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Tim Wu’s piece on Harry Potter and copyright in Slate…
… is a must-read if you’re interested in the extent to which an author controls the interpretation and discussion of a work. It’s in today’s issue.
Parting shots on how media is changing…
…before I take the rest of the year off from blogging… especially since seem to have already stopped blogging back in November– oy! So much is going on and I’ve been traveling so much that I’m going to put my lack-of-blogging guilt on hold until the start of January. So, before I exit stage left, [...]
On the reliability of Wikipedia
A reporter at the USC college newspaper, the Daily Trojan, reached out to ask my opinion about a recent story in the Chronicle of Higher Education that showed that somebody with a USC IP address was changing the Wikipedia entry about the school. I found myself spending a few minutes writing out an email in [...]
Now Tracking: “Quarterlife”
On Wednesday, Daily Variety reported the following: Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz are undertaking an ambitious new-media project that will see them revive onetime ABC pilot “Quarterlife” and distribute it via MySpace, as well as create their own social-networking site. Duo will produce and variously write and direct episodes of the show, which centers on [...]
More on “iCarly”…
Back in mid-July, a short L.A. Times item about Nickelodeon’s new iCarly series caught my eye. Today, USA Today has a substantial article about the show. One new tidbit of information is that the website will have longer versions of the user-submitted video than what air on TeenNICK, which brings to my mind some questions [...]
