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Jeff Merkey --- STATEMENT TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS --- "According to Merkey, in 2006, Wales agreed that in exchange for a substantial donation and other financial support of the Wikimedia Foundation projects, Wales would use his influence to make Merkey's...
Posted in Infothought on March 12, 2008 11:59 PM
I'd been saving some of the following material for a big retrospective article, but a discussion today against corporate blogging is a good occasion for writing this post, and makes it not completely self-indulgent. For example: Seven rules for corporate...
Posted in Infothought on March 27, 2006 05:19 PM
Internet law program, Berkman, me, then, now
Posted in Infothought on May 23, 2005 11:59 PM
Some numbers for reality-checks: Around six months ago, I estimated my readership at around 350. Now, many, many pages and even one blog defending freedom of expression award nomination later, I seem to be all the way up to ......
Posted in Infothought on May 6, 2005 11:59 PM
Update: Minus-One (i.e., ignored).
Posted in Infothought on April 4, 2005 09:19 PM
I finally wrote what turned out to be a long message to someone at Slashdot, regarding a possible sea change in the wake of the recent "Editor Upgrade". This isn't really an "open letter", but I figured I should...
Posted in Infothought on March 14, 2005 11:56 AM
There's a few items worth noting on the Slashdot "Editor Upgrade" story, and I as seem to be in the position of providing the most investigative facts on the matter, I'll do an update. Even a month later, nobody who...
Posted in Infothought on March 1, 2005 11:53 PM
It's not "Nothing's changed". Rather, it's "Too little has changed".
Posted in Infothought on February 17, 2005 02:04 PM
"E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down
the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!
THIS IS AN
EX-EDITOR!!"
Posted in Infothought on February 14, 2005 02:15 PM
My "hyperlocal journalism" efforts to find out more about the Slashdot "editor upgrade" seemed to have reached a dead-end. The only new information I have is: Watch the OSTG page of Editorial Bios (http://www.ostg.com/about/editorial_bios.htm). I believe if/when that page is...
Posted in Infothought on February 4, 2005 08:06 PM
There is a rumor that Slashdot has undergone an "editor upgrade". I don't know anything about it beyond what's available to the general public. In the tradition of, err, "hyperlocal journalism", I called the parent company, OSTG, and tried to...
Posted in Infothought on February 2, 2005 05:09 PM
Gatekeeper, gatekeeper, give me a link.
blog to my blog, track me a back.
Gatekeeper, gatekeeper, read through your feed
And give me a traffic link.
Posted in Infothought on December 17, 2004 11:59 PM
I've written the following sentiments before, but I'll do it again: The blog-blather hyping no-barriers is misleading and downright cruel. In the last few days, I've been trying to flack the previously-mentioned CDA trial press release. Besides the free-speech merits...
Posted in Infothought on November 12, 2004 01:03 AM
We are not a bunch of happy little blogging
bears all playing patty-cake with one another.
Posted in Infothought on August 2, 2004 11:59 PM
Dan Gillmor has a troll problem on his blog, to which he's seeking a solution. Good luck. I've been following the discussion with some interest. I've seen the troll postings, and it's not the worst as trolls go. Not the...
Posted in Infothought on July 13, 2004 11:59 PM
I did not write the following: Sometimes the truth is not in the middle. Sometimes the truth is simply that one person acted in a grossly immoral fashion, and everyone else is just trying to work out how best to...
Posted in Infothought on June 9, 2004 11:59 PM
Daniel Kreiss, who is doing "Blogging of a Thesis About Blogging", wrote an interview with me: Seth Finkelstein interview In the spirit of blogging, here's my partipatory journalism regarding it: Crashing Back Down to (a Realistic) Earth Had a long...
Posted in Infothought on May 9, 2004 06:13 PM
Ian Clarke has an excellent idea for a
nomination.
Posted in Infothought on April 13, 2004 06:23 PM
Tech Law Advisor (Kevin Heller) very kindly noted my previous "fair use" post, but the summary was just a little bit off: Seth F. makes fair use of the report on "Big Media" Meets The "Bloggers" [pdf] by printing to...
