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Dynamics of the Wikipedia

There has been a lot written about the Wikipedia lately and most of it pretty negative. So today when I saw Dave Winer link to an essay on the subject I expected another flame fest. But what has been posted is a viewpoint that I am sure many of us will agree on. A key phrase that starts the article

RIAA pretty happy with itself and happy about suing people

I just read a interview with some of the folks at the RIAA and like normal they seem to be pretty happy with themselves for suing thousands of people each year. They are also very happy with the way their lobby effort in congress has paid off. I have been advocating for a long time that people start picking up

Restore Web Braille Petition

Seems copyright fears has caused a site that was of immense value to the visually impaired. Here is a segment of a e-mail I received. [www.RestoreWebBraille.com] "Essentially the National Library Service For The Blind (NLS) pulled the plug on a service called Web Braille that allowed only authenticated users to download Braille files in a BRF format of books and

A Picture is worth a 1000 Words!

I have been talking to people about Second Life for a few weeks now and the implications for people like me that are in Hawaii, and cannot afford to travel all the time to some of these conferences and other meetings. If you do not understand and want to instantly get, it click on the link and have a AH

Recording Industry says it’s ok now to Rip CD’s for you MP3 Player

Well it's funny that the RIAA is saying that it is now legal to RIP your CD's onto your MP3 players. Don't they realize that the entire world has been ripping CD's onto MP3 players for a long time. These fools are just showing how stupid they really are. They actually asked the government to change the copyright rules. This

Happy Birthday Geek News Central!

Well this is post 6033, and today Geek News Central turns 4 years old. What a ride it has been. If you would have told me that this blog would have been largely responsible for my book deal which lead to the launch of two companies, and associated formation of new media networks with, Podcast Connect, and RawVoice. With me