Green Energy
- Sloppy Legislation = Tyranny
Please watch this short video before reading my commentary: For a moment, let's think about all this in different terms. Because I'm most comfortable discussing this matter in educational terms, allow me to do so for just a moment. First, note...
- Wise Words From Jfk
Hat tip to Social Sense: Note these words:“And so it is to the printing press, the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news, that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help, man will be...
- An Open Challenge To A Malaysian Terrorist
The resistance to Malaysian jihadists and apologists for Islamic terror like the Islamic blogger who calls himself 'Mahaguru58' is building. Interestingly enough, this 'Mahaguru' character is the one who leads a group of Muslim bloggers...
- Accept Islam Or Die Like Infidel Pigs
Robert Spencer pointed out that Ahmadinejad's letter was a call to Islam, and, as such, is, according to scripture, a prelude to war: In a Hadith, Muhammad tells his followers to call people to Islam before waging war against them: "Fight in the...
- Scanning The Web About Iran, And The 'new' Era..
There's something very interesting going on this tiny world of ours in blogonia, blogosphere, whatever. However, I am certain it perfectly reflects the thinking of the larger, outer reality. The theoreticians and anlyzers here have moved to the next...
Green Energy
AP Makes Us An Offer We Can't Refuse
Get a load of this:
The AP’s disharmony with bloggers may have only just begun, as the
alternative it’s now offering to being served with takedown notices involves
paying an up-front sum for excerpting online articles — as few as five
words.
A meeting between the Associated Press’ Vice President for
Strategic Planning Jim Kennedy and Robert Cox, who heads the Media Bloggers
Association, is now planned for Thursday of this week. The subject at hand is
the AP’s attempt to find a new way of sharing AP content, which now involves a
fee per excerpt based on its word length.
On the heels of a blogosphere revolt last week because of its harsh
actions against social news site The Drudge Retort, the AP regrouped over the
weekend to take a less litigative — but more bureaucratic — approach to dealing
with those who wish to quote its material.
Where the group had previously invoked the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act and sent cease-and-desist orders to at least one blogger, seeking
the removal of excerpted content (in some cases as few as 17 words in length),
now the press service has attached an “Excerpt for Web Use” charge for passages
as short as five words in length.
The pricing scale for excerpting AP content begins at $12.50 for
5-25 words and goes as high as $100 for 251 words and up. Nonprofit
organizations and educational institutions enjoy a discounted rate.
As LGF commenter Mich-again says,
No problem. I'll just take their story and correct the grammar errors, and delete all the biased opinions posing as facts. They won't even recognize the story.
- Sloppy Legislation = Tyranny
Please watch this short video before reading my commentary: For a moment, let's think about all this in different terms. Because I'm most comfortable discussing this matter in educational terms, allow me to do so for just a moment. First, note...
- Wise Words From Jfk
Hat tip to Social Sense: Note these words:“And so it is to the printing press, the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news, that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help, man will be...
- An Open Challenge To A Malaysian Terrorist
The resistance to Malaysian jihadists and apologists for Islamic terror like the Islamic blogger who calls himself 'Mahaguru58' is building. Interestingly enough, this 'Mahaguru' character is the one who leads a group of Muslim bloggers...
- Accept Islam Or Die Like Infidel Pigs
Robert Spencer pointed out that Ahmadinejad's letter was a call to Islam, and, as such, is, according to scripture, a prelude to war: In a Hadith, Muhammad tells his followers to call people to Islam before waging war against them: "Fight in the...
- Scanning The Web About Iran, And The 'new' Era..
There's something very interesting going on this tiny world of ours in blogonia, blogosphere, whatever. However, I am certain it perfectly reflects the thinking of the larger, outer reality. The theoreticians and anlyzers here have moved to the next...