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A Long-Tailed Creative Yawp

(Note: This is a long one.) Reading “The slow decline of the blockbuster” on Ars Technica reminds me that this Long Tail stuff is something on which I’ve been wanting to write something intelligent for a long time now. This might all just be techno-hippy michegas in the end, but I’m really excited about the [...]

Urban Birdsong: Copyright and Cores of Culture

Mass media has done such a good job at embedding their copyright into culture that it has become culture itself. Source: apophenia: when media becomes culture: rethinking copyright issues I’ve been meaning to write something about just this notion for awhile now, but haven’t felt like I had anything good to say. But this is why [...]