Wow, what an exciting day! Mark at Ditchwalk posted a great entry furthering the discussion we’ve been having about piracy and copyright. With his support, I feel like the discussion is going somewhere. In this post I want to directly respond to what he wrote, so please read his post first. Once you’ve done that, let’s talk:
Both of Mark’s scenarios that don’t involve the taking of something from someone else, but still involve physical piracy (free newspaper and concert), stem from the same given: content creators have a right to …

This post directly follows this post and the comments originating there. Anyway:
Don’t fool yourself: social consciousness has become commoditized, as evidenced by culturally aware works by Cory Doctorow like The Makers and, to a small extent, Little Brother. I talked about that a little in my post on STUFF. More so, proof that it has been directly commoditized is directly exemplified by CauseWorld. This is the only program I’m aware of that does this, but I’m sure it’s not the only one that exists.
If you’re not familiar with it – …

I don’t know why I’m writing about the iPad. I really don’t. I don’t really wanna write or think about the iPad anymore after all the coverage in the last few days, but this post just sort of started itself, and now I’m writing it, and so here it is.
So, this Apple iPad thing was announced and demonstrated, right? Man, how exciting. How wonderful and interesting and everything. It’s like, man, you know? Or something.
And the thing is, we all wanted to be excited about this, Apple. We wanted to …