Comments on: Connecting The Dots

By: badger

badger — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:55:37 +0000

If internet use is metered, it will dry up and blow away. It’s already costly (computers, software, internet connection) and adding cost to cost will effectively block library free access, add costs to schools and businesses. In trying to swat down bloggers they are hurting great swaths of people that rely on the internet daily which is stoopid and counterproductive. Traditional media needs to embrace instead of fight new technology.

By: newscoma

newscoma — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:31:29 +0000

Well said, Jim.

By: jim voorhies

jim voorhies — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:16:32 +0000

it’s a hard time for traditional media, since the net came along. nobody understood the possibilities of an open network where anyone could speak their mind. once people got past having to understand html to post on the internet, it was almost too late for conventional media.

the web is free. i can post projections of what I think could happen to the economyand people from amsterdam to hooterville to nyc can read it. we can take things we find anywhere on the net, rewrite them, quote them, link to them and spread knowledge and information.

for people like ap and reuters and the ny times, who are accustomed to being paid to be the source of information, seeing some upstart whacko with a computer “snatch” their stories and distribute them gratis must be traumatic. they’re like farriers when the car arrived. they just haven’t figured out how they much change, and they suck at doing it as fast as they need to change.

By: newscoma

newscoma — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:11:46 +0000

Hey LissaKay. Thanks for commenting. I went over and read the post. Thanks for leaving the link.
One thing that does bother me is that it seems like several things are happening and that’s just one of them.
It does concern me regarding information about fees and about how information/communication will be impacted by several of the issues going around know.
Once again, thanks for the link. I had been following over there some but hadn’t been today.
Need to read it again.

By: LissaKay

LissaKay — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:47:18 +0000

As usual, MS is ignoring me. I guess I totally offended him in some way at some time ... perhaps by committing the sin of speaking my mind ... but whatever. I left this over there. Thought maybe you would be interested in at least following up on this: Robert Cox of the Media Bloggers Association:

AP first contacted Rogers in April not June. They sent Rogers a "cease and desist" letter on April 15th which cited a couple of entries on Drudge Retort as examples of their claim that Rogers was "encouraging" copyright infringement. One of those examples was the whole text of an article and the entire headline, the others were similar. Rogers failed to respond until May 14th due to a mix up with his mailing address at which point AP sent him a Take Down Notice for 14 other posts, 13 of which were whole text/exact headline posts to his site. Rogers disputed the 14th entry as fair use but took it down as required under DMCA. Rogers notified his contributor, the person who posted the content, but that person did not file a counter-claim and so the post remained removed.

Tempest in a teakettle it may be ....

By: Lynnster

Lynnster — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:21:08 +0000

Well said, my friend, well said.