Vermont attorney Andrew B. Delaney teaches a master class in responding to a really excessive copyright cease and desist letter. (URL fixed)
(Via ATL of all places.)
Previously:
No, this is isn’t a commercial for We Robot 2014 — that comes in a week or two when we issue the Call for Papers.
I was just looking at my Akismet Stats. Although blog readership is down (but Twitter followership — of a feed that is pretty much all auto-tweets from this blog — are way up), there is one category where numbers are booming: spam. The year isn’t over yet, and I’ve had twice as many as last year — more than 348,000 spam messages through the end of August.
Of those messages, just eleven got through my two-stage filters: Askimet plus the WordPress Hashcash Extended plugin.
Meanwhile there were an average of about a hundred real comments per month; I think a grand total of maybe one or two got wrongly held for one reason or another.
Found on one of UMiami Law’s very civilized web pages:
“Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other.”
– Louis Stanley Jast, Librarian
(I hope no one on the Board of Trustees reads my blog. They have enacted all sorts of rules about when University funds cannot be spent on Intoxicating Liquors and the like. Perhaps books are next?)
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