If everyone had kept quiet, it could have been the most valuable parking spot on earth. Convenient only to the careworn clothing stores clustered in the southern end of downtown Nogales, Ariz., it offered little to shoppers, and mile-long Union Pacific (UNP) trains sometimes cut it off from much of the city for 20 minutes at a time. But the location was perfect: In the middle of the short stretch of East International Street, overshadowed by the blank walls of quiet commercial property, the space was less than 50 feet from the international border with Mexico.
nirajc August 03, 2012 at 09:09AM
@nirajc: Said in a strip club: “When you’re rich, you want a Republican.” RT @politico Jenna Jameson rooting for Romney http://t.co/bIVzTihv
edithzimmerman August 03, 2012 at 09:09AM
@edithzimmerman: I learned a lot of new things to do with ice. RT @NYTmag: How Cosmo Conquered the World http://t.co/xs02ifU1
‘If America can do it to Manning, what will happen to my son?’ – Christine Assange — RT
Pay TV Subscriptions Increasing in 2012 – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD
Reuters says more than 400,000 Americans have dropped pay TV this year. So maybe cord-cutting is real, after all.But if it is, the numbers don’t show it.It’s easy to be confused about this stuff, but it’s also easy to clear it up: If you want to evaluate the state of the pay TV business, you have to include the results from the telco guys, who have been taking share from the cable and satellite guys. And you have to look at numbers for the whole year, not a single quarter.Once you do that, you end up with numbers that are basically flat, give or take a few thousand subscribers.
via Pay TV Subscriptions Increasing in 2012 – Peter Kafka – Media – AllThingsD.
Craig’s Big Bluff
Craigslist says it can use the classified ads written by its users as the basis for copyright lawsuits. The claim is a legal longshot at best and the latest act of aggression from a site once known for its idealism.
In case anyone missed, Craigslist last month sued PadMapper, a popular site that helps people find apartments by showing listings (including ones from Craigslist) on a map. This week, Craigslist clamped down further on potential rivals by changing its terms of services.
As reported by the blog Baligu, Craigslist has made the unusual decision of telling users it has an exclusive license to the copyright in their listings. In practical terms, this means that if you decide to sell your bike on Craigslist and another website picks up that listing, Craigslist can sue the other site.
The problem here is that Craiglist doesn’t have much of a legal leg to stand on. According to law professor Richard Gold, an intellectual property scholar at McGill University, it’s difficult to assert copyright over the simple facts in a classified ad:
“There are only a few ways to advertise a given object and copyright cannot be used to prevent the listing of the same object on another service. Since the wording of the ad will inevitably be very similar, the copyright protection would be thin.â€
Gold adds, “There are obviously anti-trust concerns here as well.â€
So why is Craigslist going on a limb with such a shaky legal claim? The best guess is that it’s a bluff intended to scare off other small companies that tap into its listing.
In the short term, the legal stick might frighten people into letting Craigslist keep tight control of its listings. But in the longer term, it seems certain to exacerbate the ill-will building up towards the site and its founder, Craig Newark (who today published a meditation about remaining serene in the face of online insults).
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A Fond Farewell to Robert Venturi, the Architect Who Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love Las Vegas
Where Was NBC When the Russian Gymnast Fell?
NBC did not show Russian gymnast Ksenia Afanasyeva falling during its prime-time coverage of women’s gymnastics on Tuesday, although the network had the time to do so.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://london2012.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/where-was-nbc-when-the-russian-gymnast-fell/
Watch the Red Band Trailer for Bachelorette
It’s like Bridesmaids, just without everyone except Rebel Wilson! Okay, that’s not fair.
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Bourne Again
How “The Bourne Legacy” plotted the handoff from Matt Damon to Jeremy Renner.
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