The New York Times is hotlinking images on its website. That makes the Times a copyjacker. Copyjacking is a violation of netiquette. Is it a violation of the law? You decide.
Here’s the proof.
Shameful.
See also:… [read full post]
I am an engineer (BSEE from MIT). I have worked with engineers. Engineers share a common feature/bug: they like to be right. And they will go to great lengths to prove that they are right.
I am also a lawyer. I have worked with lawyers. Lawyers, like… [read full post]
In George Orwell’s classic book Nineteen Eighty-Four
“Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.”… [read full post]
Freakonomics Needs Money!
Help save Freakonomics. They need money and can no longer afford to purchase stock photography. At least this is what I conclude based on today’s post, which appears to have borrowed a copyrighted image from another site without attribution or purchase. (I called the vendor… [read full post]
Conventional blogger wisdom says that adding photos to your blog posts is one way to increase readership.
But where can you find photos, graphics, or other images for your website?
Option 1. You could just search Google Images and copy any found image… [read full post]
Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook asked me to list my favorite movies. It only took me 41 years, but here’s my list.
I started with Wikipedia’s list of films by year. I added links to Amazon (because this list is primarily for me, and I’d like to buy all of… [read full post]
Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook asked me to list my favorite movies. It only took me 41 years, but here’s my list.
I started with Wikipedia’s list of films by year. I added links to Amazon (because this list is primarily for me, and I’d like to buy all of… [read full post]
Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook asked me to list my favorite movies. It only took me 41 years, but here’s my list.
I started with Wikipedia’s list of films by year. I added links to Amazon (because this list is primarily for me, and I’d like to buy all of… [read full post]
Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook asked me to list my favorite movies. It only took me 41 years, but here’s my list.
I started with Wikipedia’s list of films by year. I added links to Amazon (because this list is primarily for me, and I’d like to buy all of… [read full post]
My blog is a work in progress. I have long-term and short-term projects. I recently completed a long overdue project. I wrote to United Media, the publisher of the Dilbert comic strip, to request permission to reprint a Dilbert comic that I blogged about a couple of years ago. (See Musician Loses
