finally

Finally home for a longer period. Obviously I hope to cash in on this time but there is so much to do:

blog a bit
cleaning (a lot of cleaning to do since I skipped this years big spring clean up)
reading (still have over 10 books lying around in different phases of being read)
visiting (not only the [...]

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younison

In the wake of all internet succes some artist recently got, there is now a platform for all musicians to unite and break the stalemate current semi-criminal-but-governement-supported organisations like SABAM hold on copyright, rights collection and distribution.
The campaign is supported by a youtube video featuring Mr. Tim Van Hamel.
(Via Clo)

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the presentation paradox

On googleblogoscoped today:
a perfect explanation of why the good interfaces rarely make it and about the design by commitee that ruins it all.
Read on!

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microsoft still deemed monopoly

Yesterday judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly extended with two more years to oversight of Microsoft due to its non-compliance to the 2002 settlement on anti-trust charges.
While the filing states originally asked for oversight untill 2012, the judge leaves open the option to extend it beyond 2009.
(via The Register)

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the terrist have won!!!!11!!eleven!1!1!

It becomes more and more clear for anybody with the slightest bit of common sense. The terrorist have won.
I do not mean Al Qaeda and the likes. Yes, they have a high succes rate. OK, let’s take this one step at the time:
1. Al Qaeda does not exist, that is, more accurately, “it did not [...]

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icanhascolrz

Since today a lot of Gmail users report that they have color to add to their labels and so do I.
Although not extremely important, it gives more visibility to your mails. All GTD fans can start drooling even more over Gmail as the ultimate GTD tool, even without the BetterGmail scripts of the Lifehackers.

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EMI about to reduce RIAA and IFPI contribution?

Is this the first step of some sanity coming to the music business? Maybe they finally got the message that the endless stream of litigation is really not helping their cash flow in any way.
Look at what Ars has to say.

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oops-a-daisy !

I do sincerely hope this was an accident.
Here’s a whoops with a capital W.
…
But in an email sent out today, the committee inadvertently sent the email addresses of all the would-be whistleblowers to everyone who had written in to the tipline. The committee email was sent to tipsters who had used the website form, [...]

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(w)hacked

Following the leaking of 700mb of internal mails of the Media Defender company, the people at the Pirate Bay started to sift through them. They found out that MD was actively sabotaging their trackers and filed complaint with the Swedish police against pretty much every music label registered in Sweden.
Here is what they have to [...]

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no crowd

No more IT Crowd fun on Youtube. Too bad. Although it are only the full episodes that have been removed, not the excerpts and small clips.

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nick em all

As it is all over the net by now: big fuzz over the fact that Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails or NIN) encourages his fans to “steal it”.
What actually happened is that he is stuck with his record company for one more year or album and as long as that is the case NIN is [...]

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irate ?

Something to ponder about!

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game, set, match

Finally there is a breakthrough in the whole SCO debacle.
On friday the judge slashed all SCO’s hope on any further wins.
According to the judge they do not own the copyright to Unix.
So from now on they will see an avalanche pf problems coming their way:

SCO vs. IBM : they have no leg to stand on [...]

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inbox zero

Merlin Mann of 43folders recently had a session at Google to explain his “Inbox Zero” method. This builds on the basics of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” but shows a more straight forward approach open to anyone, instantly.
Now the Google folks also posted the video of the session online (first 30 minutes are Merlin’s speech, [...]

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copy right

In a simple drawing Erik J. Heels explains how US copyright works.
An element of surprise for a lot of people might be where he explains that there is also non-controlled use of copyrighted work. This means some use cannot be regulated with the current copyright laws in place. Lots of copyrightholders or their representing groups [...]

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