Author: Glenn Hauman

it’s all one thing: making money from art

“This book is Dedicated to Mobil.”

Scott Rosenberg’s Links & Comment

Brewster Kahle at Web 2.0
“I’m probably best known for being part of Web 1.0.”

“I’m going to argue that Universal Access to All Knowledge is possible.”

Altavista said, let’s just index the whole web. Jeff Bezos said, let’s just sell all books. People who focus on doing it all are being pretty successful in the business world.

Texts: how much is there? Library of Congress = 26 terabytes. $60,000 of storage. Price of a house — or, around here, a garage. Costs about $10 a book to scan a book. $260 million. [I’ll need to doublecheck these numbers!]

Question of copyright. What do we do with the out of print but still under copyright stuff? the orphans? — most of the 20th century. 8 million books. We’re not allowed to digitize them. We filed a lawsuit. Kahle v. Ashcroft — to try to allow us to bring out of print but under copyright works onto the night. To do this in the not-for-profit sphere.

It turns out you can print and bind a book for a buck. That’s cheap — cheaper than a library, Harvard says it costs them $2 to lend a book. Bookmobile project. The idea of going book to book — book, scan it, put it on the net, download it, print it, bind it: book to book.

Let’s go to audio. 2-3 million disks that have ever been sold. It’s a very litigated area. Lots of people aren’t served terribly well by the publishing industry. Bands that want to circulate their concert recordings: Grateful Dead. Community-based thing. Folk music, “fringe” areas. Non profit record labels. To people publishing under Creative Commons licenses, we are offering unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, forever, for free. If you want to give stuff away, there’s institutional support to help make it happen.

Moving images. Isn’t that too big to do the whole darn thing? Most people think of Hollywood films. 100-200,000 theatrical releases. 1/2 estimated to be Indian. It’s a few more bookshelves, but it’s doable. Copyright issues. Educational films. Mostly being used by others to build new films. Genre of Lego movies.

Television. Recording 20 channels of TV 24 hours a day. Around a petabyte of this stuff. Making it available is still problematic.

Software: copyright office allowing them to archive it.

The Web archive. [He’s showing the original Yahoo home page.’] Kind of looks like Google today. Pets.com.

Preservation and access: the idea is to not have one copy on top of the san andreas faultline. Copies in Alexandria and Amsterdam.

Will we do it? Lots of business opportunities, already spun off four little companies. This is interesting, it requires govt, non-profits and for-profits to work together. Make something we’re really proud of to pass on to the next generation.

Mark A. R. K. touches on something I’ve been asking for a very long time with regards to the Bush election: If Bush is going to win, where is he going to pick up the extra votes?

He asks: Query: Does anyone know of a media outlet or commentator that supported Gore in 2000 and is supporting Bush today? (Not Hitchens: he was for Nader.)

I’ll go one further and even accept your own word: did anybody reading this vote for Gore in 2000, but now is planning to vote for Bush?

Bush didn’t win the popular vote last time around. Where is he going to get the votes this time around?

(Cynical echo: the same place he’s going to get more soldiers to join the armed forces… paid for out of the same budget surplus.)

Rest easy, big guy.

GWB thinks we have Internets? Plural?

now has a blog of his own at Ramblings from the Gryphon Rose. Stop by and tell him I said hi.

news from me – ARCHIVES

Cheney has said a couple of times that he doesn’t have enough time to respond to things Edwards is saying. Wonder what would happen if Edwards turned to him and said, “Well then, how about if we schedule another debate next week with no silly time limits?”

He’s perfectly right. It would have been an immediate challenge that would have sealed the deal… “You’re not chicken, Dick, are you?”

Wonder if Mark will mention this on his blog or not– somehow I doubt it, I didn’t say anything about how good his book Superheroes In My Pants is, which is to say quite good. Of course, what I want is the collection of the “Show Business” columns from Crossfire…

I don’t know what web site he had in mind, but I doubt it was factcheck.com.

BetterWhois.com: Results for factcheck.com

Registrant:
Name Administration Inc. (BVI)
Box 10518 A.P.O.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY

Domain name: FACTCHECK.COM

Administrative Contact:
Domain, Administrator admin@nameadmininc.com
Box 10518 A.P.O.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY
+1.345.946.6879
Technical Contact:
Domain, Administrator admin@nameadmininc.com
Box 10518 A.P.O.
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands B.W.I.
KY
+1.345.946.6879

And it seems to be held by a domain squatter.

Gotta wonder how many other facts he’s gotten wrong…

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Now can we put this trope about Kerry being soft on defense and having no honor to rest?

Homicide: Life on the Street Crossovers & A Multiverse Explored

Who is Tommy Westphall? Given that the connections in this multiverse cover 164 (yes, one-hundred and sixty-four!) series across six decades – from 1951 to the present – the question of how to name this grid became increasingly difficult.

Tommy Westphall was an austistic child on ST ELSEWHERE who, it was revealed in the closing moments of the final episode of that series, had dreamt the entire run of the show. So if ST ELSEWHERE is part of his mind, so are the 163 other series to which it is connected.