Michael E. Casey's Blog, page 12
June 2, 2009
fiercely protective of his intellectual property
J.D. Salinger on Monday sued the writer and publisher of a book billed as a sequel to his classic novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” saying the work infringes on his copyright.
Salinger is asking a judge to block publication of “60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye” written by an author identified as J.D. California…
…The lawsuit describes Salinger as “fiercely protective of his intellectual property” and says he “would not approve of defendants’ use of his intellectual property.”
a time comes when silence is betrayal
[image error]Nicholas Kristof is like a pit bull. When he adopts a cause he doesn’t let go. He throws it in our face over and over again. But one of his more recent posts caught the attention of Sheril Kirshenbaum, a blogger over at Discover Magazine who was, herself, recently assaulted. She has taken the outrage and anger from her awful ordeal and created Silence is the Enemy, an initiative to raise global awareness regarding the mass rapes going on in so many war torn and post-war countries.
Kirshenbaum wri
June 1, 2009
social software and national security
The National Defense University’s Mark Drapeau and Linton Wells published Social Software and National Security: An Initial Net Assessment, which looks at the role social networking plays and will continue to play in domestic and international politics, especially with regards to national security issues. They take a very balanced look at social networking tools, unlike many security experts who immediately highlight the negatives but fail to see the positives and the inevitability of social net
flowers, kids, andy warhol picnic plates, etc
Hope you all had a good weekend. I spent a bit of time at the Atlanta Botanical Garden on Sunday and took a few images. This photo was taken in the orchid house, where I spent most of my time because of the bright sun and heat outside. The Garden recently completed a large renovation which includes a LEED-certified visitor center, a 100,000 gallon cistern to hold rainwater, and a “green” parking facility. You can see more from my visit here.
While we’re on the subject of Botanical gardens, take a
May 29, 2009
open source is collaboration
From Holly Ross over on the Nonprofit Technology Network comes Open Source is Dead! Long Live Open Source!
…have you ever implemented an open source solution? We have here at NTEN. We use all kinds of open source tools, including our content management system, Drupal. Sure, it’s highly customizable — by a highly trained staffer, or a highly paid consultant. The code was free, but we paid tens of thousands of dollars to get our implementation up and running. And I’m going to be honest here: I try
geeks and government
Mark Drapeau is the co-founder of the Government 2.0 Club, which bills itself as an international platform for sharing knowledge about the intersection between technology and governance. I just want to highlight a few things from this fascinating post and then you can go read the whole thing for yourself.
…people inside the Beltway are understanding that new ideas and new technologies can bridge gaps between government and the citizens (and that outsiders are starting to utilize such technologies
May 28, 2009
what’s in a name? that which we call a rose…
Reading the New York Time’s blog Globespotters, I saw this post about The School of Life in London. So I vistied the site (because it sounds like a cool school) and I found something called Bibliotherapy, which they describe as:
Once upon a time, it was easy to find books that you could enjoy and felt were relevant. Now a new book is published every 30 seconds, and you would need 163 lifetimes to get through all the books offered on Amazon. That’s why The School of Life has set up a bibliotherapy
May 26, 2009
ice cubes, chocolate syrup, and a bit of rough play
I read a lot of photography blogs every day and today I ran across this really cool series of videos of young kids testing the durability of the new Olympus Stylus Tough digital camera. They do everything from freezing the cameras in blocks of ice to running over them with their tricycles and dousing them in chocolate syrup — it looks like they had a really fun time. Olympus is to be commended for making and marketing these videos that speak directly to their target audience.
Other videos:
Episode
May 21, 2009
and you thought you had deleted that embarassing photo
Interesting new study out of Cambridge on social networking sites and what happens when users try to delete their own photographs.
The researchers posted photographs on 16 popular websites and noted the web addresses where the images were stored, before deleting them.
But researchers said that although the images appeared to have gone, they were still able to find them 30 days later on seven sites, including Facebook, by using the direct web addresses.
Special photo-sharing sites, such as Flickr an
