TheWayoftheWeb

It could be a great time to run a newspaper soon, if Judge Richard Posner has his way.
He has suggested that linking to copyright material should be outlawed,
‘Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright [...]

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In amongst my normal RSS fest and occasional work-related reading, I’ve actually been doing some reading for pure pleasure over the last few weeks.
The main reason is child-proofing the house for a one-year-old who is learning to walk, throw things, and hurl himself at every possible object. Which has meant moving as many things as [...]

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Businesses and organisations can either embrace the opportunities and challenges of increasingly easy social interaction, or they can react against it. And two recent examples show how worrying that reaction can be.
Most digitally-aware people realise that anything you put on a public (or even supposedly private) social networking site can be seen by people including [...]

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It’s with a little sadness that I’m writing about the decision by Bauer Media to shelve Ditto.net – the social entertainment guide which I was fortunate enough to have been involved with for a time.
It’s an understandable decision by Bauer Media. Having apparently spent £1 million on funding the site and development, there wasn’t a [...]

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