Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing posted about Matt Mason’s Pirate’s Dilemma, a book about our current culture of piracy. Seems the book is being turned into a series with the help of Jesse Alexander (”Heroes” and “Lost”) and here’s the trailer:

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Cheers.
P. S. Today is a holiday here in Canada and that means I […]

The New York Times reports that veteran commercial producer, audio archivist and media guru, Tony Schwartz, has passed away at the age of 84.
Schwartz was perhaps best known for the famous “Daisy” ad that ran once in the 1964 U.S. presidential campaign and clinched the election for Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater.

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But Schwartz was more […]

Hey there! Hi there! Ho there!
Yup, it’s Round-Up Day here at the ol’ Millsworks blog but instead of giving you a fat list of my past posts here’s my coverage on the newly introduced Canadian Copyright Bill C-61.
We knew it was coming, we knew they were gonna try and sugar-coat it and we […]

Gizmodo has a post about an upcoming release of a Slingbox app for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Go the Gizmodo post to watch a video of it in action - it’s pretty fucking cool.
For those of you unfamiliar with Slingbox (and their other related products) it is essentially a way of connecting you with […]

The current U.S. Presidential campaign is so ludicrously surreal as to make Vonnegut and H. S. Thompson seem as hard-core realists. I remember fondly this bald dumpy old fella with the personality of a sack of fertilizer who led a nation through military victory and subsequent cultural recovery. His parting words, alas, were […]

Just reading that headline makes me laugh.
I posted a while ago in this pathetic excuse for a blog about how I thought the Wachowski sibling’s latest film “Speed Racer” was going to mark a new era in cinema. At that time, and certainly since with the dismal box office performance of the film, I […]

Jonathan Rintels has written an article in the Huffington Post which is entitled: Big Media Continues to Fight Against Net Neutrality that is worth taking note of:

The goal of Big Media and the ISPs is nothing less than to turn today’s wide open Internet into a closed system more akin to cable television. The […]

Let’s all wear funny hats and celebrate - the world is going Copyright Crazy!
First off the mark is Cory Doctorow and his post over on BoingBoing on how the U.S. driven copyright lobby in Canada is now charging around the public square like a frothing rabid dog:

The lobby for US-style copyrights in Canada has gone […]

I posted earlier about a concept put forth by Kevin Kelly in his Technium bog, wherein the 1,000 True Fans economic model was proposed; the idea being an artist could support themselves independently online if they had 1,000 True Fans - each of whom would be willing to part with a day’s salary over the […]

Two separate reports today about two separate events but both are directly related to the wildly diverse perceptions about copyright which are being flung about in America today.
The first is the PBS science series “NOVA” and their news, as reported in Wired’s Underwire blog:

When Tuesday’s Nova special, “Car of the Future,” rolls its end credits, […]