From the article:"People say the Internet could be a lot more usable if there was a greater trust involved," he says. "At the Postal Service, people trust us."
That's truly funny. You can't even trust the post office to deliver a letter within a month. Here in Chicago, it's almost a regular occurrence that firemen put out a fire at a postal carrier's house to discover stacks of burnt mail.
"The USPS: When it absolutely, positively, has to have a 40% chance of being there by the end of next week."
It is ironic that we have an article by Jon Katz about how the new "Open Media" gets it so much more than the fat-old-slow-stupid-clueless-whatever "old media" and then in the same day, one that calls into question the very basic journalistic ethics of some of these very same "new media" people.
Yes, Jon, your darling "Open Media" gets it. At least the part about selling out.
The Cuckoo(tm) sound is copyrighted intellectual property of Cocoa Puffs and that bird thing. They also have a patent on the process of going "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs".
The EULA of a box of the cereal contains a limited-terms license whereby the consumer has the right to go "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" as long as the box of cereal lasts. Once the last puff is consumed, all rights to the patent are revoked.
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From the article:"People say the Internet could be a lot more usable if there was a greater trust involved," he says. "At the Postal Service, people trust us."
That's truly funny. You can't even trust the post office to deliver a letter within a month. Here in Chicago, it's almost a regular occurrence that firemen put out a fire at a postal carrier's house to discover stacks of burnt mail.
"The USPS: When it absolutely, positively, has to have a 40% chance of being there by the end of next week."
It is ironic that we have an article by Jon Katz about how the new "Open Media" gets it so much more than the fat-old-slow-stupid-clueless-whatever "old media" and then in the same day, one that calls into question the very basic journalistic ethics of some of these very same "new media" people.
Yes, Jon, your darling "Open Media" gets it. At least the part about selling out.
The Cuckoo(tm) sound is copyrighted intellectual property of Cocoa Puffs and that bird thing. They also have a patent on the process of going "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs".
The EULA of a box of the cereal contains a limited-terms license whereby the consumer has the right to go "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" as long as the box of cereal lasts. Once the last puff is consumed, all rights to the patent are revoked.