Buzz Out Loud Podcast

We discuss a computer algorithm that can determine if photos are pretty or not. I guess hot or not is going out of business. We also look at the causes of the Google error and speculate on how Wolfram Alpha will be used.

EPISODE 975

Networking error caused Google outage
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10241126-93.html

International Energy Agency says CE is gobbling up energy faster than green measures can save it
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE54C4K420090514?sp=true
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/05/power-hungry-gadgets-endanger-energy-efficiency-gains.ars
http://www.pge.com/mybusiness/energysavingsrebates/buyersguide/bce/index.shtml

Wolfram Alpha goes public today
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/05/wolfram-alpha-set-for-launch-first-look-unveiled.ars

Nintendo DSi drives April gaming sales
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/05/nintendo-dsi-drives-april-gaming-sales.ars

eBikes come to Best Buy
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2347082,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121

MLB scores patent to black out streamed games
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10241356-93.html

N.Y. Tax on Games, DVDs, and junk food
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/14/1739258
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/05/14/new-york-bill-would-add-fat-tax-video-games-dvds-junk-food

Exclusive: First Look at the BlackBerry Storm 2!!
http://crackberry.com/exclusive-first-look-blackberry-storm-2

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/05/14/exclusive-blackberry-storm-2-shots/

Computers with opinions on visual aesthetics
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/15/0613204

1000th Episode June 18th!
Send email to buzz@cnet.com with the subject line 1000th Episode Invite, if you are serious about wanting to attend the recording at 10:30 AM Thursday June 18th. We have a limited amount of seats.

VOICEMAIL
Ben
Kids don’t use Twitter

E-MAIL
One note about Shop Safe … don’t use it when you have to show the card to pick up the item you purchased. This mostly applies to show/concert tickets, but it would be a bummer to have a lot of hassle in real life because you were being safe online.

Also, MBNA used to allow limits, almost like an allowance. I used to give myself a limit and an expiration date of a couple months for iTunes purchases. A little hassle, but it kept me on a budget.

Love the show!

Jason in Boston

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Hey BuzzCrew-

As usual I seem to be a day late and a dollar short (’a pound short’ doesn’t sound nearly as nice, need that alliteration) on the podcast. But it was mentioned about having a keyboard on the credit card to make it more secure. Well Europe again is ahead of the US on security. So all cards over here have a chip in them- Most stores make you insert your card to a machine and you have to type in your pin to use it as a credit card/debit card (Know as chip & pin service). And most banks over here (Barclay’s for one) have a small device (looks like a calculator) to allow you to check your account online, where you have to insert your card into the device type in your pin and it gives you a 8 digit number that has to be typed in with a few minutes of trying to log on to view ANY of your account info. Separately if you choose to purchase online from many stores, Visa for example, send you to another page to verify your info by asking for random characters from your specialized password just for online for purchases.

Moving here it was a major change to get use to all of that, but now I quite prefer it. Only frustration is if you are on the go and forget to bring your card reader you can’t access your bank account anywhere but Holes in the Wall (ATMs) or in your own bank.

Cheers from Oxford!
Tom Merritt the Doppelganger

I know you hate links but this is to info about Barclay’s PinSentry [the card reader]: http://www.barclays.co.uk/audiopinsentry/reader.html

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Hello BOL,

BOL had a call out for evidence of TimeWarner Cable leveraging the
analog TV broadcast shutdown to scare people to their service. I did
get a print version here in Southern California, but it’s on their web
site too. I’ve attached a screenshot of the image saying “Don’t Let
Your TV Go Dark”. It’s also on this link:

http://www.timewarnercable.com/SoCal/?divhome=1

if you click the “DTV Transition” right tab. I think the casual
reader could get caught in a misimpression.

Love the Show,
Dean
Huntington Beach, CA

Rafe and Molly take over the show today (because of travels by Tom and Natali) and, not surprisingly, geek out and argue a lot about things like FM radio transmitters. In the actual news, it's cell phone Monday with lots of talk about the spread of Android, the future of smartphone Internet apps, and the stupidity of illegally pirating a movie and reviewing it on Fox News. Oops.

