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Alice, child with dreaming eyes, Noting things that come to pass Turvey-wise in Wonderland Backwards through a Looking-Glass. ♠ Saki, The Westminster Alice ♣ |  |
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01 Libra 2k8 23:04 [ 080910 ] nocturne, King Pear – As above; playing SPORE. 25 Virgo 2k8 01:19 [ 080910 ] Ian Timothy – dude..where have you been? 23 Virgo 2k8 19:49 [ 080702 ] hollyjean – :) hey ya.. just popping by in the morning 20 Virgo 2k8 17:08 [ 080831 ] Ian Timothy – It is really simple... Besides you (who is one of the last bastions of truth and a shining paragon of virtue), most of us are hypocrites with daily intellectual and moral inconsistencies. 09 Virgo 2k8 19:45 …more… 
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I note with interest every once in the while that blogs bleed into the mainstream media. This has happened with an increased frequency in the past week or so. However, as Grievous, the Grapevine Spider, notes, the journos don’t seem to make an effort. They misquote, “edit for language” (ending in a misquote of written text), and even – get this – cutpaste entire fucking posts. The audacity of the last is staggering. We all know Straits Times Online is a subscription based service. Ergo, SPH knows that whatever is printed in their paper has a value in financial terms. SPH owns, or partly owns, The Straits Times and Today, the offending papers in these cases. Somehow, I don’t think the Fair Use Doctrine covers the lifting of an entire post by a commercial entity in pursuit of a commercial endeavour. If someone reads something on my site, they sit through my ads, if they read content that I produce elsewhere, they don’t. Simply put, rednano isn’t the only fucked up thing about Singapore Press Holdings. Their papers are pirates (not the cool avast-ye-mateys kind; the other kind – like those off Somalia). Ironically, if they had asked, I’m sure most bloggers would simply say, go ahead, reprint the whole thing. On the plus side, by their own standards, it’s now legal to cutpaste entire ST articles, which lots of people are doing anyways. But, now, you know, legally.
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“If we all jump up and down at the same time,” she said, “I’ll bet we can move the world.”
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Things that fall contrariwise, Difficult to understand Darkly through a Looking-Glass Turvey-wise in Wonderland ♠ Saki, The Westminster Alice ♣ | |
