Posts by giovanni tiso
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Yes, as I said I don't think it gets Ihimaera out of jail, but it was interesting - especially the transparency and reciprocity thing, the example of Paul Simon with Graceland (in the midst of so many other ban analogies) was quite good.
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No, I wouldn't call you as wrong on that prediction. But to really take off with people who are disinclined to use technology, the devices need to become much, much more book-like. Open like a book, appearance of having pages, etc.
I really don't see why. The Kindle does a pretty good job of replicating the appearance of a book page already, who cares that pages scroll on the one display instead of you having to turn them? It's a very intuitive system. And a ton of people who are not generally early adopters - such as the aged - will appreciate some of the advantages, such as being able to increase the legibility at will.
As for the format thing, all that they need to do is to be able to import from formats like PDF. That's the game changer.
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I don't think there is, no. Plus figuring out who gets to decide what an attack blogger is might be problematic.
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I believe you, I'm just wondering about the etiquette of such things. Not totally non-pertinent since it's authorship week after all :-)
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Oh, the CBC doco cites Lethem's very interesting Promiscuous Materials Project.
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The mention to World War in 1917, as pointed out in one of the reviews.
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Established artists? New artists? Metallica and Britney above, say, Minuit (whose name I picked because I just saw a BDO advert)? If the internet is a democratising force, which I think most of us would agree it is, that includes some degree of democratisation of income.
Anybody who is included in the exchange must be recognised. But that's of course immensely problematic of course. I'm talking principles here - because I think it's important to.
As for the book thing, my personal feeling of person who's generally wrong about these things is that it's going to explode in the next couple of years, tops. And a library is one thing - it has limited reach and each library shelves a limited number of titles as (very importantly) a limited number of copies of each. A global digital library of the kind that the Napster clones are for music or film is a whole nother thing.
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Well, I for one didn't know who she was.
A lot of people here know Deborah's surname, but when it was mentioned by mistake by Paul Williams you quickly removed it - I think if she wanted *everybody* to know who she was then she would have put it on her blog. I mean Cactus Kate. Or indeed Deborah.
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Care of David Cauchi, a great little programme on plagiarism from the CBC Ideas programme hosted by Paul Kennedy. Scroll all the way down to In Praise of Plagiarism.
Jolisa might be interested in the observation that plagiarism hunters historically have been a very poorly regarded group.
What Jonathan Lethem says from minute 15 onwards is quite relevant to historical novels.
ETA It doesn't get Ihimaera off the hook whichever way you slice it, mind. Still, quite an interesting wee primer.
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I find it interesting that you outed her real identity. Given that her blog is studiously anonymous, it rankled with me a little bit.