Disney (yes, Disney) declares war on “overzealous copyright holders”
"Disney is being sued by the Michael Jackson estate for using fair-use clips in a biopic called 'The Last Days of Michael Jackson' -- in its brief, the company decries 'overzealous copyright holders' whose unwillingness to consider fair use harms 'the right of free speech under the First Amendment.'"
Pots and Kettles spring to mind.
( Cory Doctorow ) has the full story.
Hands on: Scrivener 3.03 is the best tool for writing books
"Scrivener isn't necessarily the best for making books or e-books, but now it doesn't have to be since it's added Vellum support."
Now that is surely great news for Scrivener and Vellum users
( Apple Insider ) has the full story.
Democratic turnout surges to 20-year high as voters look to check Trump
"It looks like Trump's ugly agenda could be sending a record number of Democrats to the voting booth. Democrats across the country are voting in huge numbers this year during the primary season."
( Eric Boehlert ) has the full story.
RSS: The Persistent Protocol
"The tension between walled gardens (or lock-in, or whatever you want to call it) and a decentralized web will likely never end. But, it feels like we are in for another significant turn of the crank on how all of this works, and that means lots of innovation is coming."( Brad Feld ) has the full story.
Brad Feld talking RSS … and predicting that we are in for some innovation in the space.
Good.
Teen Accused of Pushing Friend Off Bridge Speaks Out
The teen tells NBC News she "feels really bad about what happened"( Arden Dier ) has the full story.
JP Says : Well, that’s good to know, I mean she just pushed her friend off a 60-foot bridge … who could possibly have guessed she would be hurt!
It’s over a year old - BUT - Tumblr was at 19 in the 100 websites that ‘rule the internet’.
Wonder where they are now?
12 weeks today, America will be voting and by tomorrow we will know what the next two years is likely to bring the world as a result of that vote.
Sadly most American’s have never voted in the midterms. Will this year see a change?
How would English sound if it were phonetically consistent?
The end result sounds a little like Werner Herzog doing an impression of someone from Wales doing an impression of an Italian who doesn’t speak English that well.( Kottke) for the full story.
I am excited to see this - but will ‘devices' include my macs … and if not - why not - given that all the info is in the cloud?
Precision. Focus. Attention To Detail.
Good One @LionCourt - thankyou.
Boing Boing by Milton Glaser.
“This is sarcastic, not that a lot of Twitter commenters were wise to that fact.”
David Frier
"Roger Daltrey says ‘hip-hop hasn’t evolved at all’ and calls Kanye West’s music “kind of meaningless” "When asked to clarify his comments on the genre, Daltrey said: “Has hip-hop evolved? I don’t think it has at all.” However, he did sing the praises of one rapper. “I do think Eminem is still one of the most creative people in that whole arena. He’s fabulous. I love him.”(NME) for the full story.
JP Says : Wonder how long it will take the media to catch up and point out that of all the rappers Roger could have called out, the one he highlighted was ‘the white one’.
Good Old Google …. makes you feel proud. Right?
"Google’s snooping proves big tech will not change – unless governments step in | Arwa Mahdawi "You must log in to your Google account, go to the “manage your Google activity” section, open “activity controls” and disable the permissions there, which are enabled by default."
(The Guardian) for the full story.
"In Defense Of Slow News "Many years back, I remember seeing Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, being interviewed about that site (which at the time was on its way to becoming the first "mainstream" tech news blog). I'm paraphrasing and possibly misremembering, but what stuck with me was that he suggested that, as a blog, you basically had to focus on one of three things to succeed: being first, being funny, or being insightful."
(Tech Dirt) for the full story.
JP Says : I like the idea of ‘slow news’ … and now I know it isn’t one of Arrington’s three legs for success in blogging, I like it even more.
What could possibly go wrong ….
"The way you press, scroll and type on a phone screen or keyboard can be as unique as your fingerprints or facial features. To fight fraud, a growing number of banks and merchants are tracking visitors' physical movements as they use websites and apps."
(Slashdot) for the full story.
Good Grief. Every day you think we finally have hit the bottom with these stories and then suddenly it’s tomorrow.
Catfish Victim Allegedly Planned to Kill Mother to Get Money to Pay Scammer "A scam victim may have been plotting to kill her mother in order to pay the person who was catfishing her."(Gizmodo) for the full story.
"Collusion Is Worse Than a Crime "It’s true, as Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani keeps insisting, that you will not find the word collusion in the federal criminal code. You will not find the word hacking there either. But that does not mean that hacking is legal, only that lawyers speak differently from other people."
(The Atlantic) for the full story.