Perhaps you saw this terrific story in the New York Times yesterday about a Manhattan artist who specializes in kinetic art. What he especially enjoys is building modern-day Rube Goldberg devices.
It’s bitter cold in D.C. tonight. Low 20s at best. Shivering in my own house, I decided there was only one cure: a soak in the hot tub.
Were I lawyer, I think I might get involved in copyright. Enshrined in our constitution, copyright was created in the United States “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”
It’s a beautifully written statement, describing the rationale and the parameters of copyright. “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,” and “securing for a limited time.”
I’ve never been a big New Year‘s resolution kind of guy, but this year that’s all changing. I’ve made two resolutions… first, to get into shape and the second is to regularly post to my blog. Neither of these resolutions is particularly original, of course, but they are the two things I most want to accomplish in 2012.
Although I’ve lead training sessions on how to be a good blogger, I rarely take my own advice. Good bloggers tend to have a narrow subject matter and post regularly, among other attributes. I do neither.
The Online News Association’s Session Selector for the 2011 conference in Boston has received 179 submissions, and now voting is open. With that in mind, I made a quick TagCloud (actually, I DETEST TagClouds/WordClouds) showing the most popular words used in the submissions. Check it out here (click the cloud to enlarge it and see it on Wordle):
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