Feb 11, 2009
Media & Publishing
“They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.” — New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir
Yeah. It’s like saying “You can’t sing that Beatles song”.
We don’t pay for the individual letters or words in the book, but rather for the whole content, the idea and the story. Words spoken out loud are not derivate work of the same words in writing.
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Feb 8, 2009
Random Musings
Long time favorite — Jill Barber — on video and audio.
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Feb 4, 2009
Random Musings
I still believe in two hearts by Christina Martin & Aveiro (and praça do peixe, to be precise) in Portugal.
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Dec 19, 2008
WordPress
Definitely check out the special episode of WordPress Weekly podcast (RSS) hosted by Jeff Chandler where Matt Mullenweg explains why WordPress, GPL and Open Source matters.
I am finally publishing my Widget Context plugin as an α release at the official plugin repository. If you find a bug, or if you know how to fix that bug where the context settings are not saved for widgets that are added fresh to the sidebar on the first ‘Save’, then please leave a comment. Read more »
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Dec 17, 2008
Meta, WordPress
Here is a list of plugins that are currently active behind this blog. Read more »
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Dec 12, 2008
WordPress
Here is an idea for all the ‘premium’theme authors out there. How about releasing themes under GPL and making style.css the only commercial asset. This would even fall into a much lighter gray area compared to Automattic’s own ‘Custom CSS’feature (which in fact is a feature provided by GPL code) for $15/year. Ironically, this is a fee for the ability to modify a theme released under GPL.
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Dec 12, 2008
WordPress
Leon Chevalier — author of the amazing PHP Speedy plugin — has updated it to work with WordPress 2.7. Read more »
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Dec 9, 2008
WordPress
I have managed to add this blog as a subscriber to my identi.ca account. This means that I can post directly from Identi.ca (or any other application that supports OpenMicroBlogging (OMB) protocol, such as Laconi.ca) to my blog.
To achieve this I wrote a plugin that uses the power of XRDS-Simple plugin to generate Yadis document which specifies the location of OAuth and postNotice, as required by OMB (see konstruktors.com/blog/?xrds). A modified version of WP-OAuth plugin takes care of OAuth 1.0 dance (for the initial authorization and all the update notices) and adds support for receiving updates from the listenee (any Laconi.ca application on your phone, for example). Read more »
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Dec 7, 2008
Design
Bitstream Charter is a glyphic serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter which I discovered only recently in Ubuntu 8.10 (it ships with X11). It is definitely one of the most beautiful serif fonts that I have ever seen. At first sight it looks similar to Liberation Serif but is more rounded and easier to read. Read more »
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Nov 18, 2008
Web Design, WordPress
Since the feedback for the mock-up of the podcast theme for was so great, here is a little preview of how far I have gotten. Read more »
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