Sunday, March 13, 2005

> Aaron Swartz: Today, news organizations across the country have decided to honor a “Sunshine Sunday” by running stories “in support of public access to government information”. The student activist group FreeCulture.org is running a concurrent “Blogshine Sunday” to preserve the rights of all citizens to government information...
[Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]   4:47:07 PM  Link    
> Wes Felter: I have to sort of admire the way Bram Cohen's fame just keeps increasing despite the fact that he totally dodges about half the questions in interviews. This morning he informed us that the media distribution business is just going to go away, then the telcos are going away right after that. Bram is sure that new business models for media will emerge, but he doesn't know or care what they are, since he doesn't watch TV.
[Hack the Planet]   3:21:39 PM  Link    
> Glenn Fleishman: I'm at the South by Southwest interactive conference (SXSWi) and just went to my first session with Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent. Unfortunately, Bram has very little joy in his life, as a colleague remarked to me after the session was over. He speaks in an affectless voice, offers terse and often somewhat offensive replies to many questions, and doesn't seem to have much interest in anything but certain aspects of network programming...
[GlennLog]   3:19:27 PM  Link