EPISODE 946

MLB’s Web video puts everyone else to shame
http://www.businessinsider.com/baseball-crushing-everyone-at-web-video-2009-4

T-Mobile to use Google software in devices for home
http://news.cnet.com/T-Mobile-to-use-Google-software-in-devices-for-home/2100-1037_3-6249436.html

End of OpenMoko
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/04/228240

iPhone 3.0 to include video editing?
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/04/05/rumor-iphone-os-3-0-to-include-video-editing-tools/

Plus, FM radio transmitter
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-iphone-to-have-fm-radio-transmitter-video-editing-2009-4

FCC pressed on iPhone Skype, tethering apps
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10212102-94.html

AT&T retracts new terms of service, apologizes
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/atandt-retracts-new-terms-of-service-apologizes/

FriendFeed’s redesign makes everything real-time
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10212575-2.html

Net firms start storing user data
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7985339.stm

Fox News columnist fired for reviewing pirated version of "Wolverine"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/business/media/06fox.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/06/1246232&art_pos=4

Nikon DSLR gets articulated screen?
http://www.cameratown.com/news/news.cfm?id=7470

British Steam Car aims for speed record
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10212316-1.html

Voicemail
James from Irvine
innovation through bandwidth caps

Shane from Las Vegas
Chrome on the TV!

E-MAIL
Hey Buzz Crew,

Last week ya’ll had a short piece about Twitter Jurors and their potential effect on our legal system. Two issues that have come up include a system that doesn’t fully understand how people utilize the new technology and people that might be using the technology during inappropriate times (such as during trial deliberations.)

Thought you would enjoy seeing this story about our very own Arkansas Twitter Juror, Johnathan Powell. Lawyers in his case were seeking a mistrial over the $12.5 million judgment based on a handful of tweets made by Powell. The lawyers contended he tweeted during the trial; Powell said it was after. Turns out the time stamps on his tweets were made them look like Powell sent them two hours earlier than he actually did. The judge consequently ruled there were no grounds for a mistrial.

http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2009/04/03/news/040409fzjurortweet.txt

I have no doubt that at some point inappropriate tweeting could lead to major legal snafus in the future. Since this was clearly not the case, Johnathan merely helped to introduce a few of our local legal experts to the world of modern, Internet-based communication.

Love the show!

Brad the Writer

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I have found some information on an iPhone 32GB 3G from at&t’s website. Perhaps there is an update coming this summer.. I kind of hope so, but at the same time I do not because I still have an iPhone 16GB 3G under contract.

http://blackberrybold.tradeups.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dushaun/3416957428/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dushaun/3416123347/

Dushaun / Nashville,TN

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Hey Buzz Crew,
You guys talked about OnLive, the streaming game company, sometime in the last couple weeks. Randy, Scott, and Patrick (the same Patrick Beja whose emails you guys have been reading on the show lately) also discussed it on The Instance last week, and they really got me thinking. From what I’ve seen, game prices on the service haven’t been announced, but I would hope they would be cheaper than store bought games as it sounds like you will have to pay for the subscription. I wonder if this model could be applied to other processor/graphics intensive programs such as Photoshop. It seems that it would almost be more suited to this application as latency would not be such an issue.

What do you think? Would a streaming, hosted subscription model work for these high-end programs?

Chilli (formerly Erik the MBA student)

EPISODE 737

Internet Week in New York
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9956754-36.html

Wikia Search launches the hackable search engine
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9958036-2.html

Time Warner Cable ready to test metered Net use
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9958111-7.html

Starbucks offers new flavor: Free Wi-Fi
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/ 2008-06-02-starbucks-wifi_N.htm

Intel seeks wireless unification
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7425756.stm

Apple’s iPhone loses U.S. market share in Q1
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9957776-37.html

New FYE kiosks load your iPod with MP3s
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080602-new-fye-kiosks-load-your-ipod-with-mp3s.html

