It goes almost without saying that any article which opens with a KN@PPSTER name check has something going for it and is likely to come in a cut above the usual. Above and beyond the much-appreciated right-wing link love, though, Daniel McCarthy's "Why Obama Isn't an American" on his Tory Anarchist blog (at The American Conservative) is a fine and thought-provoking piece.
Also on the "birther" topic, Jesse Walker has an interesting take over at Reason.
Sunday, August 02, 2009
There are only three ways this can end
"This" being the Associated Press's continued flirtations with asserting "intellectual property" rights extending far beyond past accepted and enforceable norms, in an age when such claims are undergoing a massive, technology-driven decrease in enforceability, and when the very idea of "intellectual property" is in fact being agonizingly reappraised in its entirety.
One possible outcome is that the Associated Press will bankrupt itself pursuing frivolous and malicious litigation.
The second is that the Associated Press will bankrupt itself by making itself irrelevant -- adopting policies which make it into a minor news source rather than a major one.
The third is that the principals of the Associated Press will extract crania from recta and realize that every time someone posts a "fair use length" tidbit from one of their articles, accompanied by a link to that article either at AP itself or at one of the publications that pay for AP's wire service, AP profits.
That's my take, anyway. Kevin Carson seems to agree -- see his latest column at the Center for a Stateless Society.
One possible outcome is that the Associated Press will bankrupt itself pursuing frivolous and malicious litigation.
The second is that the Associated Press will bankrupt itself by making itself irrelevant -- adopting policies which make it into a minor news source rather than a major one.
The third is that the principals of the Associated Press will extract crania from recta and realize that every time someone posts a "fair use length" tidbit from one of their articles, accompanied by a link to that article either at AP itself or at one of the publications that pay for AP's wire service, AP profits.
That's my take, anyway. Kevin Carson seems to agree -- see his latest column at the Center for a Stateless Society.
Saturday, August 01, 2009
100,000 visits ...
... in the last year and three days (I switched over to the new Sitemeter account on July 28, 2008). Some blogs get more traffic each day than this one does each year, but it's a nice milestone and worth mentioning, anyway.
"Regulars," search engine traffic and a "back catalog" of links from other sites seems to constitute a floor of about 150-200 visits per day and growing. The rest is a matter of posting stuff regularly -- when I do that, the traffic comes, and the amount coming grows over time. I had hoped to be back in the 1,400-visit-per-day range by the end of July. I'm nowhere near that, but at this rate I do expect to get there some time in the next two or three months.
"Regulars," search engine traffic and a "back catalog" of links from other sites seems to constitute a floor of about 150-200 visits per day and growing. The rest is a matter of posting stuff regularly -- when I do that, the traffic comes, and the amount coming grows over time. I had hoped to be back in the 1,400-visit-per-day range by the end of July. I'm nowhere near that, but at this rate I do expect to get there some time in the next two or three months.
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