I grew up in a pretty damn good period for video games, catching the dawn of the golden home video game age – the return of the Atari under the 2600 Jr moniker and the dawn of the 8-bit era. I stayed with consoles until I caught the dawn of the FPS on the PC. [...]
02.7.12 | Intellectual Property, media, technology | bradley
What a day. Here’s a rundown. Apple Announced iBooks2 and iBooks Author The news came, as expected from early rumors, Apple was going to revamp their eBooks to support more interactive elements. The software is nice, feeling a lot like a robust Keynote that outputs Epub files. I haven’t had time to dig through the [...]
01.20.12 | life, media, technology | bradley
Saw this on Techdirt the other day and figured I go ahead and reproduce it here since the creator is actively encouraging it. The idea is fairly simple, the patent has gotten so far away from its roots that it is now doing the exact opposite of what it was originally intended for – hindering [...]
01.13.12 | Intellectual Property, media, technology | bradley
I’m a fairly ardent media collector. My living room is walled by shelves which, from left to right, hold books, DVDs and CDs, each of which number in the hundreds of units. However, as bandwidth has dropped to near-zero cost*, I have taken to streaming music. At first, streaming was just a means to listen [...]
01.11.12 | media, technology | bradley
Or How, After More Than a Decade, The Times Still Doesn’t Get The Internet After years of talk, the New York Times finally released details regarding their new pay wall yesterday. Despite receiving mixed reviews, I am failing to see how anyone could see the new Times plan as anything but a bad idea. First, [...]
03.18.11 | media, technology | bradley
Earlier today I outed a Twitter spammer but publishing his phone number. Said spammer took offense to this and reported my account as violating the Twitter ToS. At approximately 5:32, Twitter responded to his request and suspended my account. I have lodged an appeal to have my account. According to the Twitter ToS: Privacy: You [...]
01.3.11 | technology | bradley
Here’s a quick crash course in “How to be just a bit nerdier” or “Why the government can’t put Wikileaks back in the box.” I used to frequently use the phrase “DNS is magic” when working tech support. It’s not. It’s really like visiting a library. What is DNS? DNS stands for Domain Name System [...]
12.6.10 | life, media, technology | bradley
Dear Mr. Cuccinelli, Let me say, I applaud your desire to curtail the horrid child prostitution industry. I think your intentions are at least modestly noble. However, I am dismayed by you current tactics, which seems to overlook thousands of years of military understanding and the full history of the internet. You see, your recent [...]
08.26.10 | media, technology | bradley
For a writer, I tend to do quite a few image searches. Not nearly as many now as I used to do when I was actively editing Fiction Matters, but I still run several a day. The iTunes install on my work computer couldn’t find the album art for the Delgado’s Pelotron this morning, so [...]
07.20.10 | technology | bradley
I hear band names, and some of them don’t even know they’re bands. Prefork, The Govs, Podium California – those are just the three most recent. The names just jump out from unsuspecting places and in some quantum sense, a band forms. And I’m not the only one. And the problem with fake band names [...]
02.11.10 | media, technology | bradley
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