among other things, Marco Arment takes issue with "via" links. I used to not bother with them, but realized I do find it interesting where a given site found a link, so I try and provide them where possible. I think it's only interesting for obscure links, not for newspaper articles, and it's not always something you know / remember.

I found it really odd how he conflates source and via links in the Daring Fireball example, but then I read <a href="http://www.curatorscode.org/">the page that prompted his post</a> and see that it's done there too. Via = source, hat tip = via? Bullspit. The source link is the actual link, and "via" is how you got there. I got to Barrie via Highway 400. I got to this article about creative-commons licensed mashups via Boing Boing.

reasoned consideration of the Oatmeal / Game of Thrones piracy issue. I don't agree though - the window model is something that is in the process of being radically reworked, as any kind of enforced scarcity system should be at the moment, yet HBO has longer windows than anyone. I do like how VanDerWerff realizes that HBO has painted itself into a corner.

re <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones">that Oatmeal comic</a> from before. Dunno, I see both sides. There are so many ways of doing things now that it seems like bad business to stick to one or two customer-hostile methods.

A meditation on Gchat

"If a show debuts without a premiere, will anyone watch it? That's the multi-million-dollar koan Netflix is looking to answer. And fast."

not in Canada they ain't. I love netflix, but a few months in the shallow catalog is starting to feel pretty constraining up here.

highest in the world for online video viewing, and still going higher. Keep this in mind for usage-based billing debates

encouraging developments from the Kindle store - indie ebooks are selling for less yet making their writers more money than traditional publishers' fare. (<a href="http://waxy.org/">via</a>)

great analysis of what's going on with the UBB fiasco. I think Netflix is the elephant in the room, as it competes with the ISPs' own VOD services as well as with cable / sat TV in general.

there are 825 million net users in Asia vs. 266 million in North America. Plus many more interesting numbers.

Patton Oswalt on the 'apopcalypse' - "A billion years after our sun burns out, a race of intelligent ice crystals will build a culture based on dialog from The Princess Bride." (via <a href="http://whatadaythatwas.blogspot.com">What a Day That Was</a>)

petition against usage-based billing being forced on indie ISPs in Canada

it's here finally - $8 a month. Selection does seem limited, especially new release films and TV series, but there is still a shit ton of stuff that I would watch.

inside baseball with the movie bootlegging crowd

Clay Shirky fights the enemies of the innernette

MeFi members help save two girls from sex traffickers. Total craziness.

review of a book from the author of the essay "Is Google Making Us Stupid?".

new version of the excellent FTP app is out today

Twitter buys Tweetie.

The dark fibre is gonna light up?

torrenting of Oscar screeners is way, way down this year

J-Ko speculates their motivation is speed - faster loading = more web searches = more money

the net as divided into cable-style "packages"

new Japanese name for Twitter

I hope they go the right way this time.

interview from before the trial

agreed.

"Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn't even give them the ashes."

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

tracking predictions

from a journalism perspective, but holds true elsewhere

TPB trial will be over on wednesday. Meanwhile, the site was subject to a DDOS attack today that put it down for hours

good overview of the whole situation

boxee forced to stop carrying Hulu by request of big media

"In the past, scarcity [making content available only in one place] bred value... but in the present and the future, scarcity breeds piracy."

reactionary but thought-provoking. bare minimum answer = basic media literacy

crazy - 250,000 subscribers on youtube and very little mainstream press

throttling not as effective as upgrading some hardware

music marketing platform

how the internet is affecting how we read/think. I skimmed it, saved it to delicous and moved on

soulseek client

about Bell Canada throttling indie ISPs

torrenting up 24% since november

great account of the 'anonymous' assault on Scientology

no kidding.

"Last year, by one estimate, the video site YouTube, owned by Google, consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet did in 2000."

on what has value in the age of digital copies

the promise of storing all one's data remotely