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Laughingmeme:

April 19, 2004 by Michael Boyle

Laughingmeme:

Page 23, sentence 5: an autopsy. “The key inflection point for the blog community seems to be the April 11th posting on caterina.net; the highly connected nature of an ‘A-list’ blogger pushing the population of exposed individual over the density threshold from isolated cases to epidemic.”

Tags: Blogging

In response to (silly) criticism,

April 15, 2004 by Michael Boyle

In response to (silly) criticism,

Google has clarified its policies surrounding GMail. Matthew Haughey sums the whole situation up very well: “it boggles my mind that they even have to go to such great lengths to explain how their subtle ads aren’t the new red menace.”

Tags: Advertising, Google

In odd Canadian news today,

April 15, 2004 by Michael Boyle

In odd Canadian news today,

BC MP Svend Robinson is stepping down and taking a “medical leave from politics.” It seems that Mr Robinson has had some stress issues that have bled over into behaviour issues.

Tags: Canadian Politics

New

April 14, 2004 by Michael Boyle

New

They suggest that “Search inside the book” results are presented under the “Books” tab on the standard results page, but I tried it and it didn’t work. That’s a pretty tough test so I tried again with a more precise search and it got the book right but not the page that my name appears on.

Tags: Amazon, Books, Search

I may have forgotten to post

April 14, 2004 by Michael Boyle

I may have forgotten to post

that economics professors Koleman Strumpf and Felix Oberholzer have published a preliminary version of what I think is an important paper: The effect of file sharing on record sales – an empirical analysis [360K PDF]. The authors have come under withering criticism since putting the draft online, but the paper is clearly much better than anything else that has been published on the subject. If you’re curious, the New Observer in Raleigh NC has published a profile of Strumpf. Doesn’t look like an anarchist to me!

Tags: Copyfight, Music Industry

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