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Who owns your comments?
I say "we" because it very literally is a we thing. When you place a comment on my blog, you're adding something to the record here, but you're also adding to the library of your written work. So the question is: "Who owns the comment?" I gave it some thought, before reading Daniel's essay -- and I decided that it's a mutual thing. I own the collection of comments on my blog, and you own the comments you've placed on my blog and all others. I should be able to back up a complete set of comments on my blog, and also back up a copy of all comments I've placed on all blogs. Technically it's not easy or even possible in most contexts, but with Disqus it certainly is. Then I read Daniel's piece and found that he more or less came to the same conclusion. Breaking news: There are crazy people on the Internet I loved the headline on this Salon piece so much I had to retweet it. And I'd add -- this article explains why the only people who pay attention to right-wing bloggers these days are other right-wing bloggers. In 2004 they beat Kerry by being the crabby bastard idiots of the Internet. Time for a new schtick, we figured that one out. Not live-blogging the SteveNote I'm probably the only one who isn't. And I'm probably going to have to buy a new iPhone later today, I have no idea. In the meantime it's really upsetting watching all the geek journos scrambling for scraps. Which raises a simple question. 1. Why don't they broadcast Apple keynotes on MSNBC or CNN? All this makeshift jury-rigged michegas. It was cute for a while, but this has been going on for 25 years! Of course someone must be live-screening it via Qik or somesuch. If you know of any please post a comment here. Yahoo Live has over 2700 viewers. The quality sucks. I'm watching another one that so far has pretty good quality, so sorry I'm not going to advertise a link. :-( No I'm not going to pay-per-view for an infomercial! Geez Louise. What is it about Apple that inspires such insipid submission. |
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