This is just fuel to the ire
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Already on record as calling the Patriots classless, Chargers star LaDainian Tomlinson yesterday ratcheted up his enmity for Bill Belichick &amp; Co. after learning that the NFL is investigating whether the Patriots spied on the Jets in Sunday's victory at the Meadowlands.
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Germany taxes, rather than subsidizes, biodiesel. That's killing the industry.
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If you're a regular user of Twitter you're probably quite familiar with this image.  They've tried lots of variants, making it funny, or cute, with pictures of LOL Cats, doing cute things with screw drivers, but the pictures aren't funny for long, the more you see them, the more tiresome they get. Then I had an idea they could be used for a good cause.  Yeah that does it!
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There's been a mostly fantastic discussion about fair use in this neighborhood for the last few days.  It started when a photograph of Lane Hartwell's was used in a video spoof of the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire."  The first I heard of this was in a Twitter post of hers where she said she was turning off access to her entire Flickr collection because this picture was used without permission. A series of communications with the people who did the video resulted in the video being taken down. Later Mike Arrington, who is a lawyer, wrote a piece saying she didn't have right on her side, and that the video's use of her picture was probably fair use. I found Mike's piece compelling. Others took offense. It thought it was a useful part of the discussion. I understand Ms Hartwell's point of view. I hate it when people copy a whole post of mine and paste it into theirs. But then I grab bits of images and put them on my blog and people rarely complain. The blogosphere is built on being loose about copyright and fair use.  I'm doing a deal with a content company and all these issues are coming up. We haven't been able to write a contract that covers all the things they want covered and make it possible for me to do what I need to do, and they want my product to work. It's a real mess we're in. Bloggers are supposed to be radicals when it comes to fair use and copyright, but that generalization doesn't work with many creative people. Hartwell's position in some ways is like the RIAA or MPAA, who bloggers often dismiss as clueless. How can we have it both ways? How can some defend her position yet not defend the entertainment industry? There's a lot to discuss here, and a lot of the discussion on the blogs has been informative and respectful. Not all of it, but to an unusually high degree.  So, I am interested in doing an in person "flash conference" on the subject of fair use in a few weeks. I'd say next week if it weren't Christmas. Most conferences are so boring. I want to do a conf on a hot subject when it's still hot in the blogosphere. This may be a good subject for such a quickly organized conference. What do you think of the flash conference idea for this??
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Tycho:  We have done things in the past which were not "for" you, or anybody else for that matter.  That isn't what's goin' on now.  What's going on now is we are shoveling dense chunks of fanservice into the site's iron belly, and increased fervor in that chamber makes each comic bend and groan to please you.
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If you want to hear someone trash  the mutual fund industry, log onto FundAlarm  (http://www.fundalarm.com).
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There is nothing stimulating about this album.
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Only 'folksonomy' inspires more fear and loathing It's official: "folksonomy", "blogosphere", "netiquette" and "blook" are among the net-spawned terms which should be cast down into the eternal fires of hell, AFP reports.â¦
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Julia Roberts ought to be embarrassed to be involved with Earth Biofuels.
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I put mainstream media in the same league with comic books. The goal of the media is to sell. When it comes to any message coming from the media, caveat emptor.
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I&#39;m tired of letting the bloggers have all the fun, so I figured I&#39;d better come up with my own conspiracy theory to explain the much-discussed but mostly meaningless
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Blog: Whoever thought nuclear would only be the second least popular fuel?
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I find Rocky Anderson's crusade to "stay in the news cycle" a little over the top. His arguments against the "crimes" of the Bush administration are a little like the pot calling the kettle black.
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Sexual harassment, dog fighting, brawling, gambling, steroids, and blood doping. Yawn.
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Yes, it's dirt-cheap and will mobilize people throughout the developing world. And that is exactly why it poses a threat to the environment and global energy supplies.
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Many Fools think it's just a bunch of hooey.
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Anything that reinforces the role of fossil fuels Â particularly oil Â as the industrial worldÂs primary energy source is bad, not good.