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Just watched Be Kind Rewind on PirateCity. In the interests of research, I tested an illegal video service that streams movies for free. The quality is fairly poor — somewhere between YouTube and Vimeo. And not ideally, I watched this widescreen movie in 4:3. Jack Black seems a lot slimmer nowadays. As I am sure you know, Sue me now: I have used BitTorrent to sample stuff I was not in a position to buy or was not sure whether I wanted to buy. It’s been piracy, legally, but my defences, which I am sure wouldn’t see me win in court, but which might help here are: (a) I buy more music and games than most I introduced my colleague Alan to the term ‘Abandonware’ today. As a net-savvy individual, I was surprised he’d not come across it before. But, then again, it’s only really current among gamers. Abandonware is software that has been given-up by its original developers and publishers. Normally, it applies to old games which fans still love, I never quote Seth Godin. I find his stuff far too happy-clappy for my comfort zone (ach– another americanism!) Yet here I am: Seth on America choosing Neil Armstrong as their ‘moon landing guy’: NASA did what many organizations do when picking someone to act as company spokesperson. They avoided risk, played it safe and I left a comment on a blog that wouldn’t leave me alone all day. So here’s a fuller response, and I hope it breaks my blogger’s block. Antony Mayfield is delighted with Dell’s approach to social media, as represented in this video interview, in particular. Even without that, it’s clear that the company has embraced many of the My blog has been found by a coven of Carphone Warehouse fans, it seems. Three new comments in seven minutes on an old post. Crikey. And all of them about how wonderful the company is. You may recall I had a bit of a run-in with the company a month or so ago. But everything was apparently cleared |             | |||
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