topic has become rather infected in Sweden. It seems [...]

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Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

OK, so I’m an Internet geek, so sue me, but I rolled on the floor laughing when I read this story:
Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack
CORY DOCTOROW: And I have a background wallpaper skin of the Ontario subway system with all the stop names cleverly rearranged to spell out the names of the characters from [...]

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Things I am ridiculously excited about

Friday, April 7th, 2006

I yet again have to apologize for my inactivity lately – but it has been a hellish two weeks at work, and I have not been able to set off even a few minutes during the day (or even my lunch hour) to write anything. I have a few posts in the pipeline (i.e. in [...]

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Jason Kottke switches to skyscraper ads

Friday, February 24th, 2006

A-List blogger Jason Kottke has recently given up his “pro” blogger status by stopping his micropatronage (i.e. donations from subscribing readers) and settled for a more “normal” blogging approach, namely advertisements.
Check out the new look of Kottke’s site here.
(via Waxy.org)



[EDIT] In case you didn’t get it, this was sort of an inside joke by [...]

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The Japanese A-List?

Friday, February 24th, 2006

I’m sure that all of you are familiar with the Technorati Top 100 – the list of the most influential (as in, linked to) blogs right now. The bloggers on this Top 100 list are the so-called “A-Listers” of the blogging world.
Anyway, when reading through the Top 100 you will find a lot of famous [...]

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