Biella, who runs the best reading group in the universe, and is the Bay Area’s free software community’s very own anthropologist, now has a blog. This is good news for me, because it means I can secretly discover what The Ruckus Society is without having to ask.
Evil twists that killed Internet radio. Mark Cuban, the man who cut the Yahoo!/RIAA deal that the US Library of Congress ruling was based upon, admits that it was designed to destroy competition in the Internet radio market.
The Yahoo! deal I worked on, if it resembles the deal the CARP ruling was built on, was designed so that there would be less competition, and so that small webcasters who needed to live off of a “percentage-of-revenue” to survive, couldn’t.
There’s something a bit awry with Google’s indexing of my site. Which is to say – it ain’t doing it. Despite Googlebot sniffing around, it’s only indexed a few of the static pages.
Of course, some of that might be down to Oblomovka’s singular lack of Google Juice, but I’m thinking maybe it’s also my code. Each of the day entries also shows the subsequent seven days of entries, which a lot of the pages appear rather similar to each other. Could the bot hive mind think I’m trying to game the ranking? There’s not an easy hack to fix this – I’m going to wait a week and see if anything turns up.
So it turns out that under Virgin Mobile USA, you still pay for incoming and outgoing calls – even though the FCC okayed “calling party pays” three years ago. Strike one. Next question: do prepaid minutes last forever, or do they expire after a couple of months, like every braindead US prepaid phone scheme until now?
After all the confusion during the RIP Order debate, I’ve written a first approximation of who can get hold of your communications data (like Web logs, e-mail addresses, etc) from your ISP. It’s up on the STAND site now.