“This is a genuinely radical idea: individuals should hire lawyers to negotiate their personal use of cultural material, or at least refrain from sharing their cultural activities with others (except it’s not’s really culture if you’re not sharing it, is it?).

It’s also a dumb idea. People aren’t going to hire lawyers to bless the singalong or Timmy’s comic book. They’re also not going to stop doing culture.”

– The Guardian: It’s time to overhaul copyright law

“In my past lives there is no doubt what I did- I was in a kitchen.

I may have been male or female- perhaps I was a monk baking bread for a whole monastery. Perhaps an old mother with a brood of children who only saw them when they came out of the fields to eat some of her bread. I’ll never know for sure, but I know when I touch something I created with the chemistry of my kitchen, I feel a smidgen of warmth and love, as I feel a wave of motherly ecstasy when I hug my child; I have a small bit of that satisfaction when I eye my baked goods.

When they are eaten, though, I don’t think of it as death. That bread is being broken down in the bodies of the people I love, the glucose created by the disintegrated carbs feeding the cells in the bodies I hold most dear. My product becomes part of that person forever- even in the form of fat. (not all fat’s bad :D )”

– Myspace.com Blogs: My soul, in a loaf of bread by veed (one of the good people I’ll miss from Myspace)

“This bulletin will probably be short lived, but I figured I’d better give at least some advance warning. If you hadn’t heard, today is International Delete Your Myspace Account Day, a movement started by people who are so tired of Myspace’s waste of perfectly good packets that they decided to exit simultaneously on one Glorious Day.
Friends, I invite you to drink this here glass of kool-aid to rid yourself of the wretched Myspace flesh that’s weighing you down and join me on the Great Network in the Sky that is Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Lisa_Brewster/667959782

See you on the other side.”

– The first and only Myspace bulletin I’ll ever post – International Delete Your Myspace Account Day

“This is going to be a fabulous way to increase traffic and tighten up the network connections on small to medium blogs that have trouble outranking the greasy SEO types on traditional search engines. This service will facilitate more emails like “Hi, I’m a friend of so-and-so and was really impressed with your thoughts on #topic. Let’s find each other at the next Lunch 2.0 to exchange ideas!””

– TechCrunch: Lisa’s comment on “Delver Comes Out Of Stealth With a New Twist on Social Search”