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Musing about parodies and copyright and mashups

June 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Four pillars

One of my favourite parodies is  Ogden Nash’s Song Of the Open Road, a take on Joyce Kilmer’s Trees:
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I shall not see a tree at all. 
Amazingly, he wrote this in 1933. Even more amazingly, it is still copyright protected, thirty [...]

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21st century technology adoption curves and Facebook and innovation

June 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Four pillars

Everything changes. Now one of the changes that has intrigued me this past decade is in the nature of the technology adoption curve. Simply put, for most of my life, I was used to a particular adoption curve. In order to experiment with emerging technologies, you had to be 28-40, a high-achieving professional, working for [...]

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