A faded ink pen drawing of a half naked black man sitting on an examination bench. A white doctor c.1940's stands by him making a note on a clipboard. Dialog caption line at the bottom; "Doctor: You're lucky to have been specially selected for this." Scanned and a secondary caption in raster rendered font at the top; "Tuskegee"
On Wednesday, I purchased the domain name plagiarismtoday.com and pushed my test site live. For the first time that I know of, the Internet has a regularly-updated Web site dedicated to the issue of online plagiarism, content theft and copyright infringement.
I've spent the past few days trying to promote it and improve it. It's been a wild ride to say the least, but it's been a lot of fun and very exciting. I'm now more glad than ever that I took up this venture up and I am starting to see the potential for it to go very far.
My reason for starting to feel that way is that, shockingly enough, there's a lot of interest in this type of blog. Though it's not a subject people like to talk about, at least not until some gets caught doing it, it seems that almost everyone wants to know more about it. All of the feedback on the concept has been very positive and several have offered me their support via email.
However, since it is such an unseemly topic, I've had a real problem getting people to voluntarily link to it. It's one of those things that everyone wants to read, but no one wants to promote or connect themselves with. Right now the site has little traffic and most that it does get comes from trackbacks, a message board signature I use on a couple of copyright forums and some technorati searches. No one, so far, has expressed any interest in linking to it or supporting it publicly.
Also on the down side, I've been struggling with the gear shift. I've been in the creative writing world for so long that shifting back to a journalistic style is very hard. Though my writing has always had a slight reporter-like tone to it, I'm having to relearn how to work when you can't simply write what you want, when you want. There are rules that must be followed when writing news and I'm adjusting back to that, slowly.
One of the things that surprise me though was how quickly word travels with blogs. I put the site live and added a new counter to it and, within four hours, I was getting traffic from Newsweek's site. I had mentioned one of their columnists in a story as being a victim of plagiarism and Newsweek heard about it through Technorati or another ping service and then added a link to my story under the columnist's subsection of their site. It was all completely automatic and happened almost instantly.
Finally though, I've learned a great deal about the impact that such a blog can have. Even with so little traffic to the site, the reactions people have been giving have been incredible. Unlike Raven's Rants, which always struggled to be taken remotely seriously, PT has had little trouble doing so. Though I can only speculate what the difference is, I think the subject matter and the approach have a major role in it.
Anyway, I'm going to write more about this soon I'm certain. I'm excited about this site but I don't want anyone to think that I'm going to forget about Raven's Rants. Much about the site is making me appreciate RR all the more. It's quite freeing in many ways.
Still, I do have one final plea. I've been considering doing a different theme for the new site but really lack the Wordpress skinning knowledge to make it happen. I did some heavy modification to the theme I did use, but starting from scratch has left me intimidated and I don't like the thought of having even a semi-stock theme.
I'm an old-school HTML guy, not a PHP junkie. If anyone out there is in a position to help and old timer get along in the new age, I'd be very appreciative.
Regardless, it's late and I need to go to bed. I have a birthday party to go tomorrow. Posted by Raven at 01:15 AM
"One of the things that surprise me though was how quickly word travels with blogs." Yeah, hehe, me too! Not! But keep at it, I'm sure in a few years you'll notice a few more things about blogs.
Yeah...I wanted to uh comment on post one five three six eight six four and uh... just sec got replay it... uh six. Yeah and uh [sound of bus passing] so anyway... hang on got a call coming in... uh where was I? Oh right.. that's about it I guess. Bye!
Your plan does/could work. The loser is the VCs and subscribers that feed money into the 'service' that is 'stealing' your products. Which in this scenario don't even need to be provided, as the users will do that for you. Bonus checks all around! And be sure to only kill it off once enough cash is accumulated and you've the milked the correct amount of fees for the lawyers.
The earshape can add a spatial dimension to this, because it can cause the ear to be sensitive in different directions for different frequencies. So it is not a question of "either or", ear shapes and frequency analysis by the cilia work together.
Thanks for pointing that out, I had not fully thought it out. So FFT-like post processing step(s) would, or could, be effective in simulating most of the function of the cillia. Cool, thanks. Good work so far, keep at it.
A single (ignore the pair for direction for a moment) detector element is not going to get any accurate (3D) results, no matter how good the post processing.
Also the shape of the ear is minor in comparison to the "array" of information from the messages the individual hairs(cillia) send to the brain. Not saying they're wasting their time, just that it will likely be sub-optimal by design. Also I'd bet the hair pattern(layout) is more important than the over all shape too. But then IANAB* so what do I know.
