The copyright office issued new exemptions on the DMCAs anti-circumvention rule today. The new rules say that it is not a violation of the DMCA to rip lawfully obtained DVDs and remix clips from those DVDs for noncommercial purposes, jailbreak your phone, unlock your phone to use with other wireless carriers, crack lawfully obtained video games [...]

The word “lifestreaming” feels overly broad and I do a mental eye roll every time I say it, but I’ll use it for now for the sake of expediency. So I’ve been using Flickr and Delicious forever and Twitter for a while and Google Reader and all of these services are great and let me [...]

Wife: What the what are you looking at? Me: Random blogs. Getting inspiration for a redesign for my site. Wife: Why is that picture on your screen? Me: Oh, that. Just got lucky, I guess.