The WELL: inkwell.vue.87: "Haven't had a raise since '65" - Writers Fight Back!

#79: Brian Slesinsky (bslesins) Wed 6 Jun 01 21:37

Wed, 06 Jun 2001 21:37:00 PDT

I'm not sure that meme is worth defending. [Read entire topic]

#78: Fawn Fitter (fsquared) Wed 6 Jun 01 15:01

Wed, 06 Jun 2001 15:01:00 PDT

I think people are misinterpreting the concept "information wants to be free." In this case, "free" doesn't mean "no cost," it just means "easily disseminated."

In other words, information wants to get around -- but it doesn't necessarily want to be given away... [Read entire topic]

#77: Angus MacDonald (angus) Fri 9 Mar 01 01:02

Fri, 09 Mar 2001 01:02:00 PST

I gotta say, I'm not sure any of the defendants except for the "40-year-old living with his parents in Red Bluff" are much at fault here. [Read entire topic]

#76: The music's played by the (madman) Thu 8 Mar 01 12:40

Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:40:00 PST

Someone mirrored it and provided a link in the slashdot thread. Here's one of the mirrors: http://www.bcgreen.com/~samuel/slash/kick.htm [Read entire topic]

#75: Angus MacDonald (angus) Thu 8 Mar 01 12:36

Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:36:00 PST

"503 Error : Traffic Level Exceeded

This web site has exceeded its traffic allowance.

Please try visiting this site again again at a lower traffic period, and/or contact the site maintainers and suggest that they increase their traffic threshold." [Read entire topic]

#74: Bob 'rab' Bickford (rab) Thu 8 Mar 01 11:05

Thu, 08 Mar 2001 11:05:00 PST

Uhm, this is news? I mean, I guess there are people who haven't heard about it before now, but really.... [Read entire topic]

#73: Gail Williams (gail) Thu 8 Mar 01 05:03

Thu, 08 Mar 2001 05:03:00 PST

Wow. That's something to see. And it references "information wants to be free," a slogan which, uh, got itself free. [Read entire topic]

#72: another goddamn latte-swilling caribou (mattrose) Wed 7 Mar 01 23:50

Wed, 07 Mar 2001 23:50:00 PST

I had to post this somewhere. Harlan Ellison is again spitting mad. This time it's at the wrong people... http://www.speculations.com/kick.htm the site's been slashdotted, see here http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/08/0159200 [Read entire topic]

#71: Neil Glazer (neil-glazer) Tue 7 Nov 00 11:44

Tue, 07 Nov 2000 11:44:00 PST

For those following the legal front, the Supreme Court granted certiorari this week to review the Tasini case. Which means at least four justices probably have some problem with the second circuit's decision upholding the rights of freelance writers. Of course, minds can be changed, but this is not a good development. [Read entire topic]

#70: Farai N. Chideya (zimby) Fri 3 Nov 00 15:09

Fri, 03 Nov 2000 15:09:00 PST

I have a separate lecture agent, and for the kinds of books I do, which sell well to the college/academic audience, I'm booked mainly to colleges, which tend to be steady (and rewarding, but exhuasting) work, but lower paying in general than corporate speeches. [Read entire topic]