Fantasy leagues win against MLB; Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-fantasy-leagues- win-against-mlb-supreme-court-refuses-to-hear-appeal/

Acer aspires to lead low-cost laptop race
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9957706-7.html

95 percent of all returned gadgets still work; Americans don’t read manuals
http://www.engadget.com /2008/06/03/95-percent-of-all-returned-gadgets-still-work-americans-dont-r/

PS3 sucks down 5 times as much energy as a fridge
http://gizmodo.com/5012629/ps3-sucks-up-five-times-as-much-energy-as-a- fridge-ten-times-as-much-as-a-wii

Goosh: a retro Web app with cutting-edge interface
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9958211-7.html

VOICE MAIL

Tony
What’s the idea with the audio dropouts.

Ryan
Idea for DVDs for Netflix

Brendan
Blind people.

E-MAIL

Radiohead and Prince

Sorry, the first one I sent upon rereading, could have been clearer.
Hence, this one might be better to use. (I haven’t had coffee yet today-that’s why.)

First-there is no problem with Prince doing a Radiohead cover, or even recording and selling his version of their song. Sorry, Tom, but Radiohead could not just say “well, don’t cover our song then!” Per the compulsory mechanical license Prince cannot not only perform this song w/out their permission, but can in fact record it and put it out for sale. The only thing Radiohead is entitled to is money for the performance/recording of the song. If the two parties don’t agree to a rate, the mechanical license built into the Copyright Law kicks in to cover the recording. The law sets the rate kind of high to encourage parties to come to agreements about this kind of thing, but it is there as a safety net.

This is a holdover from back in the day where (from what I understand) there was a worry that a performer could have a “monopoly” on a great song. The idea was that performers should be able to compete on the level playing field of using the same songs, and not have to rely on inferior songs (or some such craziness.) So that’s why you can do a cover of anything you want, even if it is slavish in its imitation of the original. You could get the best Radiohead impersonators in the world to perform the song and do the song exactly the same--can’t stop them, just make them pay.

Also, with regards to the performance at the show--ASCAP or BMI has this covered. Prince’s public performance of the song was covered by the license that the venue most certainly had. The venue pays for the performance right licenses who then turn around pay Radiohead.

Lastly, regarding Prince’s wanting to pull the video off of YouTube and Radiohead saying leave it up…I don’t know. As this EFF article lays out… The DMCA doesn’t cover performances, just recordings. So if Prince was recording his version of the song, then he might have a legit takedown claim (based on the copyright claim that would come from his making that recording)--otherwise he doesn’t have an action under the DMCA. His legal action comes under the performance right and anti-bootlegging laws-which don’t trigger the DMCA (I don’t think) and so YouTube wouldn’t have to comply until some later time when a judge actually ruled on the issue.

But they did, because as we all know, everyone is scared silly of the DMCA.

On the plus side, I totally feel comfortable posting the video I took of the Radiohead show in St. Louis…wait did I just type that?

Frank J. M. Lattuca, Esq.

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Radiohead, Prince and GPL

Hello, everyone.

I think I may have solved the issue of Radiohead vs. Prince. It is surprisingly simple. Radiohead should license all their music under the GPL. With the GPL’s inclusive conditions it would force any performance to also be covered under the same terms. This would mean Prince would be forced to release his rendition of any Radiohead songs.

LTS.

Tim.

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North Oaks

Hi, Buzzards, Elam from Minnesota Here!
Just to answer a few of your thoughts on North Oaks. I live in Arden Hills, which is just about 5 miles from North Oaks, and I have several friends and family living there. It is not technically a gated community, in that there are no gates, however for all intents and purposes, the city is completely “private” There is no public space inside the city. All homeowners own property extended half way into the road, concurrently the owner on the other side owns that half of the road. It is kind of a creepy Stepford Wife community, though, and they have awkward community projects like “Operation ClearView” the project to get everyone to trim the trees over their roads, and Operation W.A.V.E.(Walker And Vehicle Encounters) an endeavor to protect walkers from moving vehicles. They also have a section of their site devoted to coexisting with coyote in North Oaks!
There is also this strange rumor that the homeowners of North Oaks don’t actually OWN the land their house is on, but lease it from the city for a period of 99 years at a time…I should find out about it!
There are many strange things about this city, but if we are being honest, it is a really nice town! It is like a nature preserve with homes weaved in and out.
Just thought I’d give some info, I hope you were able to open all the links!
Elam Noor

PS: OMG they have a North Oaks Singles Network!!

