Avoiding linguistic self-toxification, copyright term, e-democracy, smear campaign outsourcing is go! …

• 1 – 7 Warning Signs That You’re Drunk on Your Own Words

  “When you’re writing, you can put yourself into the same state. Like a brewer drinking your own product, you can intoxicate yourself during the act of creation.”

  (tags: tips advice copywriting writing)

• 2 – How long should copyright last?

  “It is curious that there is so much pressure to extend copyright in an internet age defined by the willingness to share knowledge freely. [...] The reason? Producer lobbies are far more powerful than difficult-to-organise consumer ones.”

  (tags: term extension law IP copyright UK)

• 3 – Even The First Copyright ‘Pirates’ Didn’t Do Much Harm

  “[Pirates was used] to describe people who had copied a poem by Daniel Defoe [...] in order to sell it themselves. The most interesting part: Defoe actually learned how to take advantage of the situation, rather than whining about it.”

  (tags: model business publicity obscurity copyright IP piracy)

• 4 – Michael Cross on e-democracy

  “If Downing Street, the most micromanaged corner of government, can publish a few dotty petitions, then Parliament, the uniquely privileged home of free speech, should be proportionately more relaxed.”

  (tags: politics e-democracy petitions website goverment UK)

• 5 – Democrats Supply Video, You Make the Ad

  “The party hopes that thousands of eyes might find something the mainstream media has missed, or that a new way of juxtaposing the video with something else will be revealing about the candidates.” This will get messy.

  (tags: video internet Democrat crowdsourcing campaign politics US)