Needlebase: Chilling Effects

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What is it?
The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse is a huge database of copyright cease and desist notices submitted for your viewing pleasure and maintained by a number high profile academic institutions.

Why is this interesting?
Because it's a huge mess. This is the same problem they ran into with Dollars for Docs – multiple sources, different formats, lots of names with slight variation and not enough eyeballs working to clean it up (I make it sound so easy! hah). Needle's de-duplication functionality works really well in this instance.

Where is it going in the future?
I just stared working on this domain so it's a little early to tell – whatever insight that can be gleaned from this database will eventually make its way into a publication of some sort. You know, with all that free time I have : \

Proof of concept? aka The Pirate Bay torrent's itself

http://torrentfreak.com/download-a-copy-of-the-pirate-bay-before-its-gone-090816/

Fantastic news for the patrons of illegal libraries.

Today is good day

http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/02/25/open-access-policies-threatened-by-copyright-bill/


Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things...

Just watched a great doc.

GOOD COPY BAD COPY
"a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture"

Oooh and I saw it on Free Culture TV so you'll have to download Miro (or do a google search)

:P

Here there be self promotion

A new blog-o-mine. I'm thinking an Art Nouveau inspired design for this one.

RE: my last post

Further proof Copyright is shooting itself in the foot:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/if-ap-is-right.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/17/associated-press-exp.html


Oh well, at least the music is still working.

Rumors of my Eventual Website

In the spirit of WWDC 2008 today, I thought today would be a good time to divulge some top-secret info about my website in the works.

I'm still working on the coding, but now that I have received word from Dr. Kitaoka and his publisher around use of a figure I'm able to move on from the design phase!

Here's a low-res sample:


I think it's pretty cool :D