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Indiana Jones watermarking

Hey, Buzz Crew,

It’s Sperling, the product manager from DTS Digital Cinema. On episode
735 you mentioned that some of the theatres showing “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” were warning customers about sound dropouts during the film which were meant to prevent piracy. I can shed a little light on the issue, especially since DTS is one of the leading technologies enabling movie theaters to play 5.1 surround sound.

Paramount Pictures and several other studios strike their prints at a specific lab, which should probably remain nameless if I want to protect my job. This lab uses a version of “audio watermarking” that causes the dropouts as a form of identification for each print. That’s right, every single print that’s made has its own unique series of dropouts.
The idea here is that when authorities or a studio obtain a pirated copy of a film that was made at a theater with a camcorder, they can bring it back to the lab and determine the origin of the pirating. Law enforcement can then visit the theater in question and wait for the pirates to show up with their video cameras. (Somehow I doubt it’s ever that easy, though).

None of the companies that provide surround-sound technology, nor the theatres that pay for it, are big fans of this particular type of watermarking because it makes it appear as if the audio equipment is broken or the print is damaged. Filmmakers particularly despise it, since it ruins their pristine sound mix. Another well-known lab used by studios employs a form of audio watermarking which does not cause sound dropouts, but instead places identifying sounds that can supposedly only be picked up by special equipment.

You should also know this is not the only form of watermarking being placed on motion pictures today, whether projected digitally or on celluloid. Visual watermarking is also done. If you pay close attention to a film that is being projected traditionally you will spot a watermarking pattern of random red dots that appear for less than a second, usually once per reel. This pattern can be decoded on a pirated copy of the film by the lab which originally struck the print and once again, the location of the theater in which the pirating is taking place can be identified. Law enforcement officials can then race to said location and spend hours watching all the latest releases while they wait for the perpetrators to turn up again with their camcorders.
(OK, fine, I’m sure that’s not what actually happens, but even so. .
.).

While I have yet to see any research that proves these watermarking methods deter or prevent piracy, the content owners (i.e. studios) must have some evidence that they work because despite the protests of many in the industry, they have fallen in love with them.

Insert witty line about the show being great and keeping up the good work.

Regards,
Sperling

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Infrared copy protection idea

Hey, Buzz Crew,

Michael’s idea for flooding movie screens with infrared light in episode
736 was very interesting to me, as I’ve spent the past several weeks at my summer internship designing a research system which uses infrared light extensively. However, while I think the idea is clever and I’m in favor of anything that will stop pirates without bothering viewers, I don’t think this method would be very effective. Pirates could easily prevent their camera from detecting light outside the visible spectrum (like infrared) with a fairly inexpensive camera filter (or just use a camera that has such a filter built in). Also, it would be pretty expensive for theaters to install IR sources to cover all their screens.

As for people complaining that they can see the IR light, Tom, I don’t think that would be an issue, since it is widely accepted that people can’t physically see IR light. The typical human eye can see light in a range from 380 to 750 nanometers, and although some estimates place that number a little closer to 800 nanometers, infrared light would still be outside the human viewing boundary.

Love the show!

