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Category Archives: Personal

On Copyright (pt 1)

27-Feb-09

There’s been a lot talked about copyright recently what it is, what it isn’t, and I want to use this post to examine what I think it is. A little potted history first. The idea of copyright arose initially in the 16th century with the advent of a new technology: the printing press. This was [...]

Hello world!

07-Oct-08

I blame two brown people for this blog: Mike Brown of Webstock, and Russell Brown of Public Address. Mike and I were talking in Sydney, back in 2005 after the Web Essentials 05 conference, and one of our takeaways was that all god’s chillun got a blog. And a Flickr account. Mike went on to [...]