I have operated an Internet-based Christmas music radio station since November 2004. In 2006 I took the station professional, and in December 2006 ended up being the third most popular station of the approximate 7,000 stations at Live365. On March 2, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) issued the significantly higher new royalty rates for Internet …
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One of the most popular sections of PlanetMike is my Jokes collection (which I have about two years of updates to add to it!). A few of the items listed in there aren’t actually jokes, but are inspirational tales, notes, or poems. One of these was titled “Christmas List.” I received it in my email …
It’s now been two weeks since I left my full-time job for the Center for Democracy & Technology to become a stay-at-home contractor. And there are a few things I don’t miss about being in DC: Spending at least one hour each way traveling The sounds of people yakking on their cell phones on the …
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It’s now been two weeks since I left my full-time job for the Center for Democracy & Technology to become a stay-at-home contractor. And there are a few things I miss about being in DC: Seeing the monuments from up close (from the car or bus window usually) Waiting for the evening bus at the …
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Two years ago something happened to me and my wife that will probably be a part of us for the rest of our lives. I know it will probably define our relationship for a good while to come. It still hurts to talk about it, but we don’t talk about it often. It is amazing …
Susan Crawford shares the story of complexity in music and shares the theory that people like complexity. I think that is a little too broad a statement. Otherwise, how can we explain the iPod’s popularity; and the mantra of Steve Jobs/Apple to “keep it simple?”
Susan Crawford shares an interesting story about a talk about the value of making law review articles available to a wider audience, mainly via the web. “But I’m not sure that the current system of innumerable student-reviewed law journals is sustainable.” Why not? I’m not a lawyer, so maybe I’m not understanding the law review …
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If I were attending a costume party this Halloween season, here is what I’d go as: Mark Foley’s Little Black Book. Why? Because it would be full of pages. Buh dah bum.
It’s is not, it isn’t ain’t, and it’s it’s, not its, if you mean it is. If you don’t, it’s its. Then too, it’s hers. It isn’t her’s. It isn’t our’s either. It’s ours, and likewise yours and theirs. — Oxford University Press, Edpress News
In Voting Sucks, Devin Reams discusses his concerns with the entire voting process. His frustrations are fairly reasonable. He should do what I generally do (95+% of the time): Vote for the person running against the incumbent. He’s right, incumbents almost always win. So I try to encourage the person with the guts to challenge …
