Posts by jon_knox
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The following link is for the one or 2 Language pedants who follow Public Address regularly and for people who find Stephen Fry amusing.
It is Stephen Fry's "podgram" regarding Language, which seems to play only in the embedded player from the earideas page.
Alas I was unable to determine what I needed to do to listen directly from Mr Fry's own site, but it seems an excessively complicated process was required.
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Long-time technophile and sometime comic, Stephen Fry has been in NZ recently. Perhaps surprisingly, he's just here to check out some of the birds.
Mr Fry talks to Radio NZ here.
(As ever, you may need to cut and paste the resulting URL into your mediaplayer's open URL/network location type thingo should it not open with the grace & dignity of one of David Haywood's stories)
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Here's another link, this time National Radio's Noelle sends her trusty sidekick Hugh Hughes, (who sounds suspiciously like ex-BFM'er Hugh Sundae) out to gatecrash one of the soundchecks and talk to some of the big fish involved.
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The peer to peer filtering thing is already in force in a number of countries and through an expanding bunch of local isp's
Got any eg's to provide links to?
The Copyright disucssion has been raging in recent weeks over at one of Dubber's (growing number of) sites.
Currently what is occupying my mind regarding this subject is the process being proposed to deal with infringement, being the ISP removing connectivity.
The way infringement is dealt with is perhaps best based on the way we deal with traffic offenses...(IMO)
Warnings, fines, license suspension, vehicle impound and eventually court appearances are all ways in which traffic offenses ranging from the minor to the severe are dealt with.
Warnings, fines, tiered abatement of connection speeds, computers impounded and court appearances for severe or recalcitrant infringers are all ways in which Copyright violation (via filesharing) should perhaps be dealt with.At first glance, perhaps you like me, you don’t think that the first-cab-off-the-rank should be suspending access automatically. Severing the link between ISP’s and their customers is in most cases an undesirable step, though I do think that as part of range of measures terminating connectivity is a valid step and/or option.
To suspend connectivity in all cases of alleged infringement, would be similar to requiring license suspension for all alleged traffic infringements. Where an infringement is serious, or a series of infringements cumulatively sufficiently serious, then and only then should the suspension of services occur if we attempt to follow the example of traffic safety.
Some questions and notions to consider.
So should a minor infringement warrant a trip to the courts to resolve, or should it be more like dealing with a traffic offense?
What is the range of remedies that should be made available for infringement of intellectual property rights by filesharing and what standards are of evidence is required?
Who sets the ranges and determines the levels of seriousness of infringement and what is the process to ensure that process is reasonable?
How to manage the task of identifying legitimate filesharing and illegitimate filesharing?
Who are the parties that should be able to identify infringement, what is process for vetting those parties should exist and what process of appeal should exist?
Do we really want to create what seems to be a far from insignificant amount of bureaucracy?
How does that additional bureaucracy get funded?
Do other options (such as just cutting off connectivity when an allegation is made) start looking a bit more attractive/reasonable in light of some of these questions?
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Neil Finn on Radio NZ talking about what he's up to....not that he probably needs me or PAS plugging his stuff, but it's NZ related and I thought I'd better finally share something here that fits within Ourtube's goalposts.
Here's some words related to the Radio NZ interview (which you may or may not need to paste the URL into your media player's "open network/location" type functionality should it not launch gracefully).
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This has been a serious enquiry
a few well aimed tweets (eg @juhasaa.... or @publica...) via twitter might get someone in the know to assist...sorry not a Mac myself. Failing that head down to your local DOC campsite (which as I recall was fairly social)...there's probably a bunch of Mac-flavoured kids who know a thing or 2.
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The BBC's website for this program correctly states:
In this revealing documentary, Stephen Fry investigates the story of one of the most important machines ever invented - the Gutenberg Press.
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http://speechification.com/2008/12/22/i-was-douglas-adams-flat-mate/
There's a bit of interesting non-music stuff to listen to that comes through via the speechification site, most of which seems to come from BBC Radio and is accordingly impacted by an archiving strategy that removes programs after only a week. Thus it's a site to keep a regular eye on.
And this should be a link to program regarding Douglas Adams' flatmates.
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I'd like to make more of the best reader comments (I like the way Josh Marshall does it on TPM) on Public Address. In my big year there wasn't much time to think about enhancements to the site
If this means letting the comment-cream rise and matters of taxonomy, bring it on.
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I'm failry sure the PAS Word of Year made Sideswipe last year too.
I thought it was more notable that some of Tom Beard's comments on PAS were quoted National Radio , though can't recall which program, which topic and given that I listen online, am unsure if it was even a recent program....though obviously not notable enought to you-know, actually make a note of it.
I will have to make a resolution for 2009 about being lucid, though unsure if I need to distinguish between becoming lucid and becoming more lucid...oh well.