links for 2010-02-06

FROM MY SEARCH ON WHAT THE BLOG USED TO BE: "Here's what blogs are not: (1) the super-personalized news filters that social critics fretted would splinter the nation into a million tiny interest groups, or (2) the Drudge Report. Blogs don't limit your news intake, break stories or promulgate rumor, at least not intentionally. They have an only seemingly more innocent agenda. Blogs express opinion. They're one-person pundit shows, replete with the stridency and looniness usually edited off TV.

How does the Copyright Office remedy DRM, DMCA & copyright? Not very well...

Accused of plagiarizing tweets for using headline and bitly shortening. Ridiculous!

GAWKER BREAKS IT DOWN: Fox News has generously placed the full, unedited conversation between Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart online, so we can see precisely how unfairly and deviously Fox edited the interview in order to weaken Stewart's case: A lot!