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live from #apollo: act 3

By rachel ⋅ January 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Act 3: Like now Twitter people
When we went out into the lobby for the first intermission, #apollo was the number one trending term on Twitter. I have to admit, that was a heady feeling. I also found out that i knew a couple of the other twitter people through mutual friends - a fact they [...]

copyright driveby

By rachel ⋅ January 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Lots of chatter out there about music licensing costs on 80 year old music basically destroying the commercial prospects of the independent film Sita Sings The Blues. Interesting stuff, it’s always good to have these real-life examples of the deleterious effects of copyright maximalism. This one might be a particularly interesting one to keep [...]

resolved

By rachel ⋅ January 8, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

when we started command-f, i had this unspoken promise to myself that i’d never post anything new until i’d read, pondered, and (ideally) responded to prior posts from anne-marie and caleb. well, consider this a broken promise. i read but haven’t yet pondered caleb’s last couple posts and i haven’t even read anne-marie’s post from [...]

why i’m not discouraged: on greatness

By rachel ⋅ November 6, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

Okay, so I had a version of this post all ready to go for a while. It was entitled “why i’m discouraged part 3″. But, I’m really not discouraged anymore. In fact, I’m pretty much the opposite of discouraged. I feel energized to a degree that actually kind of shocks me.
So here’s some of what [...]

“Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.”

By rachel ⋅ November 1, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I don’t have many heroes and I lost one yesterday when Studs Terkel died. Good-bye Studs, who will tell our stories now?

why i’m discouraged, part 2: the customer is always right

By rachel ⋅ October 28, 2008 ⋅ 8 comments

first, a confession: I’m not actually that discouraged anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I still have some significant but low-level anxiety and I’m still intellectually upset about all the stuff I was upset about before but i’m not feeling that deep, soul-shaking discouragement that I was before. which is good but it’s made it hard [...]

why i’m discouraged, part 1: on “balance”

By rachel ⋅ October 1, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

I’m kind of a relentless optimist. I was asked in the interview for my current job to describe myself in 5 words: “optimistic” was the only one that came easily. One quality optimists tend to have is the ability to take the long view, to believe that things have been better before and they’ll be [...]

tinfoil hats and snake oil (or: if i was a librarian how would i search)

By rachel ⋅ September 1, 2008 ⋅ 7 comments

Recently I was looking at some of the searches that had brought visitors to ⌘f and noticed “if i was a librarian how would i search” was among them. this kind of clicked with something that’s been rattling around my head the last few days about a couple of personal search experiences I’ve had [...]

depressing: bill patry stops blogging

By rachel ⋅ August 4, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

William Patry’s announced on friday that he would be ending his blog; breaking my heart into tiny little pieces. In the public discourse about copyright issues in the US, Patry’s voice has always been one of the clearest, most reasoned, erudite, passionate, and scholarly. Whenever some copyright related issue has come up that I haven’t [...]

more about music

By rachel ⋅ July 7, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

at the risk of becoming ⌘-f’s arts and entertainment writer, i’m going to talk a bit more about music today. first, a story:
i have a friend who is a well-known musician, Kristin Hersh. i was riding in her minivan with her, her husband Billy, and two of her sons then aged about 4 [...]

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