James from Texas (But California for the summer)

EPISODE 670

Google Sites: What’s all the fuss?
http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9881642-80.html

Under the bonnet of Android
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/02/under_the_bonnet_of_android_1.html

Apple: All signs point to a more business friendly iPhone
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8104

Sprint raises stakes in the $99.99 unlimited battle http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9881662-7.html

EU may begin treating ‘Net censorship as a trade barrier http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/ 20080227-eu-may-begin-treating-net-censorship-as-a-trade-barrier.html

Former FBI Agent Calls for a Second Internet
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/27/2310247

MLB Increases Its Chokehold: Starts Its Own Online Usage Restrictions; Following NFL's Lead http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/ 419-mlb-increases-its-chokehold-starts-its-own-online-usage-restrictions-fo/

I know where you lived last summer: a “hair-brained” method for tracking people http://dvice.com/archives/2008/02/i_know_where_yo.php

Plan to teach baby robot to talk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7268965.stm

VOICE MAIL

Anonymous
BOL camping trip.

Agent Provacateur Portland
What about the iPhone Firmware update?

Meggy Indiana
Looks back at her life.

E-MAIL

Not about technology at all

Tom, Molly and Jason,

Despite not being about technology at all I have a funny anecdote about listening to your show in the office.

I frequently listen to your show at work, since I have a real office with walls it usually doesn’t cause any problems or disturb anyone when I listen to stuff on real speakers.

In the last six months we hired two new people who sit right outside my office. Turns out during this time they have discussed with each other how surprised they are that I listen to the Howard Stern show so much. But since they are newer they didn’t feel comfortable saying anything until recently.

Thing is, I don’t listen to Howard Stern.

We tested, I played a bit from each of the shows I listen to and they confirmed (from just outside my office door) that when I am listening to Buzz they thought it was Howard. They were doubly sure it was your show when I did the tests because most of the other stuff I listen to that is all talk is from the BBC and, I quote “there aren’t any female voices in those and we thought we heard Howard and Robin…and sometimes there is sort of a yelling voice”. Sorry, Molly, I think they meant your voice.

So, moral of the story, I will listen to podcasts on my iPod or just stick with music.

Cheers,
Nancy

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Property tax on IP

A few things about property tax on intellectual properties.

1) Property tax is levied by the local governments, not the federal governments. The highly abridged version as to why only local governments levy property tax in the 20th/21st century is that the tax is used to fund local services such as fire, police, public education, the “justification” being local people consumes the local services (don’t get me started on feeding the homeless with my property taxes).
Prior to that, it was a wealth tax used to fund wars efforts (because we didn’t have a national income tax until 1916). A wealth tax is basically a tax based on who can afford to pay, and in the old days, land=wealth.

2) Property tax can be levied only on tangible items (real estate and
chattel) because of the concepts of locality (jurisdiction) and determinability (an objective formula). Again, the history is that cows, pigs and ranches are unique (no two pigs are identical), and therefore, easy for the taxing authorities to determine where something is, who has it, how many items there are, and therefore, who can tax it and how much.

Intangible properties, by definition, a) has no locality so it cannot be determined who has jurisdiction to tax it, and b) have no form, and are not unique (one copy of software is identical to another), so there is no determinable formula to value and compute the tax.

Taken to the extreme, when it is “located” in the minds of people, e.g., the formula for Coke(r) are inside Coke’s executives’ heads, how do you know who really “has” it, where is it, and do you tax all the copies–how many copies are there? And when they fly around the country, or drive from one county to another, does each jurisdiction get
a piece of the action? And then how much is it worth–is Coke’s
formula more valuable than say a JaMoTo’s cocktail concoction.

The property tax concept cannot really work on IP. Not that the taxing authorities won’t try to invent something–please don’t give them more ideas.

Dickson Leung

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Problem with taxed copyright

Hey TMJ

In my (small) life outside of technology, I’m also a magician, and from there I can see some interesting problems with taxing copyright. The problem comes in the article’s assumption that over time the demand for the intellectual property decreases while some value remains…

Many magicians seeking to make money on effects they’ve created, aside from performance, generally try to sell those tricks to other magicians. Often, in order to increase the price or to retain enough exclusivity so that the creator can continue to regularly perform the trick (or, simply because it ends up being loved by the magic community much more than expected), a limited number of the explanations are sold, or they are sold for a limited amount of time.

