YouTube is courting the music video industry with the hopes of “in six to 12 months, maybe 18 months, to have every music video ever created up on YouTube,” (says co-founder Steve Chen). I haven’t made my fondness for YouTube a secret, and I specifically hope that they’ll be working with music video providers from …
With the help of the 1024px WordPress theme by Andreas Viklund, this blog is sporting a new layout more tightly integrated with the rest of johnthomson.org. I shouldn’t toot my horn, but I couldn’t be happier.
John Tierney writes in today’s Times about a pilot screening program at Dulles Airport (sorry, TimesSelect only). Rather than bog everyone down in long lines, screeners at Dulles speed everyone through while looking at individuals for “unusual behavior like sweating, rigid posture, clenched fists.” The results? The screeners were looking for telltale body language of …
In case you don’t have the time to read Battalle’s The Search, a pretty good substitute might be an article in today’s Washington Post (Search Me?). The article discusses a number of issues around Google’s book project which got me thinking: could a bit of creative lawyering and calling Google a “library” be a possible …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
John doesn't update his blog often, and many of the thoughts are probably half-baked. While the web has sort of an eternal memory, the current and future reader is urged not to take all of this too seriously.
Think of this blog as "John thinking out loud."
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