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The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA: I announced my opposition to SOPA in December. Congress should take steps to protect intellectual property, but not at the expense of the openness that facilitates innovation online. The proposed bill would impose a new bureaucratic presence on the internet and eliminate current online copyright protections. Other provisions of the bill are questionable on free speech grounds — for example, the requirement that search engines delete sites deemed in violation of the law from their search results. I was encouraged to see so many get involved as advocates over the past several weeks as websites like Wikipedia and Google echoed what I’ve heard from constituents for some time. My office received hundreds of calls, and I appreciate constituents’ taking time to weigh in.
I know SOPA is technically “on hold” but I thought this was nice to see from someone that represents me.
So I am working on a new project with Twitter that I am calling the “Raleigh Blog Bot” for lack of any other better name or concept. The premise is it will take blog posts from local bloggers, convert the post to a tweet and tweet it using Yahoo Pipes and Twitterfeed.com. So far it looks like it is working. This is of course a very basic test. I’d like to find something more useful to do with the program.
This is where you can help. What would be useful? Is there an information aggregator that would make sense? It seems like something that would be worthwhile – condensed information populated automatically. That being said – I know I use info differently than most people.
So give me your feedback. Of course there are limitations – he can’t make you a sandwich. But there might be some function out there that would be useful or cool. We just need to figure out what it is.
Editor’s Note: I’ve read xkcd for a long time and think it is one of the many things that makes the internet great. This is an awesome post by one of the most humorous geeks out there.
Learn more:
EFF: One-page guide to SOPA
reddit: A technical overview of the SOPA and PIPA bills
DYN: How these bills would break DNS
EFF: Free speech on the web
Click the dogs to the right and watch “The Bark Side: 2012 Volkswagen Game Day Commercial Teaser.”
The bark side? Awesome.
Maybe the Super Bowl won’t suck this year.
To be fair we never really visited LMFAO and their hit song “Sexy and I Know It” but that won’t stop us from revisiting them. First off local celebrity / noted father of Evan Rachel Wood (3 names – you know they are good actors) performing a dramatic reading of the song.
Then a video mash-up of our friend He-man and the song.
Why post this? How often do you see a lot of wood and He-man in the same place? Unless you are hanging out with BobG on a Saturday brew tour probably never. Sorry that was “Metalhead” not He-man. Details.
Wiggle?