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DRM & DCMA

Phil Windley has written a very interesting article on DRM & DCMA. I couldn't agree more. DCMA (and DRM) is not about protecting intellectual property rights. It is really about protecting business models.

The worse part is that we're letting it happen. Everybody is raving about the iTunes store model, etc. It is truly amazing how much rights/freedom we are willing to sacrifice in the name of convenience.

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Sphere

I'm trying out Sphere, a new blog search engine. The search results are pretty good, but the page design is totally ineffective.

See for yourself:

All of the attention is focused towards the least important elements of the page, the search-bar and sidebars.

Even the orange profile images are distracting from the actual results.

And don't even get me started on the use of bold text…

Learn from Google; Keep it simple, stupid.

The Pulse

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