Internet Culture

This is a small website. The number of pageviews a month can be counted in the low tens-to-hundreds. The amount of traffic this page receives or would not receive today isn't even a concern. To that end, I don't know there was any impact to this website's traffic by using the script that redirected browsers to SOPAStrike.

Today was about showing support for and trying to educate about the need for sensible copyright laws in the US.

SOPA and PIPA, in the current forms, risk the crushing of a number of forms expression via the Internet. Yes, some of these forms of expression are questionable in their adherence to US copyright law. Some forms of expression utterly disregard copyright as well as concepts of fairness and fair use.

Yet the amount of content and conversation on the Internet that IS covered by fair use and in compliance with US copyright law that would be at risk is significantly larger body of work. And this is free speach.

This is a small website. The number of pageviews a month can be counted in the low tens-to-hundreds. The amount of traffic this page receives or would not receive today isn't even a concern. To that end, I don't know there was any impact to this website's traffic by using the script that redirected browsers to SOPAStrike.

Today was about showing support for and trying to educate about the need for sensible copyright laws in the US.

SOPA and PIPA, in the current forms, risk the crushing of a number of forms expression via the Internet. Yes, some of these forms of expression are questionable in their adherence to US copyright law. Some forms of expression utterly disregard copyright as well as concepts of fairness and fair use.

Yet the amount of content and conversation on the Internet that IS covered by fair use and in compliance with US copyright law that would be at risk is significantly larger body of work. And this is free speach.

Today we went to go see The Muppets. It's been something that we've been meaning to do since it was released.

What can I say, Muppets have been a part of both Natalie's and my life as long as either of us can really remember. And Muppets are fun.

The movie is pretty much what you would expect from a mid-70's-to-early-80's reintroduction/reboot movie. There were things about the orignial Muppets where they made fun of themselves and some of the things that they did in the original TV run or the earlier movies. There were a number of storylines that they hinted to but didn't address as completely as I thought they could have. Most of these had to do with how some of the Muppets get to where they are when they are first found in the story. I don't want to really do any spoilers, and this isn't really a movie review. More a follow up on the previous post. Honestly, this is a Disney movie.

Thursday after everyone was home, I found myself in a bit of a mood.
Working from home is all harder when you're having to split time watching after at least one kid home from school and running a fever. And on Tuesday I had to run out during a webinar and get Jacob from school because he had a fever. Sam was already home. Thursday, Sam was back at school and Jake could have gone, but we wanted to be sure we didn't have another relapse and that he was rested. For any number of reasons, I was ready to get out of the house. I had been either standing at my desk working or dealing with the boys being home sick or humoring Natalie after her day at school.

Back in November I started seeing some traffic about 0boxer, an attempt to encourage GMail users to embrace the Inbox Zero concept by turning e-mail into a game, complete with points and badges.

As I was looking for something to do, not really having anything other than work monopolizing my attention, I decided to give it a try. I was already trying to use my e-mail how I would consider correctly. And Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero video describes a fair amount of how I think about e-mail. If you haven't seen the video, it might be worth it to watch it.

What it comes down to is that most people use e-mail (and most other systems for moving information around) in a way that actually makes e-mail harder to use. These behaviors range from organizing e-mail too aggressively, to not organizing it at all, to leaving everything in the inbox, making it near impossible to find anything. Merlin Mann explains a lot of these dysfunctions in the video.