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	<title>Did I Say That? &#187; The Internet</title>
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		<title>Exposing YouTube&#039;s Shortlink with Greasemonkey</title>
		<link>http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2010/06/21/exposing-youtubes-shortlink-with-greasemonkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evil Nickname</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I'm a geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greasemonkey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evilnickname.org/?p=2347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was surprised to find that YouTube does not promote its youtu.be shortlinks prominently on the video pages. Sure, it's trivial enough to transform the regular url (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ujmb3jQAJE) into its shorter counterpart (http://youtu.be/7Ujmb3jQAJE), but let's face it, we're all a bunch of lazy sobs. To cut a long story short, I pieced together [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week, I was surprised to find that YouTube does not promote its youtu.be shortlinks prominently on the video pages. Sure, it's trivial enough to transform the regular url (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ujmb3jQAJE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ujmb3jQAJE</a>) into its shorter counterpart (<a href="http://youtu.be/7Ujmb3jQAJE">http://youtu.be/7Ujmb3jQAJE</a>), but let's face it, we're all a bunch of lazy sobs.</p>
<p>To cut a long story short, I pieced together a <a href="http://www.greasespot.net/">Greasemonkey</a> userscript called 'Youtu.be Shortlink' that (surprisingly) adds the youtu.be link to the page, in the bar just above the video:</p>
<p><a id="shortlink" href="http://www.evilnickname.org/files/code/GM/youtube_shortlink.user.js">youtube_shortlink.user.js</a></p>
<p>There are 3 options which you can set by editing the script and changing the value of the <code>setting</code> variable. (Since you're still reading this you probably know how this works, but just in case: right click the Greasemonkey icon > Manage User Scripts... > select 'Youtu.be Shortlink' > Edit.) These options are:</p>
<ol>
<li> Just the shortlink (default);</li>
<li> A button that sends the shortlink to Twitter;</li>
<li> A button that sends the video's title and shortlink to Twitter.</li>
</ol>
<p>If this userscript works as good for you as it does for me, you might also enjoy one of <a href="http://www.evilnickname.org/projects/#greasemonkey">my other Greasemonkey userscripts</a>.</p>
<p class="update note">Update 2010-06-24: Youtube has now added as short link switch in under the url-box in their 'share panel, rendering this userscript a tiny bit superfluous.</p>
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		<title>Wallpaper</title>
		<link>http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2010/06/10/wallpaper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evil Nickname</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I'm a geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[complaining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evilnickname.org/?p=2315</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Google added a background image to their search page. And since a lot of people really seem to dislike things that change, a lot of people started to complain about this new 'wallpaper' feature. All of a sudden, Google isn't white enough, looks too much like Bing, loads too slow, and blah blah blah. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today Google added a background image to their search page. And since a lot of people really seem to dislike things that change, a lot of people started to complain about this new 'wallpaper' feature. All of a sudden, Google isn't white enough, looks too much like Bing, loads too slow, and blah blah blah.</p>
<p>I don't get it. And I don't even see how anyone could get worked up about this.</p>
<p>The only time you get see those backgrounds is when you navigate to Google's home page. And who does that anyway? Every browser has a search feature build in, which takes you straight to the search results. And those pages remain as white as ever.</p>
<p>So, c'mon. Explain this 'problem' to me like I'm a six year old.</p>
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		<title>Let It Be</title>
		<link>http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2010/06/07/let-it-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evil Nickname</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I'm a geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Internet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a question in my mailbox about the where and when of Meat Loaf's cover of "Let It Be." According to the liner notes of the "Not a Dry Eye in the House" single, it was recorded for ABC's Nightline. But as anyone who knows how to string a few keywords together would have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There was a question in my mailbox about the where and when of Meat Loaf's cover of "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZt0aWNy4k">Let It Be</a>." According to the liner notes of the "<a href="http://mljs.evilnickname.org/meatloaf/singles/notadryeyeinthehouse.html">Not a Dry Eye in the House</a>" single, it was recorded for ABC's Nightline. But as anyone who knows how to string a few keywords together would have found that out sooner or later, I started to dig deeper. I didn't find much: apparently, Nightline had a Beatles tribute in 1995, and mr. Loaf played at least two songs ("Let It Be" and "Come Together"). </p>
<p>And then there was this other thing I found.</p>
<p>Whatever permutation of the keywords "Meat Loaf Nightline Beatles 1995" I <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=1995+Nightline+Beatles+tribute+meat+loaf">fed to Google</a>, numerous sites popped up showing roughly the same excerpts about Brian Wilson saying the same thing too on a 1995 Nightline Beatles tribute.</p>
<p>Apparently, someone likes the Beatles so much that he or she copies (roughly) the same reply over and over and over again on various websites where people confess that they don't unquestioningly adore the Beatles. (Disclaimer: I don't get the Beatles. I recognize that they were a very important band, but their music does next to nothing for me. I mean, <q>Na na nana na, hey Jude, na na na nana</q>? <em>Yougottabefuckinkiddingme</em>!)</p>
<p>I find this fascinating. And this, and nothing less&#8230; <em>THIS</em> is why I love the internet.</p>
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		<title>Thoughts on Open</title>
		<link>http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2010/04/29/thoughts-on-open/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evil Nickname</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I'm a geek]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[html5]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pissing off the apple-fanboys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evilnickname.org/?p=2266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, just issued some thoughts on Flash, detailing why Apple won't support it on their iPhones and -Pads. They'll probably have some valid points there, but as I don't own or plan to own any of those products, I don't really care. Still, there's one bone I have to pick with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, just issued some <a href="http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/">thoughts on Flash</a>, detailing why Apple won't support it on their iPhones and -Pads. They'll probably have some valid points there, but as I don't own or plan to own any of those products, I don't really care.</p>
