Cory Doctorow published an end-of-year retrospective in his blog, where he put links from 20, 15, 10, 5 and 1 year ago, from between December 24th and January 7th. Actually, he puts these back links in every post he writes (which is really cool). But the longer time period of the retrospective post makes it […]
In the age of huge content curators (Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon) what good is blogging anymore? Today I read this great column by Cory Doctorow, where he describes how blogging has helped his writing career. In the post, he also makes an analogy that really reverberated with me: the word “blogging”, originally a portmanteau of […]
Cory Doctorow from BoingBoing has recently discussed the case of Landmark Digital Services (Creators of “Shazam”, an audio fingerprinting tool) threatening a guy who was discussing how to implement an audio-fingerprinting algorithm. To make a long story short, Landmark Digital Services (“Shazam”), accused Roy van Rjin of infringing on their patents by discussing how audio-fingerprinting […]