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Al Macintyre's Radio Weblog
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Friday, July 19, 2002 |
Today's Topic = Appreciating History Perspectives.
Datamation interview with Ray Tomlinson who invented e-mail in 1971 and was honored for a lifetime of innovation by Discover magazine.
His current research is on tools and agents to solve logistical problems for the government.
He thinks that if e-mail does not get killed off by spam, he thinks that in the future it will be more integrated with other forms of computer communication.
He thinks spam should be cureable by better technology, but not viruses and worms.
Someone should turn him on to Radio Weblogging Aggregation as an alternative to e-mail.
I would like to have a business card scanner that updates the speed dial talk memory of my telephone, so I can SAY "Call Virginia" and the telephone dials her number, then when everyone has that technology the volume of wrong numbers to me would drop, or I get e-mail from someone and it has their snail mail address - I push a button and it updates my snail mail address book.
Datamation used to be a great dead tree computer magazine, but now they are purely an Internet resource, worth periodically checking out. I was reminded of this by the latest Search Day at:
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Tuesday, July 16, 2002 |
Wired News May 14 article by Declan McCullagh mentions several professional publishers of newspapers and magazines seeking to block deep links by non-commercial hobbyist websites, even though a US Federal Judge ruled in 2000 that hyperlinking is not a violation of copyright. It is analogous to using a library's card index to faster and more efficiently reference particular items. The library is not violating the copyright of the books that are being linked to, by using the card index. According to Wired, The Judge said that deep linking is not illegal (in the USA) as long as it's clear whom the linked page belongs to.
Wired News Dec 6 last year by Fargad Manjoo explains KPMG's opposition to hyperlinking to their site without their permission, much like the NPR situation.
1:06:05 PM
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My last post now goes blue instead of letting me edit it. This happens from time to time. Something else for me to figure out some time.
Public Controversy over National Public Radio linking policies, seeking to ban other people from linking to NPR, without prior written consent, apparently grew thanks to Cory Doctorow discussing this issue on his BoingBoing Blog, A Directory of Wonderful things.
NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey A. Dvorkin replied to this Netiquette Controversy. (I did not yet fill out the NPR permission form). Thanks to feedback from bloggers, NPR has changed their policy.
David Rothman defined the word blogger, which was previously unclear to the NPR Ombudsman, and perhaps to other people also, but I have not found the explicit definition, except in context.
12:24:15 PM
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July 16 issue of Search Day has more on the Deep Linking controversy out of Denmark, which I introduced 2002-07-10 Wednesday. Two lawyers get into a debate over what is becoming more obvious to me is related to copyright fair use.
- When do we need explicit permission to link to someone's web site?
- Is "Don't link without our express permission." legally binding?
- Is linking an implicit agreement to a contract with "terms of permission"?
For the answers to these questions, read the latest Search Day debate. Not as clear as I would like it to be. Additional relevant links include:
- Controversy over the linking policy of National Public Radio.
11:58:14 AM
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With Blogs worth revisiting I think I am beginning to "get it" on how to link to my past posts. Several people and several documents had told me the same theoretical stuff, but it takes a bit of learning by doing, exploring Radio, often doing wrong, to finally "get it". I am still a bit of a novice learning Radio.
I keyed the Blogs worth revisiting story, and posted it, then saw something more I wanted to add, so selected the button to Edit my work, and I got a blank screen. Panic. Back button. It is still there. Try again, another blank screen. By experimentation I found that what works is to go to Stories on top menu bar, select the story I want to edit, then the edit button works, the first time. If I want to edit some more, go via Stories menu. That works.
Thanks also someone for telling me about F5. I not remember who told me, or what document ... I have looked at several Radio Tutorials in the last few days. Basically when I have one Browser window open at my public site, and another open to the editing, which is being upstreamed to the public site, F5 is needed at the public site to refresh the picture to see my latest input.
11:47:08 AM
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Here I try to figure out how to cross-link my posts, so that I can do that with posts on the same subject. I was contemplating a story for each subject that I get into, that would have links to all the posts mentioning it, to help in future mentions.
With Radio there are many different kinds of links that I want to learn how to do, and also learn the correct terminology for them all. Newbies see something we want to do, but we not know what it called, so we dither all over the place trying to describe it, and of course search engines not much help for the right documentation because we not know the right terminology yet.
Jan Karlsbjerg of http://www.karlsbjerg.net/blog/ reminded me that if I have one Windoze Browser window open on my public site, and another open on my private editing of my weblog, QUOTE
So if you want to refer to all your posts for Wednesday, July 10, 2002,
the date in question, hover the mouse over the day-anchor, right-click
(I'm assuming you're running Windows here) and from the menu that
springs up you select "Copy Shortcut". You now have the shortcut to your
posts for that day, and you can insert them into your own writing (see
"Copy and Paste URLs" above). Same thing for specific post-anchors,
except steal the link from the #-sign for the post. UNQUOTE
I am obviously not quite yet "getting it", so I need to do some more studying of
Copy and Paste URLs:
10:42:22 AM
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Sunday, July 14, 2002 |
Cute Animation. Hold cursor over one of the illustrations and leave it there for a moment to make sure you get the full effects. Thanks to V on TYR for sharing this link.
