Tweets are like the air. Anyone can do anything like to them, including quoting them with or without your permission. If an enterprising company wants to take something you said on Twitter and slap it on a tee shirt, they may do so. If a gent of the disturbed persuasion wants to engrave your tweet into a 600-foot swastika, he may do so.
— You cannot copyright a Tweet – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
The corporation’s web pages are to be halved, backed by a 25 per cent cut in staff numbers. Its £112 million budget will also be cut by 25 per cent. It is also pledging to include more links to newspaper articles to drive traffic to the websites of rival publishers.
A busy day in that London. Battersea, Angel, South Bank. Going well so far though!
Surprised by how consistently charming and helpful the guys on One Born Every Minute are. Making us blokes look very good…
The creative industries have long been the darling of the public sector, with local councils, the regional screen agency, Screen WM, and the regional development agency, Advantage West Midland (AWM), singling them out for special investment and support. But the sector – which spans the worlds of media, digital marketing, music, video games and film – is likely to face a very different post-election reality, and is particularly vulnerable given the large sums of public money currently channelled into it and the imperative on both sides of the political divide to make cutbacks.
in a bad mood. entirely of my own making…
Heading back from that London with @timkit. Picking up a major brummie snow vibe over Twitter. Hoping it’s no big deal. Want to go home!
Wave remains an over-engineered and under-designed product that was poorly prepped for general introduction beyond a small developer base, which has become an all-too-familiar Google ritual.
— Buzz launch wasn’t flawed, Google’s intentions are « counternotions