Somehow I don't see them[ABCnews] showcasing any blog resembling the criteria of effects they state, and crap like --This year, for the first time, bloggers were permitted-- sounds like the clatter of hooves it is. What is the USA now? Mugabie's playland!?! Freepress + Permits !cool
But one should hardly be surprised at this. This is a company(s) that runs or feeds into ~4500 radio stations, has a news site, ~10 broadcast stations [all heavy news content engines], in the largest market areas, and has such key assets such as the Discovery[eioeios] etc, etc. Generating, manufacturing, and provoking news is what they do. Bloggers just regurgitate it [right?]. They hope as earned assets. But there it all goes a little sour on them.
Only on page two do they hint of those pesky "bedroom journalist" who might note their own trial balloons. Hello Jay Ingram! Plug any bogus missile systems lately? Was that one, here's a towel.
One should also think that any bloggers that riff off rosebuds might be "right out" too. Oops. Not a trace of those bloggers who might make fun of their corporate groups foolish move to trade a potential 125 million in tax write-offs for the Second Fat Man's 250 Million or Moore[sic]. Did I miss the bag. Put it in cold water, it will stop the fabric from staining.
Did I have a point? Naw, just a fun chance to take the piss out of their[ABCnews] attempt to appropriate our thunder [ok, so we bang on tinfoil sheets, yell rude words, and flash the lights. But it works for us].
To both readers and writers --Temba, his arms wide & Mirab, his sails unfurled!
If you really wanted to know. It's not about the movies themselves. It is the vast array of supporting *things* that have been created in the SW universe. Often by someone other than Lucas. Many if not most geeks here recognize the huge amount of work and thought that went into making these films[and other SW products games, books etc]. Lucas may arguably be only one level above B-trash but he inspires people [artists, designers, writers] to build on to his ideas. No small talent.
Oh and an on topic part: Good to see more builders getting noticed outside the LEGO communities.
D: Lego D&D Players of D&D[with LEGO] and other game systems are legion. As are the armies. Several rule-systems for play are also out there.
E: Lego Half life There are CAD models[in easy format for conversion] for many of the parts go nuts. Sprite based(using POV to render frames) has also been done for a few games over the years.
In sports the filtering is much more drastic than in books or music.
No not in that way. You and AC below both I think miss the point. A big part of the draw of sport is: "I did better this time" and "...look at plucky number 42 in his first outing.." etc. Not just the winners.
As you pointed out Station/POP's can act as a filter. But I might suggest that the open field (/. and other non-censored[1] media) gives more room to explore new things. No place on the record store shelves for Flash-animations(example only) collected onto CD but there just might be later on. Hard to fit new things in when people have established ideas as to what is Classical or Pop(to reuse your examples).
These filters are why most if not near all of editorial cartoonists are white male 25-55. These "filters" are why many of the people here are here and not reading Main-stream-content.
The whole bunch of these fools think that there is some Content-Value in the control of the media. Some how the exclusion of some parts is enhancing the parts they let you see. That their view of what is good and bad is Added-Value. I am not so sure they do add anything. Nor do I think that never allowing the bad-stuff to be seen will do anything but obscure the contrast.
Imagine sports where we only get to watch only the winner play alone.
Look at those cute ones at the hive mouth. Just standing there flapping their wings for fun.
If there was a "catalyst" that could be made to fill the graygoo scenario it would have been made already. Worst case Ebola or less as Laws Physics still in effect for next few epochs.
Refining/building useful stuff might work out but think MudDomes, as in years, not minutes. New NanoTech 2.1 Faster than slimemold!
So why even bother with anything other than good old crimes. So he used NANOTECH produced Arsenic It's still murder war crime whatever... and "so on" down the list of FUD.
I thought the last point(in art.) about selling off NASA's assets to fund missions was odd. Could end up scrubbing as some damn collector already resold the booster.
Slashdot Mirror
Forgetting to change
http-//www.vcodec.com in it{see last line of 'therms'} to zcodec.com is the best laugh I've had today.
A faded ink pen drawing of a half naked black man sitting on an examination bench. A white doctor c.1940's stands by him making a note on a clipboard. Dialog caption line at the bottom; "Doctor: You're lucky to have been specially selected for this."
Scanned and a secondary caption in raster rendered font at the top; "Tuskegee"
August 06, 2005
What I've Learned About Blogging
On Wednesday, I purchased the domain name plagiarismtoday.com and pushed my test site live. For the first time that I know of, the Internet has a regularly-updated Web site dedicated to the issue of online plagiarism, content theft and copyright infringement.
I've spent the past few days trying to promote it and improve it. It's been a wild ride to say the least, but it's been a lot of fun and very exciting. I'm now more glad than ever that I took up this venture up and I am starting to see the potential for it to go very far.
My reason for starting to feel that way is that, shockingly enough, there's a lot of interest in this type of blog. Though it's not a subject people like to talk about, at least not until some gets caught doing it, it seems that almost everyone wants to know more about it. All of the feedback on the concept has been very positive and several have offered me their support via email.
