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Home › 2008

Year: 2008

New York Times sued over Boston.com’s linking practice

By Phil Mayes Posted on December 24, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, Media No Comments Tagged with Gatehouse, New York Times

In this CNET article, GateHouse Media object on the grounds of copyright infringement because the NYT uses the headline and first sentence, but their real gripe is that it links directly to the article, not to the front page, and …

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How the Internet affects our future

By Phil Mayes Posted on December 22, 2008 Posted in Computers, Society No Comments Tagged with Google, Internet, Pinker, Wilber

Salon discusses the Internet and the two poles of “Google is making us stupid” and “the Internet will liberate humanity.” In “A Brief History of Everything”, Ken Wilber resurrected Arthur Koestler’s holons: autonomous structures that are themselves part of a …

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How a bank robber makes bail

By Phil Mayes Posted on December 18, 2008 Posted in Society No Comments Tagged with bail, Bernie Madoff, Ponzi scheme

Suppose I robbed a bank of $1 million (they don’t usually carry that much cash, but I raided the safe deposit boxes, too.)  Later that same day, I reaped as much at another bank.  I repeated that every day, all …

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Race in America

By Phil Mayes Posted on November 9, 2008 Posted in Politics, Society, Uncategorized No Comments Tagged with Election, Race

There has been much comment that this was a post-racial election.  Yes and no.  Look at the electoral shifts since 2004.  A broad swath across the center of the country voted MORE Republican than in 2004, and I can see …

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The emergence of a collective conversation

By Phil Mayes Posted on October 27, 2008 Posted in Computers, Media, Politics No Comments Tagged with Election, Obama

This election is like no other, and here’s why: it’s a populist election for the first time.  What has created that is technology: the internet, video cameras, easy video editing, YouTube and social networking sites like Digg.  In all previous …

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Get your Grammar Right

By Phil Mayes Posted on October 1, 2008 Posted in Politics No Comments Tagged with Palin

What is it with Republicans that they have such difficulty with grammar?  Here’s Palin: I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and …

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McCain’s fatal mistake?

By Phil Mayes Posted on September 1, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

It’s looking more and more as if McCain’s V.P. pick had almost zero research behind it: “According to this Republican, who would discuss internal campaign strategizing only on condition of anonymity, the McCain team used little more than a Google …

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Apparently Iraq wasn’t a “serious crisis”

By Phil Mayes Posted on August 22, 2008 Posted in Politics No Comments

In the Washington Post, McCain called the Georgia invasion “the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.” So the US must have invaded Iraq despite it’s not being a serious crisis.  I guess 9/11 wasn’t …

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Microsoft Patents the Page Up and Page Down Operation

By Phil Mayes Posted on August 22, 2008 Posted in Computers, Intellectual Property No Comments

ITWire carries this story about yet another stupid patent.

Jon Stewart the Newsman

By Phil Mayes Posted on August 19, 2008 Posted in Humor, Politics, Society No Comments

“Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?” asks the NYTimes: “they’ve done so in ways that straight news programs cannot: speaking truth to power in blunt, sometimes profane language” “Jon Stewart [is] as substantive as network news” Indiana …

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