Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Canine Editor
Given what I'm writing about, this really made me laugh:
(Used with permission from Debbie Ridpath Ohi at Inkygirl.com)
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
DRM this!
Hi hate Digital Right Management schemes almost as much as the next guy. Sure, the direction media are moving towards prevents me from doing things I used to do. I can't loan the movie I watched last night in streaming like I could have done with DVDs or, if anyone remembers those, VHS tapes. I cannot loan the book I just finished without handing my precious Kindle as well.
However, I have to admit that I've never been much of a book loaner. In fact, books are pretty much the only things for which I write down every time whom I have loaned to, at least since losing a bunch of them forever in high school. And movies, well, I never liked buying them in the first place.
Even better: for a monthly fraction of what a single DVD would have cost me 10 years ago I can have unlimited streaming of movies directly to any wired or wireless room I enter. And I can read a Kindle book at lunchtime on a laptop somewhere, come home after work, pick up the Kindle and continue reading exactly where I left on the laptop at work. Could I do this with traditional media? Hardly, not at least without acquiring and carrying everywhere a bunch of bulky physical objects.
Will these help me getting over DRM limitations? I'm definitely thinking about it. After all, why should any of these perks come for free?
However, I have to admit that I've never been much of a book loaner. In fact, books are pretty much the only things for which I write down every time whom I have loaned to, at least since losing a bunch of them forever in high school. And movies, well, I never liked buying them in the first place.
Even better: for a monthly fraction of what a single DVD would have cost me 10 years ago I can have unlimited streaming of movies directly to any wired or wireless room I enter. And I can read a Kindle book at lunchtime on a laptop somewhere, come home after work, pick up the Kindle and continue reading exactly where I left on the laptop at work. Could I do this with traditional media? Hardly, not at least without acquiring and carrying everywhere a bunch of bulky physical objects.
Will these help me getting over DRM limitations? I'm definitely thinking about it. After all, why should any of these perks come for free?
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