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The new way to listen to music is “on demand.”

By ottonomy on October 7, 2009

I think there has been a change in how people experience music in the last couple years, brought on by the buildup of services that offer streaming songs. This follows up in the vein of the previous trend in music discovery, illegal downloading, which the music industry labeled “piracy.” The new streaming paradigm avoids the [...]

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Knee-Jerking neutrality

By ottonomy on October 6, 2009

I’m on a ton of political email lists from different sides. I saw Dick Armey’s big push to have his anti-big-government rally on 9/12 from both angles, I get ACLU’s updates, environmental letters, NYT news summaries, the whole gamut. I agree and disagree with each source some of the time, but am usually interested to [...]

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Re: “Finally, A Plan to Save Newspapers” by Connie Schultz

By ottonomy on June 30, 2009

This rant was written in response to a column by the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Connie Schultz. She argues that Internet news aggregation is killing traditional newspapers and that dismantling the public’s right to quote the day’s news articles is the solution to maintain newspapers’ profitability. She quotes her paper’s lawyer:
“It’s unfair competition with unjust enrichment,” [...]

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The AP’s fair use battle

By ottonomy on April 19, 2009

This post follows from a couple links I posted on Facebook recently. There is a conflict between an old model and a new one. The giants of media are on one side, and “blogs” are on the other. Similar to most conflicts about copyright, there is a division between the old guard and people who [...]

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I have joined an Open Ed course! (Course Links)

By ottonomy on April 2, 2009

http://ottonomy.net/drupal/?q=node/12
I’ve joined an open education course offered by Mozilla that starts this morning. The above link doesn’t have anything there yet, but if you’re interested in open ed, subscribe to the course feed link below.
”’[http://ottonomy.net/drupal Nate Otto: "Free Schooler"/Writer]”’
* Email: nate AT ottonomy.net
* Based in: Eugene, OR
* Blog: http://ottonomy.net/blog (unrelated to this course)
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http://bit.ly/cD1QCy Mmm.. Google Labs' new public data tool makes some cool animated graphs of some large datasets they're testing on.

Monday 21:03

Bookmarked a link: New Google Tool Is Crack For Data Nerds

Monday 21:03

RT @chrislehmann: "The More Open We Are, the Better Education Will Be. We must increase our opportunities to be generous." #tedxnyed (David Wiley)

Saturday 8:50

RT @MyEugene: Check out these little cuties! --> Hand-made electric cars serve a niche market in Japan http://ow.ly/1eNyE

Friday 14:41

I tweeted about media as a service last night and woke up to a new follow by @gleonhard who's been sayin this for a while. :) #followfriday

Friday 14:34

The future of E-Books Article's "geeky side note" on need for "url" for pub'd documents is what i've been thinking http://on.wsj.com/45nDMw

Friday 2:59

RT @jamtoday: Protesting the California Education Cuts: Across CA,  thousands of students and educators are protesting throughou... http://bit.ly/akIAw7

Friday 1:36

http://is.gd/9Co67 NYT sums up modern patents: “The net effect is that they decrease innovation, and in the end, the public loses out.”

Wednesday 10:14

RT @christianvonm: A la cama que mañana me tengo que levantar a las 3 de la mañana =S ... un abrazo a todos y ¡¡¡¡FUERZA CHILE!!!!

Monday 23:05

Re: http://is.gd/9tUm7 -- oh c'mon. NYT's Harwood ignored that Democrats didn't stick together to stand up against anything 2001-08.

Monday 23:01