Newsy bloggy things

Icon utterly unrelated. I just haven't used it in forever.

I'm fairly certain this first one will show up in fannish circles regardless of whether I mention it, but hey, news!

Record Label Picks Copyright Fight — With The Wrong Guy (NPR)

One day, "the computer bots finally got around to noticing that I had used a clip from this song," he says. "Liberation Music then fired off threats of a lawsuit to me if I didn't take it down."

At first, YouTube took it down. But being a copyright attorney, Lessig knew his rights. He was entitled to use these clips in a lecture under a legal doctrine known as fair use.

"If I'm using it for purposes of critique, then I can use if even if I don't have permission of the original copyright owner," he says.

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What Gets Lost In Our Carefully Crafted Online Conversations (NPR)

The tendency to tailor our online speak is making it harder to have real life conversations.
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Turkle is worried that as we get used to conversations without any boring bits, we won't be able to talk the same way, and that the prevalence of online conversations is forcing some of us to learn how to have face-to-face conversations again.

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And two things about Clive Thompson's Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Slate, via bluemeridian)
Is Google Wrecking Our Memory?

Nope. It’s much, much weirder than that.

Technology making us "Smarter than You Think" (audio - On The Media from WNYC)

Brooke talks with Thompson about how all of the YouTube videos, blogs, Twitter feeds, Wikipedia pages – from the mundane to the informative – have produced a unique human intelligence.

Which I really should listen to again before I keep telling people about it, but the bits I heard on the radio were interesting! Possibly a relevant point with respect to the self-editing thing above.

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I've just realized that Joe Manganiello is Stanley Kowalski in the production of Streetcar Named Desire that I'm going to see tomorrow.

The fact that literally the only role I've seen him in was Big Dick Richie in Magic Mike has now become more embarrassing than that time I walked past Zjelko Ivanek and the only role I could name to my curious friend was That FBI Agent from Live Free or Die Hard.