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Paying off the RIAA

2 years ago

The government has given the property rights to the recording industry. Although attempting to regain fair use rights is a noble cause, why don’t we ever look at this from the other way and pay off the RIAA to regain these rights? The economics would say that it’s a more realistic goal.

9rules Round 5 is currently in session, and I’ve applied to the network. To all 9rules readers that may happen to venture over here, I’ve written a little open letter to the 9rules administrators as to why hyalineskies should be admitted into the network.

Wagging the long tail

2 years ago

I sat down with Chris Anderson, Wired editor-in-chief, and had a conversation on the material presented in his best-seller The Long Tail, presenting a few sharp criticisms as well as a bit of support.

On the way to a football game last week, a student in front of me asked his friend who Jennifer Granholm was (the incumbent governor of the State of Michigan,) and whether or not she was a member of “his” party. Will this absolute political apathy be the marque of our generation?

Harnessing the grid

2 years, 1 month ago

hyalineskies will be migrating to better servers on the (mt) Media Temple network throughout Friday, 20 October 2006. The migration shouldn’t cause more than a few minutes of downtime, but the new features will be great.

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