Image via Wikipedia The Wizard of Waukesha, Lester William Polfuss has left the stage. But not before he gave us the Les Paul , the first multi-track recording, the world’s first commercially-produced reel-to-reel audio tape recorder and a lot of good music. Your guitar – or at least a cheaper version – gave me countless…
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Be The Hero – a new book recommendation
Okay, so this is about a book I have been recommended to read by Karen Swim. No, I have not read it, yet. But I will. The only reason I recommend it to you is because so far every book Karen recommended was a win. Not in the sense that I took everything in the…
What can you learn from the Nac Mac Feegle
Image via Wikipedia The Wee Free Men. The Nac Mac Feegle. The ones who have been expelled from Fairy Land – after breaking up the place for the thousandth time. They steal, they drink, they fight, and are mortally afraid of their names being written down – ’cause of the lawyers you know. They are…
Sound of Copyright
The copyright term extension is going forward in Brussels despite fierce opposition from the representatives of consumer rights organisations in Europe – sort of shows if Brussels looks at the interest of the voter or the lobbyists. The ORG “Sound of Copyright” Conference that took place in the European Parliament last week is over, and…
Doubling the time – Copyright term extension
I have been following the new Term Extension Directive that is going forward in the European Parliament. What does it mean? Basically, they intend to double the term of copyright for sound recordings, extending it to 90 years – that’s about 3 generations. That would mean that a song written in 1960 will not go…
Understanding art for geeks
So you have to check out this link here, one of the sets of Paul the Wine Guy. It is hillarious, and many thanks to akelatal, who pointed me to it on twitter. UPDATE: Unfortunately it seems that the set is set to private.
Reading is useful, plus it is fun.
I finished JPod from Douglas Coupland, and it was good. I liked the book, the story was good, and well, it is sort of crazy when someone puts in 30 pages of randomly generated numbers in a book – that sort of explains the thickness of the novel. The only thing I did not really…
‘How to…” blogging books means blogging IS a business at last…
Blogging has definitely arrived. You just know it when the first “101″ and “become a ….. in 24 hours” style books start to pop up. I just bought this pretty book from Margaret Mason, and read it in one sit – ok, one lay, I could not sleep and had to read something. I bought…
Sad news, but keep it cheerful
I just read on Neil Gaiman’s site that Terry Pratchett, one of my all time favourite writers has been diagnosed with Alzheimer. Folks, I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me…
All marketers are liars – the best chapter title in the book
On my way to Sofia I finished We the Media, and now I am reading All Marketers Are Liars. What I really, really loved was the part under Examples: Stories framed around worldviews the worldview titled, and exactly I loved the title: “I don’t believe marketers”*