Over the years I've held various positions with regard to copyright and paying for non-physical information. With the Times in the UK opting for a paywall and a website which is effectively all user-generated content that I frequent often also moving towards a subscription based model I have been thinking about where I stand again. I hold conflicting opinions, as I am both a producer of copyrightable material and a consumer of that material. I'm going to lay both of these bags of snakes out straight and see what they look like.
My previous post on Hit The Road talked about the development, and how much fun it was to be involved at the startup weekend. Since then we have been developing the site further, and we have added a lot of features, such as bookmarkable URLs.
"I believe that we must attack these things in which we do not believe. Not attack by the method of cutting off the heads of the people, but attack in the sense of discuss. I believe that we should demand that people try in their own minds to obtain for themselves a more consistent picture of their own world; that they not permit themselves the luxury of having their brain cut in four pieces or two pieces even, and on one side they believe this and on the other side they believe that, but never try to compare the two points of view. Because we have learned that, by trying to put the points of view that we have in our head together and comparing one to the other, we make some progress in understanding and in appreciating where we are and what we are. And I believe that science has remained irrelevant because we wait until somebody asks us questions or until we are invited to give a speech on Einstein's theory to people who don't understand Newtonian mechanics, but we never are invited to give an attack on faith healing or astrology--on what is the scientific view of astrology today.
I've had my Nexus One for a few months now, and it is truly amazing. I can get the answer to any question with a few taps of the screen. It is fantastic. But, do I now have too many lines of communication?
As a budding entrepreneur and a member of the web community I attended the Dublin Web Summit last night in the Chartered Accountants Ireland building on Pearse Street. The summit had a good line up of speakers, including Michael Birch, Bebo founder, and Ray Nolan, a home grown success story with HostelWorld.
