Sommaren 2010 på var jag på Arvikafestivalen. Alice in Videoland spelade ganska tidigt på kvällen på Vintergatan (den största scenen). Det var inte mycket folk och jag kunde enkelt komma längst fram till kravallstaketet. Sedan hände något av det löjligaste jag varit med om. En publikvärd gick fram och ställde sig i vägen för mig när jag tog fram min kamera för att ta kort. Man fick inte fotografera på så nära håll från publiken vid Vintergatan.
Bra att fler festivalar än Emmaboda (som fram till 2011 inte ens krävt fotopass för att fotografera från diket) börjar förstå.
11:48 pm • 25 January 2012 • View comments
In 2009, Apple sold more iPhones than it did in 2007 and 2008 combined. In 2010, Apple sold more iPhones than it did in 2007, 2008, and 2009 combined. Last year, Apple sold 93.1 million iPhones, slightly more than it did in in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 combined.
— Matt Richman on Apple’s First Quarter Results
(Source: daringfireball.net)
11:14 pm • 24 January 2012 • View comments
Två olika lösningar
Både DN och SvD har mekanismer, som träder i kraft, om du lämnar deras förstasida öppen i din webbläsare längre än ett litet tag. Dessa mekanismer ser olika ut.
DN använder lite Javascript för att ladda om sidan var 10:e minut. Växlar du tabb och läser något annat en stund har innehållet kanske ändrats när du växlar tillbaka till tabben med dn.se.
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SvD använder enligt mig en snyggare lösning. Istället för att ladda om sidan använder de Ajax för att lägga in lite text på förstasidan, som berättar att vissa artiklar uppdaterats, eller att det kommit nya artiklar. Du kan till och med se vilka artiklar det rör sig om.
8:14 pm • 21 January 2012 • View comments
After the blackout
Wikipedia:
SOPA and PIPA are not dead: they are waiting in the shadows. What’s happened in the last 24 hours, though, is extraordinary. The internet has enabled creativity, knowledge, and innovation to shine, and as Wikipedia went dark, you’ve directed your energy to protecting it.
Marco Arment:
But what will happen when the MPAA buys the next SOPA? We can’t protest every similar bill with the same force. Eventually, our audiences will tire of calling their senators for whatever we’re asking them to protest this time.
Eventually, we will lose.
Such ridiculous, destructive bills should never even pass committee review, but we’re not addressing the real problem: the MPAA’s buying power in Congress. This is a campaign finance problem.
MG Siegler:
And again, they will. Consider this: SOPA and PIPA came this close to passing with MPAA head Chris Assclown Dodd banned from direct lobbying. Why is he banned? Because there’s a law that requires politicians to be two years out of office before they can lobby.
Dodd vacated his U.S. Senate seat on January 3, 2011. In a year, he’ll be able lobby all he wants. He’ll be able to directly buy the support of all his former colleagues. He spent 36 years in Washington as both a Senator and Congressman. You think that doesn’t matter? He’s going to be the best lobbyist ever. Which is exactly why the MPAA picked him.
7:25 pm • 21 January 2012 • 3 notes • View comments
So Jony Ive leads the design team at the two most-profitable phone makers. Impressive.
— John Gruber
11:30 pm • 11 January 2012 • View comments
iTunes and DRM
A week ago I bought a movie from iTunes. That was a mistake.
During boxing week I was at a friends house and we wanted to watch the movie. I had my laptop with me, but not my Mini DisplayPort adapter, so I couldn’t connect my computer to the projector. I shared the movie and my friend accessed from his computer. He couldn’t play it. The file was infected with DRM, Digital rights management (or rather digital restrictions management).
Okay, we could eventually play the movie. We had to use iTunes and I had to log in with the account that I had bought the movie with and authorize something. Maybe I’m naïve, but I was a bit amazed. I thought iTunes didn’t use DRM anymore, but apparently it’s only music that are DRM-free.
I won’t be buying any more movies from iTunes as long they are infected with DRM. When I pay for something, I want it to work, without hassle.
It’s sad that after more than ten years into the 21st century, we still have crap like DRM. That’s why organizations such as the EFF need our support.
2:52 pm • 5 January 2012 • 1 note • View comments
I’ve long believed that piracy is largely a business model problem not a human behavior problem. If you give people a legal way to consume the content they want, they will pay for it. But when you make it impossible to legally consume the content they want, they will pirate it.
— Fred Wilson
8:50 pm • 3 January 2012 • View comments
It now costs over a billion dollars a year to run Facebook, and delivering ads is how Facebook pays for this.
— About Advertising on Facebook
(Source: daringfireball.net)
10:43 am • 24 December 2011 • 3 notes • View comments
JP Auclair Street Segment from All.I.Can. by Sherpas Cinema
Worlds best movie in skiing.
11:55 pm • 18 December 2011 • 3 notes • View comments
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The Joy Formidable - Austere
7:55 pm • 18 December 2011 • View comments
Free web services are not like free software. If your free software project suddenly gets popular, you gain resources: testers, developers and people willing to pitch in. If your free website takes off, you lose resources. Your time is spent firefighting and your money all goes to the nice people at Linode.
— Don’t Be A Free User
4:37 pm • 17 December 2011 • View comments
