I spent some time recently playing around on the post-acquisition YouTube. It seems that Google’s legal department has really cracked down on copyrighted material; about one in six links I surfed from within YouTube were broken (removed due to terms of service violations or such). But in surfing the remaining stuff — most all amateur [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2007’
HOWTO: Subversion Export for Legal Discovery
The more interesting things you do in life, the more likely it is that some jackass will sue you. If this happens, you will probably be faced with giving one or more sets of attorneys access to your electronic documents. If, like all right-thinking citizens, you store your documents in a Subversion repository organized hierarchically [...]
Jihad Against Websites That Artificially Maximize Page Views
I was checking out the new Judy’s Book in an attempt to find a good local accountant. Well, it’s terrible. But of all the ways (incomplete, too many ads, too cluttered, unhelpful categorization, navigational and search deficiencies) in which it’s terrible, there is one which stands out: Judy’s Book sells out its users by trading [...]