Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Quotes du jour

Forbes: Drug companies are barred from claiming that a drug cures a disease. What they say is strictly regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. This ruling creates a similar situation for technology companies. What you claim is now subject to liability. The source there is "Bill Rosenblatt, a consultant on digital-media law and author of a book on the subject, Digital Rights Management: Business and Technology (Wiley, 2001)." Full employment for consultants and attorneys. Business be damned.

Ben Hammersley: Declaring filesharing illegal across the net because it’s illegal in the US is like declaring the web broken because it’s censored in China. Brings to mind the quote from Dean yesterday.

Have a Live8 ball

David Sifry: Become one of 50 bloggers going backstage to the Live 8 Concerts. Here's Technorati's Live8 page. Tag: live8.

The pixeled word

print.google.com is up. You need to be a member (free, so far) to see the results. But, as usual, they are impressive.

Look up Cluetrain, f'rinstance. Google finds 144 books that mention it. Only one so far with "podcasting". None with "podcast", "podcasts" or "podcaster".

Biggest oversight: J.D. Lasica's excellent new book Darknet isn't archived yet; although a sponored link to Amazon will help sell it to you.

Bonus link: Euan's gob-smacking discoveries about his hometown in Scotland.

Thanks to Chris Locke for the pointer.