Recently

February was a busy month. My mind was split between new projects, dc, refueling a big project, and working on a big one.

Listening

Buke and Gase - General Dome - ‘Hard Times’ was the song of the month.
Atoms for Peace - AMOK - Thom Yorke hijinks and Flea minus RHCP. Quality album.
Yo La Tengo - Fade - plus seeing them in-concert at the 9:30 Club
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - We the Common and Emancipator’s Dusk to Dawn - both by fellow William & Mary grads.

Plus reviewing four tracks to follow-up Teen Mom’s album, Mean Tom

got a twine and a leap and I need to learn more

Away From Keyboard is fantastic. I expected it to be a bit over the top or poorly produced, but it’s really a quality piece of film and journalism.

Quite a bit. I posted about the DC Code’s compilation, process, copyright status, propriety, and access, so there’s been a lot to learn.

A few highlights:

Tear Down this (Pay)Wall
Clickwrap and Browse wrap - two of the important elements of the problems with the DC Code
No Law - a great text about copyright law
ProCD vs. Zeidenberg - a court case establishing the validity of click-wrap and its ability to override copyright
Summaries of Fair Use Cases - since fair use is per-case, this gives good examples of how those cases have gone.
A Short Lesson in Perspective - depressing and valid
Google Invades
Peter Thiel’s Infantile Culture
Fix the Law to Fix America

Presented on d3.js at the DC jQuery Meetup. First presentation using tributary.io and mistakes.
Copyedited and illustrated a blog post series by John Firebaugh: 1, 2, 3.