French Google Yahoo Alike (& Loving Wikipedia)
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- French Google Yahoo Alike (& Loving Wikipedia)
- How long should copyright last?
- Seven Night Stand
- Electronic devices by Sony Amazon have their charms
French Google Yahoo Alike (& Loving Wikipedia)
WebProNews – Nov 29, 2007
It is (I think) becoming public knowledge that Google has crushed all of its opponents in France – the company has a search market share of around ninety percent. A new study is surprising then in that it reveals large similarities between the French versions of Google and Yahoo. “The first link offered by Google and Yahoo is identical in 27% of cases” reports.
How long should copyright last?
guardian.co.uk – Nov 29, 2007
If you multiply that by the number of citizens then the figure escalates to so many times the GDP that lawyers can only dream about such a paradise. Lynne Brindley chief executive of the British Library told a meeting there about intellectual property last week that the debate must move on beyond music to other areas of society affected by IP rights in a digital age. Should architects be liable to be sued if they are inspired by other buildings (bye-bye post-modernism) should software engineers have to plough through millions of lines of code in case a few lines may have infringed a patent now owned not by the creator but by a vulture fund set up to exploit such anomalies? How would the creativity of society be affected if we had to pay for every idea we lifted from Wikipedia or a painting or piece of music to express in a different way? Current laws would have wiped out most of Elizabethan drama at a stroke. At issue is how far society would benefit if we could use others’ creativity after a decent interval instead of a ludicrous 50 or 70 years after death given that most sales of books and music happen a few months after release. Instead of the issue being decided by the most powerful lobby how would it look if we could compile an independent balance of the benefits arising to society from quicker access against the cost to individuals of losing their rights? Rufus Pollock of Cambridge University has done such a study (.
Seven Night Stand
Hour.ca – Nov 29, 2007
The Enabler which is the new solo outing of The Gentlemen’s Club’s Andrew Johnston. 30: Métropolis gets politely thugged out as Houston’s Chamillionaire (according to Wikipedia pronounced Ka-MIL-yin-air and created as a “portmanteau” of “chameleon” and “millionaire” though probably only on Wikipedia is it called a portmanteau) brings a little bit of the south to the 514 alongside Mackenson Dice-B DJ Crowd and DJ Chemistry. 2: Two of Mile End’s most notorious swordsmiths and musical ne’er-do-wells David MacLeod (solo Timber!) and Daniel Noble (rillia pry Tassels) have started a new two-man supergroup called Les Phantomes debuting at Divan range. They open for a group called the Darling DeMaes who are quite good but whom I remember mostly as being the people behind one of the more over-the-top press packs I’ve ever been sent. Head to their website (.
Electronic devices by Sony Amazon have their charms
USA Today – Nov 29, 2007
But I too frequently hit them when I didn’t intend to. Below the screen is a “qwerty” keyboard; it’s used among other purposes to search a Wikipedia encyclopedia or to add annotations to text. More quibbles: I had trouble fitting the device into its protective cover. The SD card slot is hard to get to. The location numbers on the screen telling you where you are in a book are confusing. •Buying e-books.
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