there’s a great interview with Rep Rick Boucher: Lawmaker Revs Up Fair-Use Crusade. From page 2: “I would spend my time as a committee member when I was addressing [record companies] saying, ‘OK, why don’t you do something about it yourself? Why don’t you put your entire inventory up on the web and make it available in a user-friendly format for a reasonable price per track and get away from clinging to this old, outdated business model…'”
Archives for June 2005
I neglected to mention an important passing
earlier this week: last Sunday, Scott Young died in Kingston, ON. Young was best known in the last years of his life as the father of Neil Young, which Scott immortalized in the great Neil and Me. But people of a different generation in Canada knew Scott Young as an icon in his own right, a great general subject journalist and an even greater sports writer. In Canada we’ve missed his contributions since he gave up reporting in the 80s, and at this stage we need more like him, not fewer.
More news today
in the wonderful world of weblog infrastructure. One of the best services out there, blo.gs, has been acquired by Yahoo! as of today. The service blo.gs provides has largely been eclipsed by the buzz around RSS, but it’s just as valuable. I like RSS for the quick access it gives you to information from multiple sources, but weblogs aren’t just about the information – and that’s where blo.gs (and BlogTracker before it) come in. Weblogs are a much richer environment than any RSS feed can convey – and only by going to the sites themselves can you really capture that.
Salon’s Eric Boehlert
unpacks the incredible lack of interest that the US media has had towards the Downing Street Memo: Bush lied about war? Nope, no news there!
I also found
another blog by an old friend/colleague/conspirator, Zoilus by Carl Wilson of the Globe and Mail. Carl is one of the most gifted music writers I’ve ever known, and though we’ve more or less lost touch since he moved to Toronto (I think I’ve seen him twice or three times, not more), it’s always a treat to read his work.
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