Here’s the problem with taxes: while the method behind the trick cannot be copyrighted/protected per se (it is, after all, only an idea), the media on which the explanation is conveyed can be copyrighted. If a magician wanted to release his effect in that limited way, to balance profits against exclusivity, he or she would then be forced to maintain the taxes on that copyright, eating away at whatever profits he/she sought to gain in the first place. In this case, the material is specifically being kept in copyright and sold limitedly in order to increase the demand, negating an essential part of the premise of the article you cited during BOL. While magic is first example I thought of, I’m pretty sure that such a tactic would apply to other businesses.

Perhaps the best way to do this would be to tax copyright holders on a graduated basis. Those only holding a few copyrights would be exempt from taxes at all, those with an abundance of copyrights (which would include the opposite magicians who try to sell as many tricks as possible) would be taxed based on the number of copyrights they have.

Oh, and a totally random thought… I may be crazy but your show length may not be so indeterminate. Anyone else notice BOL increasing in length while Molly was on vacation (getting close to 50 minutes an episode) and then returning to normal with her return? Perhaps semi-indeterminate? Just a thought.

Bennett

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A little more on IE8 (developer views)

Hey Buzz Crew,

Just thought I’d add a little more perspective to the IE 8 conversation. Back in January when this whole thing came out Daringfireball.net did a nice commentary on a lot of developers statements.

A little comment from John Resig (http://ejohn.org/blog/meta-madness/) (via DaringFireball) who works from Mozilla. He says two important things.

“What seems to have slipped past the Microsoft Task Force of WaSP (or maybe it didn’t and they’re just playing coy) is that by implementing this specific feature in any other browser immediately either: A) Reduces its market size of viable web pages that will upgrade to new versions of the browser or B) Forces new versions of the browser to bloat, including backwards support for old-style rendering.

The fundamental issue is that Safari, Firefox, and Opera will all be harmed by attempting to implement this. Anne, from Opera, completely agrees.”

so apparently while this might be good for IE its bad for other browsers.

Here are some more links:

A list of responses and reactions (mainly developers): http://www.digital-web.com/news/2008/01/IE8_Version_Targeting_causes_quite_a_stir

Tim

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Me, me, I thought of it first

Well, sort of. I wrote an extensive article about the intellectual property metaphor last year, can’t believe you missed it. Well, it was in a Czech literary magazine (http://literarky.cz/?p=clanek&id=4767), but still! What I wrote about was that metaphors are commonly exploited up to a point by certain interests but that they can be picked up by others and brought to conclusions that will challenge the whole metaphor. For instance, with intellectual property the advocates of ’song recording’ as property never want to hear of consequences that owning property means. E.g. they never acknowledge that their property may intrude on mine such as hearing a song I don’t like while walking down the street. Or that they rely on the common good to promote their materials, such as public airwaves or just conversations people have about a song or a book. They particularly can’t expect laws to protect their property at the expense of other rights. I compared it to the ‘right of way’ laws in England. I didn’t think about ‘property taxes’, partly because in Czech there is a different word for ‘property’ used in the phrases ‘intellectual property’ (vlastnictvi) and ‘property tax’ (nemovitost).

More nitty gritty on metaphors and frames in public discourse on my blog: http://hermeneuticheretic.net.

Dominik

PS: I'm not sure I love the show (we Czechs are much more judicious in our use of the word), but I’m pretty close to being in love with Molly!

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Le Monde social networks map

Hi,

I heard your comments on the show about the Le Monde social network map, and would like to point out a richer version of the social networking map presented by Le Monde at this site http://csserver.ucd.ie/~mfarrugia/

Apart from showing the data on a map there are two other views of the same data. There’s an academic twist to these visualizations and the purpose of this is to try and compare the popularity of simple displays like the map, with more data rich visualizations that don’t look so pretty. If you can help popularize this site to have more people try out the different displays I’d be very grateful.

The data is presented using the many eyes site (http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/) which allows you to upload any data and visualize it. The site itself is worthy of mention in the context of collaborative visualizations at internet scale. The data used for the visualizations is also freely available and anybody can create his/her own visualization and analysis of the data.

Cheers,

Mike
UCD Ireland