Posted in Infothought on March 8, 2004 08:18 AM
Walt Crawford's library 'zine (not blog) "Cites & Insights" in the March 2004 issue, has follow-up coverage regarding the hijacking of the Censorware Project domain renewed by Michael Sims. It's on page 15, "The Censorware Project Hijacking". He recounts the...
Posted in Infothought on February 21, 2004 05:11 PM
A never-posted-before message from Censorware Project attorney Jonathan Wallace, regarding
Michael Sims'
hijack of the domain
(recently renewed again).
Posted in Infothought on February 7, 2004 11:59 PM
Michael Sims, the Slashdot "editor", who hijacked the Censorware Project domain, recently renewed it again, continuing the hijacking he had done. The WHOIS data currently reads: Domain Name:CENSORWARE.ORG Created On:25-Feb-1998 05:00:00 UTC Expiration Date:24-Feb-2005 05:00:00 UTC [changed: 2004-01-19] I did...
Posted in Infothought on January 24, 2004 11:58 PM
Greplaw has an item CNN article on growth of web porn, about "CNN.com - Sex sells, especially to Web surfers": posted by scubacuda on Wednesday December 10, @02:07PM from the What-would-Seth-say? dept. David Burt writes "This is from the study...
Posted in Infothought on December 10, 2003 11:38 PM
As a follow-up to my post "Slashdot Respect" from two weeks ago, it does seem to have been "merely a special favor which won't be repeated" as opposed to "a harbinger of things to come". That is, since my inquiry...
Posted in Infothought on November 21, 2003 11:59 PM
I got an excellent, front page, mention in Friday's Slashdot article on Belkin Routers Route Users to Censorware Ad: Incidentally, the Crystal Ball Award goes to Seth Finkelstein, who in 2001 quoted John Gilmore's famous aphorism about the internet, and...
Posted in Infothought on November 8, 2003 11:58 PM
"I tried it that way, and it didn't work" - on the harsh realities of failed reputation-building, snipers, smearers, and unsustainable activism for
DMCA exemptions.
Posted in Infothought on October 28, 2003 02:19 PM
On reflected traffic, and connecting with why civil-libertarians may not be able to make the most of a possible upcoming DMCA/censorware ruling.
Posted in Infothought on October 15, 2003 08:32 PM
A bit of venting about the Power Of Slashdot and my reasons for quitting censorware research.
Posted in Infothought on October 8, 2003 10:56 PM
I never described why I called this recent series "State Secrets". That's a reference to an old joke about dictatorships: Another joke is about a student marching down the Avenue of Eternal Peace with a banner saying "Li Peng is...
Posted in Infothought on October 1, 2003 11:58 PM
For my own protection, I suppose I should write about the following thank-you note I sent today: Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:54:09 EDT To: [Rob Malda (head of Slashdot)] From: Seth Finkelstein Subject: Thanks for the posting, and a...
Posted in Infothought on September 20, 2003 11:59 PM
I can always tell when Michael Sims (one of Slashdot's "editors", in spite of being the domain-hijacker of Censorware Project) has done something abusive. This is not due to ESP, or a mystical connection (though he'd certainly claim my knowledge...
Posted in Infothought on August 30, 2003 08:32 PM
So, my site got a burst of activity yesterday generated from referers from Slashdot. Was it some hard-earned credit from my extensive activism work? No ... It turned out that Michael Sims, Slashdot "editor", had thrown a tiny temper-tantrum on...
Posted in Infothought on May 9, 2003 09:44 AM
I've still been pondering "the next step in the copyfight", as Donna Wentworth (Copyfight) put it. I'm thinking about this from the exact opposite of an abstract perspective. Remember, about a week ago, I did a grueling, almost round-the-clock trip...
Posted in Infothought on April 21, 2003 02:00 AM
Popular does not equal correct
Posted in Infothought on November 27, 2002 08:41 AM