Monthly Archives: January 2009

Online Activity for 2009-01-12

My complete and daily online activity for you to go all voyeuristic on. 9:41am Creeva published 3 blog posts. (Show Details) Slow News Day – Google Favicon Makes Slashdot Headlines Youtube Getting Better At Copyright Infringement Detection Dealing With Different Public Domain Laws 9:43am Creeva posted 3 items on Generic. (Show Details) Dealing With Different

Youtube Getting Better At Copyright Infringement Detection

Image from here I know I just gave a post on using creative commons based works, and about the problems of dealing with international public domain laws, but Youtube has cracked down on me.   Over the past few weeks I’ve been getting e-mails from youtube that say the following: Subject: A copyright owner has claimed

Slow News Day – Google Favicon Makes Slashdot Headlines

On Friday Google rolled out a new favicon to the world. This news seems to be so powerful that it inspired a Slashdot thread with 183 comments and a story about this received 1451 Diggs at last count.  I however think just smacks of slow news day syndrome, but what can I say – I’m

Dealing With Different Public Domain Laws

Recently I started contributing to the International Music Score Library Project and I’ve ran into a small snag.   Currently I’ve only uploaded two pieces ( I did say I was going to contribute more to the public domain going forward) and I received the following message the day after I uploaded the pieces: Dear Creeva,

Online Activity for 2009-01-11

My complete and daily online activity for you to go all voyeuristic on. 1:14am Creeva updated their status on Facebook. Brent currently eating – a bowl of mashed potatoes, with taco meat, jalapenos, and hot sauce mixed in. 7:27am Creeva watched 8 videos on Hulu. (Show Details) 10:03am Creeva posted 3 items on Generic. (Show

NYPD Wants To Disable Cell Phone Service During a Terrorist Attack

Image from here While I don’t really blame NYPD from wanting to evolve and learn from other terrorists attacks, I think they are very short sighted in the idea of  blocking cell phone service in a terrorist attack.   I first read about this story on a Wired.com blog entry, I thought how asinine an idea

Just Because Something Is Online Doesn’t Mean It’s Public Domain

The above picture has nothing to do with this article. A few weeks ago I was having a discussion with one of my family members about web site design and blogging.   He stated that he was going to be starting some sort of manga/anime fan site based on a certain character.  I stated that he