Links For Wednesday 17th June 2009
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The work of Libby Bulloff. Libby is a photographer and maker of things is based in Seattle, and currently accepting commissions for new work. I mention this because while I have a lot of friends and acquaintances who take pictures that I admire, there are few whose work so consistently puts a smile on my face – there's a level of wit and warmth about her work that takes considerable skill to pull off, and I am, obviously, bitterly jealous. If you're in that neck of the woods, and looking for artist for anything, you could do a lot worse that commissioning her.
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Hands up if you find this surprising. Right, you, you and you clearly haven't been paying attention. See me after class.
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Yes, I'm linking to two of his pieces today. This is because he are smart and klever.
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Whenever someone quotes me the anti-filesharing lobby's line about lost revenue, I'm going to point them at this, until they can provide me with fully sourced, scientifically gathered data produce by a neutral third party with no vested interested in the matter. Because Goldacre's right (as per) – I've never actually seen any attribution for any of the figures I've heard about the cost of piracy.
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Funny, plus you never know when it'll come in handy. Also, clever promo.
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Hmmm. Should be able to knock up a basic website to do this in a matter of days. UI refinements and smart parsing of entries might take longer, but the basic functionality wouldn't take long. Now just to find a few spare days…
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Godo, clear explanation of it, that hits the key point: while I get the idea of making sure people own their own content, and give away no more rights than they have to, and why this is therefore better than using loads of hosted services, the thing is that people are still having to give away control to Opera, instead of a bunch of third parties, and there is no particular reason why to pick Opera over all the others…