January 2010
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What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on...
All of these works are famous — that is why we included them here. And the authors of famous and commercially successful works would probably renew the copyright for a second term of 28 years. But we know from the Copyright Office that 85% of authors did not renew their copyrights (for books, the number is even higher – 93% did not renew), since most works exhaust their commercial value very...
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“At Oxford University, sometime in the 19th century, the roof of New College’s...”
– Anecdote (mostly apocryphal) introducing GOOD magazine’s “Slow Down” issue, which I just got in the mail today and which I’m particularly loving. (via caro) (via fluffynotes)
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“Even medieval serfs worked fewer hours, and at a slower pace, than modern...”
– How to Drop Out (via sturob) (via notational)
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December 2009
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“It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure. ~ Clay Shirky”
– About via The Daily Curator - Top stories and discussions, smart crowd sourced, with editorial finish. I hope this is the future in 2010. (via bettyann) (via notational)
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“Try to design for use rather than for features.”
– Kevlin Henney, Omit Needless Code (via mnmal)
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125 Years of Topographic Mapping →
from the USGS (Part 1, 1884 - 1980)
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“The more I do with and around social data, the less interested I seem to become...”
– Kevin Marshall, co-founder Wow.ly, Twitter 2.0: API Rate Change Could Lead to a World of New Apps & Features (via factoryjoe) (via giantrobotlasers)
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“PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas...”
– Jon Ribbens
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