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Today marks my last

March 22, 2001 by Michael Boyle

day of blissful unemployment. I’m excited about my new job, but it has been a nice vacation. And on to the next thing.

The next thing – this job I’m starting tomorrow – takes me into new turf. I’ve always worked on the indie/small-biz side of things. The new thing is with a huge company who will be looking to buy services from the sort of company that I used to work for. I wonder if they can adjust to a client who actually knows a thing or two, and has walked several miles in their shoes?

And last but certainly not least, major props to Ed Bilodeau [he’s on a weblogging break now, but you all know calebos.org] for originally putting me in touch with my soon-to-be boss.

Wow. Lots of tasty

March 22, 2001 by Michael Boyle

stuff over at the Internet Moving Images Archive Film List. Some in .avi format, most in MPEG-2.

Tags: Video

The copyright question

March 22, 2001 by Michael Boyle

that has most touched me and my friends – far more than Napster since I know so many writers – is being heard by the Supreme Court next week: Writers Fight for E-Rights. A couple of things spring to mind. First, there were signed contracts that specified the limited rights of the publications that purchased the articles. Second, this can be dealt with easily by splitting things up the middle – keeping the publications and historians happy by mandating that the items be licensed by writers for archival purposes, but paying them for the additional usage. Third – this is coming to the music world eventually. As I’ve written, I’ll come much closer to supporting record labels in their anti-Napster (etc.) fight the minute I see them taking steps to commit to paying the artists for electronic rights to the music.

Tags: Business, Copyfight, Music

Some of the best

March 21, 2001 by Michael Boyle

celebrity interviews going come directly from Vancouver’s Nardwuar the Human Serviette. Nardwuar is a long-time icon of weird – whose odd interview style really brings out the best and worst in his subjects (viz Nardwuar vs. Corey Feldman, snagged via Pith and Vinegar).

Tags: Funny

Eric Costello has really

March 21, 2001 by Michael Boyle

progressed with his CSS layout techniques page at glish.com. More good stuff there than you can shake a stick at.

Tags: CSS, Design, Layout

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