Dylan Tweney

Kevin Kelly takes 10 pages to wind up to this original idea: “Copyrights must be counterbalanced by copyduties. In exchange for public protection of a work’s copies (what we call copyright), a creator has an obligation to allow that work to be searched.” Scan This Book! – New York Times

Funny, Web 2.0 looks a lot like Web 1.0 (which looked a lot like the old Main Stream Media): Read/WriteWeb: 53,651 male, youngish, rich, powerful and geeky readers

Seth Godin: “The next time you get all formal or obfuscatory or snarky, ask a simple question, ‘If I knew this person and we were eating together in a restaurant, would I speak to them the same way?‘

I’m spending way too much time listening to MP3s from New York radio station WFMU’s Beware of the Blog. Where else could you find enough versions of Stairway to Heaven and Tico Tico to fill up a Shuffle? Where else could you hear Stephin Merritt playing version after version of Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, in

Escape from Chinatown, uploaded by fueledbycoffee. There’s a certain mad intensity to riding a bicycle in downtown SF–a bit like driving a car in Manhattan. You have to be hyper-alert, and a bit aggressive, in order to stay safe and get to where you want to go. It’s like a high-stakes video game. Al

How to get better at doing most things: Practice. Actually, “deliberate practice,” which means “setting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.”

I’ve started a new job as editorial director of PCMagCast, Ziff-Davis’s online events channel for consumers and small to medium-sized businesses. I’ll be producing, hosting, and appearing in online events and web seminars on a variety of technical topics. PCMagCast is brand new, so don’t be put off

Clive Thompson: “… interactive narrative is an oxymoron. It’s like talking about “dry water”. The audience’s lack of control over a story is the crucial part of what makes narrative narrative.” Why interactive poetry beats interactive fiction.

Top-secret, 400-page report by the UK Ministry of Defense confirms: UFOs are not really alien visitors

Congratulations to my friends at RLG. (For you non-library folks: This news is a bit like Yahoo merging with Google, except for libraries). RLG to combine with OCLC

Link: 101 Fabulous Freebies Link broken? Try the Wayback Machine.

Holy cow, I have an entry in the Internet Movie Database: IMDB: Dylan Tweney