However, since it is such an unseemly topic, I've had a real problem getting people to voluntarily link to it. It's one of those things that everyone wants to read, but no one wants to promote or connect themselves with. Right now the site has little traffic and most that it does get comes from trackbacks, a message board signature I use on a couple of copyright forums and some technorati searches. No one, so far, has expressed any interest in linking to it or supporting it publicly.
Also on the down side, I've been struggling with the gear shift. I've been in the creative writing world for so long that shifting back to a journalistic style is very hard. Though my writing has always had a slight reporter-like tone to it, I'm having to relearn how to work when you can't simply write what you want, when you want. There are rules that must be followed when writing news and I'm adjusting back to that, slowly.
One of the things that surprise me though was how quickly word travels with blogs. I put the site live and added a new counter to it and, within four hours, I was getting traffic from Newsweek's site. I had mentioned one of their columnists in a story as being a victim of plagiarism and Newsweek heard about it through Technorati or another ping service and then added a link to my story under the columnist's subsection of their site. It was all completely automatic and happened almost instantly.
Finally though, I've learned a great deal about the impact that such a blog can have. Even with so little traffic to the site, the reactions people have been giving have been incredible. Unlike Raven's Rants, which always struggled to be taken remotely seriously, PT has had little trouble doing so. Though I can only speculate what the difference is, I think the subject matter and the approach have a major role in it.
Anyway, I'm going to write more about this soon I'm certain. I'm excited about this site but I don't want anyone to think that I'm going to forget about Raven's Rants. Much about the site is making me appreciate RR all the more. It's quite freeing in many ways.
Still, I do have one final plea. I've been considering doing a different theme for the new site but really lack the Wordpress skinning knowledge to make it happen. I did some heavy modification to the theme I did use, but starting from scratch has left me intimidated and I don't like the thought of having even a semi-stock theme.
I'm an old-school HTML guy, not a PHP junkie. If anyone out there is in a position to help and old timer get along in the new age, I'd be very appreciative.
Regardless, it's late and I need to go to bed. I have a birthday party to go tomorrow.
Posted by Raven at 01:15 AM
"One of the things that surprise me though was how quickly word travels with blogs."
Yeah, hehe, me too! Not! But keep at it, I'm sure in a few years you'll notice a few more things about blogs.
...Uh hello?
... just sec got replay it... uh six. Yeah and uh [sound of bus passing] so anyway... hang on got a call coming in ... uh where was I? Oh right.. that's about it I guess. Bye!
Yeah...I wanted to uh comment on post one five three six eight six four and uh
I think the above reply'er miss your point.
Your plan does/could work. The loser is the VCs and subscribers that feed money into the 'service' that is 'stealing' your products. Which in this scenario don't even need to be provided, as the users will do that for you. Bonus checks all around! And be sure to only kill it off once enough cash is accumulated and you've the milked the correct amount of fees for the lawyers.
The earshape can add a spatial dimension to this, because it can cause the ear to be sensitive in different directions for different frequencies. So it is not a question of "either or", ear shapes and frequency analysis by the cilia work together.
Thanks for pointing that out, I had not fully thought it out. So FFT-like post processing step(s) would, or could, be effective in simulating most of the function of the cillia. Cool, thanks. Good work so far, keep at it.
Or more correctly Cillia.
A single (ignore the pair for direction for a moment) detector element is not going to get any accurate (3D) results, no matter how good the post processing.
Also the shape of the ear is minor in comparison to the "array" of information from the messages the individual hairs(cillia) send to the brain. Not saying they're wasting their time, just that it will likely be sub-optimal by design. Also I'd bet the hair pattern(layout) is more important than the over all shape too. But then IANAB* so what do I know.
(*I Am Not A Bat)
The "open source" metaphor just doesn't work here, I'm afraid.
But what if I tried anyway?
Somehow I don't see them[ABCnews] showcasing any blog resembling the criteria of effects they state, and crap like --This year, for the first time, bloggers were permitted-- sounds like the clatter of hooves it is. What is the USA now? Mugabie's playland!?! Freepress + Permits !cool
But one should hardly be surprised at this. This is a company(s) that runs or feeds into ~4500 radio stations, has a news site, ~10 broadcast stations [all heavy news content engines], in the largest market areas, and has such key assets such as the Discovery[eioeios] etc, etc. Generating, manufacturing, and provoking news is what they do. Bloggers just regurgitate it [right?]. They hope as earned assets. But there it all goes a little sour on them.
Only on page two do they hint of those pesky "bedroom journalist" who might note their own trial balloons. Hello Jay Ingram! Plug any bogus missile systems lately? Was that one, here's a towel.
