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Drupal and Community Sites We're using Drupal, an open-source content management system, in our Hong Kong University class on new media, for a class project about Hong Kong politics. I'm amazed at the progress this software has made since the last time I looked at it -- an assortment of enhancements that make it powerful and flexible. It's not easy
Copyright Cartel Goes for Big Score Wired News: Senate May Ram Copyright Bill. Several lobbying camps from different industries and ideologies are joining forces to fight an overhaul of copyright law, which they say would radically shift in favor of Hollywood and the record companies and which Congress might try to push through during a lame-duck session that begins this
Looking forward to ads in your RSS newsfeeds? Kind of depends on which end of the feed you're on, I would imagine. Anyway, that's roughly the question I'm asking over at IT Garage.
Looks like Dave Slusher got a good response to the idea of an unofficial unconference in Myrtle Beach, SC. I'd probably go myself, looking for a new place to situate for the winter, I want some place where I can get programming and writing work done. Turns out Myrtle Beach is very cheap this time of year. I've never seen
MSN Music through a partnership with GarageBand.com will host approx 150,000 of the sites songs which include the majority of the previous offerings on MP3.com [BetaNews]
Well at least it wasn't 750 people like the RIAA but 40 people will have the MPAA breathing down their necks in the last couple of days. Goes to show that the movie studio's have learned nothing from the RIAA gestapo tactics. [Yahoo]
Some very heavy comments out of the FCC recently have more than a few people concerned. The comments revolve around the FCC imposing of the rule that new Electronics equipment recognize the Broadcast flag by July 2005 and their move to invoke ancillary jurisdiction.. [Susan Crawford] thanks to Dan Gillmor for the link.
If you game online with a modified Xbox beware Microsoft is looking to kick you off their servers. I guess this is Microsoft's way of leveling the playing field and making sure that no artificial handicaps existed. I am not so sure I would want to piss a bunch of people off that are capable of doing a mod to
I used to love being in Japan because I could buy Beer 24/7 we would come home from a night of partying in Roppongi and have the Taxi driver stop at a beer machine for the ride home. Well it seems now London you are soon going to be able to purchase music from a vending machine. Time will tell
Ok boys let's kick the tires and light the fires and see if this bird will do Mach 10. Yes I typed it Mach 10. Folks that is some serious speed. [NASA X34]
Lexmark is denying that they are installing Spyware with the installation of Lexmark Connect. Instead they say it is a voluntary program that users are made aware of when they install the software. If anyone has a screen capture of this supposed notification I would like to see it. If I were a betting man I would bet the farm
I just about fell out of my chair. The company that hasn't done a thing correct in the past several years has either been taken over by Aliens or they finally figured out they have pissed off and pushed away much of their base users. I will say one thing about Solaris it was never cheap but you got what
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