Rad Geek People's Daily 2009-11-23

Monday Lazy Linking (posted 23 November 2009, 3pm)

Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 15 years ago, in 2009, on the World Wide Web.

Do Music Artists Fare Better in a World With Illegal File-Sharing? John Gruber, Daring Fireball (2009-11-13). Fascinating data assembled by The Times Online, indicating that music artists are making more money in the post-file-sharing era than before, because of a big jump in live performance revenue. The only group that is making less revenue is the record labels. (Terrible choices on the chart colors, though. Almost… (Linked Friday 2009-11-20.)
Indie iPhone Developers Band Against Jackass Tim Langdell's !!!@@e2;20ac;2dc;Edge' Trademark Claims. Daring Fireball (2009-11-20). One, two, many EDGEs. Of course, if the developers wanted to be “pragmatic,” they could drop a few million on lobbying for trademark reform, hire an IP lawyer at $900/hr and spend the next several years of their lives meeting with legislators and filing motions in court.

Direct action gets the goods. (Linked Friday 2009-11-20.)
!!!@@e2;2dc;2026; The OS Opportunity. John Gruber, Daring Fireball (2009-11-18). A few weeks ago, in a piece here titled "Herd Mentality", I argued that PC makers who want to succeed should create their own OSes: It's not just that Apple is different among computer makers. It's that Apple is the only one that even can be different, because it's the… (Linked Friday 2009-11-20.)