One should also think that any bloggers that riff off rosebuds might be "right out" too. Oops. Not a trace of those bloggers who might make fun of their corporate groups foolish move to trade a potential 125 million in tax write-offs for the Second Fat Man's 250 Million or Moore[sic]. Did I miss the bag. Put it in cold water, it will stop the fabric from staining.
Did I have a point? Naw, just a fun chance to take the piss out of their[ABCnews] attempt to appropriate our thunder [ok, so we bang on tinfoil sheets, yell rude words, and flash the lights. But it works for us].
To both readers and writers --Temba, his arms wide & Mirab, his sails unfurled!
If you really wanted to know. It's not about the movies themselves. It is the vast array of supporting *things* that have been created in the SW universe. Often by someone other than Lucas. Many if not most geeks here recognize the huge amount of work and thought that went into making these films[and other SW products games, books etc].
Lucas may arguably be only one level above B-trash but he inspires people [artists, designers, writers] to build on to his ideas. No small talent.
Oh and an on topic part:
Good to see more builders getting noticed outside the LEGO communities.
Go build it!
Pedantic [LEGO]Geek mode on
A: Lego Army men
Many fine examples already exist for filling units in most era's.
B: Lego Star trek
Trek is often done. Tho Blake's 7 is more hip.
C: Lego Warhammer 40k
A whole[all units] Dark Eldar army and ideas for modeling units for other powers can be found.
D: Lego D&D
Players of D&D[with LEGO] and other game systems are legion. As are the armies. Several rule-systems for play are also out there.
E: Lego Half life
There are CAD models[in easy format for conversion] for many of the parts go nuts. Sprite based(using POV to render frames) has also been done for a few games over the years.
F: Lego programming department
Cluster em.
PDG mode off [/;-)
Picture of one for laptops
from
Fuelcell.org
you may now mod this as redundant.
3 dwn 1 up. The token of understanding is right there.
He gets to keep and use the money until it hits the payout?
Nice one. Stretch it by splitting SKUs and more time to use them bucks.
Program Evolution: Processes of Software Change.
M.M. Lehman and L.A. Belady.
It's obvious few of you or JL have ever read it(chapter 9).
So? Them crows sure do eat a lot of the seed corn, but I'm still plant'n.
Only public SDK is the visual-plugin. The device plug SDK is by request. So only those who have it can answer that question.
The solution of course is to rewrite it using visual API and leaching the audio. As the Visual SDK has no restrictions mentioned about hardware.
In sports the filtering is much more drastic than in books or music.
No not in that way. You and AC below both I think miss the point. A big part of the draw of sport is: "I did better this time" and "...look at plucky number 42 in his first outing.." etc. Not just the winners.
As you pointed out Station/POP's can act as a filter. But I might suggest that the open field (/. and other non-censored[1] media) gives more room to explore new things. No place on the record store shelves for Flash-animations(example only) collected onto CD but there just might be later on. Hard to fit new things in when people have established ideas as to what is Classical or Pop(to reuse your examples).
[1] Small c but can be big in some cases.
Filters!
These filters are why most if not near all of editorial cartoonists are white male 25-55. These "filters" are why many of the people here are here and not reading Main-stream-content.
The whole bunch of these fools think that there is some Content-Value in the control of the media. Some how the exclusion of some parts is enhancing the parts they let you see. That their view of what is good and bad is Added-Value. I am not so sure they do add anything. Nor do I think that never allowing the bad-stuff to be seen will do anything but obscure the contrast.
Imagine sports where we only get to watch only the winner play alone.
Then Java will be hyper-optimised for WinLand and fade off the radar for good.
High level protocols are the future not P/B/X/J/JS* crap.
Thbbbb!
* Pcode, VBasic, ActiveX, Java, MoMetaBetta, Com Dom It's all crap!
But be sure that some idiot will introduce a new one seconds from now.
Look at those cute ones at the hive mouth. Just standing there flapping their wings for fun.
If there was a "catalyst" that could be made to fill the graygoo scenario it would have been made already. Worst case Ebola or less as Laws Physics still in effect for next few epochs.
Refining/building useful stuff might work out but think MudDomes, as in years, not minutes. New NanoTech 2.1 Faster than slimemold!
So why even bother with anything other than good old crimes. So he used NANOTECH produced Arsenic It's still murder war crime whatever...
and "so on" down the list of FUD.
You forgot to put the rest of the song in. Which is Elton yelling saturday 94 times while dry humping his stool.
Selling is not everything.
I thought the last point(in art.) about selling off NASA's assets to fund missions was odd.
Could end up scrubbing as some damn collector already resold the booster.
Who do you think makes visual plugins? Dwarves???
Gah argrggg... show bottom to invaders grunt grunt... toss rocks... shit that was my lunch!!