2:06:27 PM
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Friday, July 12, 2002 |
I would like to have access to cut & paste ICONS that identify my interests & hobbies. The ICONS should be recognizable to anyone else who is in that interest, and have links to associations of people with similar interests. Then we ought to be able to use search engines ... locate someone else in my community who has similar interests ... I looking for a pen pal in X nation interested in same stuff.
- I am in the US National Science Fiction Fandom Association (N3F).
- I am into Simulation Games (sometimes called Wargames).
- I am a book-a-holic.
- I am a news junkie.
- I am a computer professional (speciality was midrange but this is a moving target).
BlogChalking supposedly makes it easy to mark our language, country, city, neighborhood on our Weblog, so that people using search engines can find real world neighbors. Now can this work for my WYSIWYG Radio? Here goes. I suspect this is easy for script programmers but not for ordinary users.
Google! DayPop! This is my <b>blogchalk</b>: English, United States, Evansville Indiana, The East Side, Al, Male, 56-60!
<a href='http://www.blogchalking.tk' target='bc'><img src='http://danpadua.kit.net/chalk4.gif' border='0' alt='blogchalk: Al/Male/56-60. Lives in United States/Evansville Indiana/The East Side and speaks English. Spends 20% of daytime online. Uses a Faster (1M+) connection.' title='blogchalk: Al/Male/56-60. Lives in United States/Evansville Indiana/The East Side and speaks English. Spends 20% of daytime online. Uses a Faster (1M+) connection.'></a>
I need to locate the <head> in my template and add the following right after it.
<META NAME='Keywords' CONTENT='blogchalk, English, United States, Evansville Indiana, The East Side, Al, Male, 56-60'>
Actually, what I would like to say to the world about myself are some choices other than those suggested by BlogChalk.
1:47:50 PM
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Wednesday, July 10, 2002 |
www.AirDisaster.com is a great site for connections to information about Aviation Safety world wide and the latest news on Aviation mishaps, if you can stand the high density of pop up ads. I love the smilies of their Discussion Forums. You will find me there using the handle of GROUND HOG WASH.
Today my UPS died (replacement installed Fri the 12th), so I have been reduced to using a mere surge protector.
As you can see, I have discovered (been shown) how to work several kinds of links since my earlier Manila Radio learning.
Search Day offers this connection to some weblogs we might want to check out.
Top 30 UK weblogs, using info from Alexa search engine data base to find which are the most popular among millions of Internet users. Gblogs supplied the larger list of 529 UK based Weblogs sampled, to get the most popular in Britain. I had read someplace that there are many thousands of weblogs world wide, so this may be a sampling of some good sites within a larger spectrum.
A hot topic in the latest editions of Search Day are the implications of a court in Denmark ruling that Deep Linking is Illegal. More on this topic on my 2002-07-16 Tuesday posts.
Jan Karlsbjerg in his July 13 blog says this is not as big a deal as it seemed to be to me from the US press, in my comments below. In his Monday July 8 blog, he explains that the ruling is more about copyright than deep linking, that basically the court said that Newsbooster may not systematically deep link into other web sites' content when they do not want competitors to be doing that, not that deep linking is prohibited outside of this case. Thanks Jan.
The story in the press does seem to be much more ominous than as clarified by Jan.
What does this mean? Well the first thing is that if you have been doing business with anyone in Denmark, if you have any urls connected to Denmark, get legal clarification immediately. It may be that the rest of the world will have to stop doing business with Denmark until their courts overturn or clarify the ruling.
The July 9 edition of Search Day, by Chris Sherman, lets us know about this Denmark court ruling and speculates about some of the wider implications.
The July 10 issue has an article by Eric Ward on recent lawsuits over various sites linking to each other, and what the implications of the Denmark court ruling are for Search Engines, Stock Quotes, News Headlines. Eric Ward has been consulting for 8 years on linking and would be thrilled to testify in court how all this legal stuff is unnecessary, with some very narrow exceptions.
Links from Search Day to other useful information on this topic include:
Jan's blog clarifies the issues that led to the ruling in Denmark. There are some similar cases in the USA. It is one thing to link, like we do with blogging, to say here is something we found that is interesting, in which it is clear which content is ours and which is at the place we linked to. We bloggers want to carefully give credit to our sources, in a journalistic tradition. But in the news business, publishers want to steal customers from each other, by any method the law will let them get away with.
If there is a portal to news information and it is presented as if it is being delivered by an organization other than the one actually giving the news, that is unethical, and it is a topic of these legal cases.
If there are advertisements on a site, it is Ok if they are approved by the site, it is Ok if they are complimentary to the site's purposes and audience, or if totally unrelated. Subject of law suits is when the ads are trying to get people on a web site to go to a competitor of the web site.
Something else Jan alluded to that came up in the court case.
- Software is marketed that it is to perform function X.
- Software is purchased for the purpose of function X.
- The enterprise using the software states that it is doing function X.
- But really it is doing function Y.
- Who is liable for this misrepresentation?
- The enterprise for not knowing what is being done by the software they installed?
- The software provider for misrepresenting what their product does?
12:22:37 PM
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