Good evening, welcome to Wednesday Late Nite Radio. Tonight’s song selection, from Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers’ eponymous 1975 album, concerns a phone call made on the vexing matter of Hippy Johnny. Here then, without further ado, for your musical pleasure, Jonathan Richman sings I’m Straight.
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Blow ’em up, I say!
So, Vitruvius you might tend to recommend the gophinator.
I dunno, Glasnost, How big is your infestation?
“Perhaps the age of content theft is coming to an end.”
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“Newspaper Publishers Holding Conclave Today – Paid Online Content? (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
Here’s a story the newspaper industry’s upper echelon apparently kept from its anxious newsrooms: A discreet Thursday meeting in Chicago about their future.
“Models to Monetize Content” is the subject of a gathering at a hotel which is actually located in drab and sterile suburban Rosemont, Illinois; slabs of concrete, exhibition halls and mostly chain restaurants, whose prime reason for being is O’Hare International Airport. It’s perfect for quickie, in-and-out conclaves.
There’s no mention on its website but the Newspaper Association of America, the industry trade group, has assembled top executives of the New York Times, Gannett, E. W. Scripps, Advance Publications, McClatchy, Hearst Newspapers, MediaNews Group, the Associated Press, Philadelphia Media Holdings, Lee Enterprises and Freedom Communication Inc., among more than two dozen in all. A longtime industry chum, consultant Barbara Cohen, “will facilitate the meeting.”
One hopes it displays the same sense of purpose as, say, troubled world leaders did at Yalta in 1945 or, in a rather less respectable sector of the economy, beleaguered mob bosses did at a legendary Apalachin, New York, confab in 1957.
Cross one’s fingers on their behalf, even if there’s worry that some don’t really possess the nerve and vision to exit a mess for which they hold significant responsibility.
There was a dinner Wednesday and, according to the agenda, Thursday begins with a quick declaration of goals at 8 a.m., then an 8:10 a.m. session labeled, “Fair Syndication Consortium/Attributor.” It’s described as a “presentation on technology/service to track content on the Web and to extract payments from third-parties and ad networks that have appropriated newspaper content.”
Presumably, Google, Yahoo! and any one of thousands of websites could, and should, get mentioned with scant reverence. Perhaps the age of content theft is coming to an end.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260199/posts
Vitruvius, my
“infestation” is not nearly as threatening as
“the Americans’ pest”
Yeah, yeah, all Obama, all the time. Life goes on, you know?
The issue of the prayer group being against “county regulations” sounds like standard municipal government stuff dealing with the use of land. I suspect the offending bylaws have been in place for quite a while and that there is no way they can be blamed on President Obama in particular or the federal government in general.
However, zoning bylaws, “floorspace indexing” and other bylaws like the one here are still violations of property rights. Presumably the idea in this case is to ensure enough parking on the street or to keep down any possible disturbance caused by large groups (although I bet they could throw a barbecue for 15-20 people and no one would say boo). The problem is that under the rule of law, government is not supposed to step in until a person actually does something wrong. But all this “administrative law” regulatory stuff presumes you’re an idiot or a criminal first. Americans’ property rights are not in any better shape than Canadians’, and the infamous US Supreme Court decision of a few years ago (Kelo, I think it was called) was just another bunch of nails in the coffin.