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Quick update on why I haven’t

Quick update on why I haven’t been doing much blogging….

….it’s mainly cause I’m building a better blog. 🙂 I’m in the process of trying out Radio Userland as an alternative to blogger for what I want to be able to do with my blog. Blogger is a GREAT tool, but the basic blogger doesn’t support comments (have to get those from another site) among other things. Radio uses CSS and XML in interesting ways, supports RSS feeds for my site, archives in XML instead of HTML…just generally does things the way I want.

SO….I’m building. Soon, all will be revealed.

🙂

Jason

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Digital Culture

So for no apparent reason, I’m

So for no apparent reason, I’m just going to write a bit.

I got into this library thing because it seemed to meet and bring together an amazing number of interests of mine, and indeed, I have discovered that it does. The fact is, though, that my interests seem to run to the esoteric. The most “librarian” thing that I am interested in is reference, but my real passion lies in the areas of contention and theory, like freedom of speech, the PATRIOT act, information freedom like Open Source and Free software, p2p systems and their use in the breaking down of the copyright system (copyright, until the digital age, wasn’t difficult….now, it’s nearly untenable). The real question is: how do these things make a job? The more I look at it, the more I see working at a library as a means to getting a law degree….*sigh*. But do I really wanna do that?

What say you, anonymous visitors?

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Digital Culture

Thought for the day:

Thought for the day:

You will never, ever hear me putting down Chapel Hill….it’s an amazing place to live. There is one, small problem….I have to admit, they make better bagels up north. The things we get here are less bagels and more cream cheese delivery units.

They are bagelesque….bagel-like. But they clearly aren’t bagels. And no…chains like Bregger’s aren’t either.

*sigh*

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Digital Culture

UT-Knoxville appears to be doi

UT-Knoxville appears to be doing an online survey concerning Blogging…

check it out

In other news, just ONE more project to finish the semester…woooooo- hoooooo.

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Digital Culture Gaming Legal Issues Media

Penny arcade vs Strawberry Shortcake

Here we have a bizarre case. One of my favorite online comics, Penny Arcade, was served a cease and desist from American Greetings, the owners of the characters in the Strawberry Shortcake family of products most of us probably remember from our youth. The problem in question is this comic (also here as PNG), which parodies a game creator called America McGee, whose specialty is taking children’s stories (Alice in Wonderland, Oz) and taking them gothic. Clearly, American Greetings didn’t think it was funny.

Discussion on Slashdot.

Sad state of intellectual property in the US continues. PA can’t afford to fight this, so they just have to roll over.

Or, they make a strip like this.

🙂

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Digital Culture

Ok. I don’t have any idea how

Ok. I don’t have any idea how to describe this. So I won’t.

http://www.boohbah.com/zone.html

Enjoy.

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Digital Culture

The funniest Xmen 2 review you

The funniest Xmen 2 review you will ever read.

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=15038

Funny, funny stuff. One of the many examples of youth that should be on ritalin drips.

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Digital Culture

Bad people in library land:

Bad people in library land:

Obviously doing research, U Penn Library Director has 2,000 illicit kiddie porn images on computer
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/mosher1.html

Ick.

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Digital Culture

Ok…not a lot of personal stu

Ok…not a lot of personal stuff on here over the last few weeks. Mainly because I’m SWAMPED with work. but next week will be the end of it, and hopefully the summer will bring some less stressful time.

Overall, though, it’s been an ok semester. Lots of great classes, just gotta get through the last projects.

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Digital Culture

I suppose that everybody needs

I suppose that everybody needs a dream.

As long as this guy is far, far away from me, that is.