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Nuclear Powered Batteries the Thickness of a Human Hair
Gizmodo and Boing Boing both covered the launch of a potentially quite exciting advance in battery science coming out of the engineering department at Missouri University: nuclear batteries “thinner than the thickness of human hair.” Despite sounding dangerous, researcher Jae Kwon says “[N]uclear power sources have already been safely powering a variety of devices, such ...
Boing Boing Stands Up to a DMCA Takedown Request, Thanks in Part to Their Canadian Hosting Company
With all the lack of intestinal fortitude with regard to DMCA requests and various judges’ orders to reveal identities of anonymous bloggers and commenters, it’s heartening to see examples of guts in the face of a clearly bogus DMCA request. Of course, if you’re to run down the list of likely candidates to stand up ...
Rich Cleland Pulls a 180° on Blogger Liability
Rich Cleland, a man that I’ve put out numerous requests for comment to without response as well as someone I’ve tried unsuccessfully to research background on this week, has been more prolific in his comments to the Old Media on the new FTC rules than I have (and I’ve appeared on five audio podcasts and ...
Cloud Collision: The Effects of Larry Ellison’s War on Terminology
As I’ve stated several times here before, I’m not an IT guy (at least not anymore). It’s been around ten years since my last IT certification was valid or I had my hands in the day to day administration of a wide-area network. I do have a pretty solid foundation in the principals of IT, ...
FTC vs. the Blogosphere Day 2 Roundup
Yesterday, the FTC officially launched their assault on the free speech of bloggers and social network users, and the reception in the blogosphere was mixed. You can read our continuing coverage of what’s going on here: The Dangerous Perceptions of the New FTC Rules Explained [Part One] The FTC is Opening a Hornet’s Nest [ANGLE ...
The Dangerous Perceptions of the New FTC Rules Explained [Part One]
I have a feeling I’ll be swatting flies on this FTC thing for the next couple of weeks to come. I feel like I’ve covered just about every aspect of the danger of the FTC guidelines, none of which have changed since our original analysis other than the penalty itself of $11k for violating bloggers. ...
FTC Media Roundup: The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent
The Federal Trade Commission released regulations that can best be described as a landgrab to punish small media producers on the web and clamp down on free speech. Before we jump into that, the opinions around the web are piling up, and I thought I’d round those up for you before we jump into my ...
The Problem with Podcasting (Still) Isn’t Downloads
It occurs to me that my public positions on podcasting have been widely misconstrued. Earlier last week, David Spark put out a pretty decent post over at Mashable that explained the “Nine Ways To Make Money Podcasting,” which was commented on by James Lewin over at Podcasting News. Both posts are worth reading, but James ...
Leo Laporte’s Millions and Many Wise Moves in Online Video
You may have read elsewhere in the blogosphere that Leo Laporte now makes $1.5 million a year on his podcast. Jeff Jarvis, at his blog, talked a bit in the context of “Old Media is Dying,” drawing advice from Leo’s speech to the Online News Association (a video of which you can find at his ...
How To Become Fabulously Wealthy From Ads in your Twitter-stream
The idea of monetizing activity streams through in-stream advertisements is starting to gain greater acceptance, just as monetizing other aspects of your online social profiles starting to become a thing. At the recent Techcrunch50 event, online social startup uDorse demonstrated their ability to take photographs that appear on social networking profiles and connect them with ...
