Month: August 2005

Bloggers Cautioned About Being Copy Cats

August 8, 2005 /

Thomas Smart, co-chair of the intellectual property and patent litigation group at Kaye Scholer explained that the courts ask four questions to determine if someone is making fair use of copyrighted material:

  • What is the nature or purpose of the use?
  • What is the nature of the work being copied?
  • How much of the work was copied?
  • How did the copying affect the market for the copyrighted work?

A must read for blog author's wanting to know guidelines on fair use. Read full article: Bloggers Cautioned About Being Copy Cats

InformationWeek on Getting Things Done

August 4, 2005 /

A nice article on GTD. I like the emphasis on breaking things into small achievable tasks, and focusing on the task at had while putting aside your master list: 

So you make your to-do list, and then you start on the first task. And here's a very important part--put the to-do list aside. When you work on one thing, just do that one thing. The other things are safely on your list.

For example, right now, I've got a million things to do today, and I'm pretty late with some of them. Doesn't matter. I'm not thinking about them. Right now, I'm writing this blog entry. I'll do the next thing I need to do when I'm done with this one. And I'm totally not thinking about that bug in the publishing system, because I'm swamped with work for the rest of the week, and then I'm on vacation. But that's OK. The bug'll still be on my to-do list when I'm back from vacation.

Read more: InformationWeek Weblog: Getting Things Done

Apple’s Mighty Mouse

August 2, 2005 /

mightymouse.jpgTake a look at Apple's latest invention. 360-degree scrolling. A great boon for graphic artists. Here's the description:

Meet the mouse that reinvented the wheel. The scroll wheel, that is. At $49, Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design. Click, roll, squeeze and scroll. This mouse just aced the maze.

Read more: Apple - Mighty Mouse