<p>Still, there's one bone I have to pick with his epistle. In response to Adobe's claim that Flash is open and Apple distributes a closed system, Jobs says,</p>
<blockquote><p>Apple has many proprietary products too. Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open. Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. [&#8230;] HTML5 is completely open and controlled by a standards committee, of which Apple is a member.</p></blockquote>
<p>Anyone following what's going on with HTML5 will see the <a href="http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2010/04/06/ready-schmeady/">elephant in the room</a>, and Jobs mentions it a bit further on: <q>Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot access “the full web” because 75% of video on the web is in Flash. What they don’t say is that almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads.</q></p>
<p>And there you have it. First, Jobs says that Apple <q>strongly believe[s] that all standards pertaining to the web should be open</q> but then he won't say that the only video-format that his company's browser will support is the closed source, proprietary H.264 format. Which makes that bit about strongly believing in the open web sound a bit, well, phony.</p>
<p>So, ehm, mr. Jobs: either put your money where your mouth is and start supporting open video in Webkit, or just <abbr title="shut the fuck up">STFU</abbr>, 'kay?</p>
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		<title>Ready, Schmeady</title>
		<link>http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2010/04/06/ready-schmeady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evil Nickname</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I'm a geek]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you have been living under a rock: Apple has just released the iPod Touch XXL iPad. The device itself doesn't interest me much, so I'd like to talk about related subject: Apple's official list of "iPad-ready websites." While Apple is being vague what "iPad-ready" really means, from the language on the page and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In case you have been living under a rock: Apple has just released the <del>iPod Touch XXL</del> <a href="http://kottke.org/10/04/lorem-ipad">iPad</a>. The device itself doesn't interest me much, so I'd like to talk about related subject: Apple's <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/ready-for-ipad/">official list</a> of "iPad-ready websites."</p>
<p>While Apple is being vague what "iPad-ready" really means, from the language on the page and the accompanying <a href="http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/technotes/tn2010/tn2262.html">Technical Note</a> one can infer that a website that uses the latest web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, javascript,etc.) and no plug-ins (most notably, Flash, as Apple refuses to allow those on their iPad en -Pods) should be ready. Which is all fine and dandy. No problem there.</p>
<p>Today, the leading news site of the Dutch public television announced that their website was now "iPad-ready". By which they probably mean, "In certain cases, after some browser sniffing, we serve a page with an HTML5 <code>&lt;video&gt;</code> element instead of the default Flash-player." Now that kinda, sorta worries me.</p>
<p>You see, I don't think that HTML5 video is quite ready for general use on the world wide web. Reason the first: so far, no version of Internet Explorer can handle it. And reason the second: at the moment, you need at least two versions of the same clip to make it work in every other browser, due to, well, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#Supported_video_formats">video-format war</a>. If you can't be bothered to produced two versions of the same clip, you need to jump through all kinds of technical hoops to provide your content to the browsers that do not support the format you decided on. Not quite the 'code once, work everywhere' utopia we have been promised.</p>
<p>So, if you think that making your website "iPad-ready" means that you need to use the <code>&lt;video&gt;</code> element to serve MPEG-encoded video, well, you clearly have a lot to learn about the open web.</p>
<p>(Of course, it's quite easy to envision a scenario where Apple is using the iPad/iPod to manipulate the browser market into adopting MPEG as the de facto standard for web video because, well, everybody knows that everything Apple does has the potential to be the cure for cancer and can bring about world peace. But I'm neither a Apple fanboy nor a tinfoil hat wearing, paranoid conspiracy theorist, so I won't go there.)</p>
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		<title>Gimme Some Words I Can Live By</title>
		<link>http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2009/12/03/gimme-some-words-i-can-live-by/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evil Nickname</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meme Time]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I've done this one before. Only this time I didn't need no website to find some quotes. If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain, from a 1894 notebook. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, so I've <a href="http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/files/archive/2006_08_01_archive.html#p20060822">done this one before</a>. Only this time I didn't need no website to find some quotes.</p>
<ul>
<li> <q>If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.</q> Mark Twain, from a 1894 notebook.</li>
<li> <q><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuFvx7vN_pU">You are not</a> a beautiful and unique snowflake.  You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.</q> Chuck Palahniuk, <cite>Fight Club</cite></li>
<li> <q>Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.</q> Bruce Springsteen, introduction to "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwXchBb9tRQ">War</a>"</li>
<li> <q lang="nl-dr" title="Fear is only for a little while, regret lasts forever"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh8CVVWAOHo">Angst is mar veur eben, spiet is veur altied.</a></q> Daniël Lohues</li>
<li> <q>Don't let your dreams get all rusty / Keep on using 'em as hard as you can</q> Jim Steinman, "<a href="http://mljs.evilnickname.org/jimsteinman/songs/everlybrothers-akissisaterriblethingtowaste.html">A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing To Waste</a>"</li>
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		<title>Fixing Last.fm&#039;s library with Greasemonkey</title>
		<link>http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2009/10/15/fixing-last-fms-library-with-greasemonkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evil Nickname</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I love all the data my Last.fm library, I was missing something. To be precise, easy access from song and album pages in your library to the corresponding artist page in your library. Also, while there is a link to the site-wide artist pages, there is no link to the side-wide album pages. So [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I love all the data <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/EvilNickname/library">my Last.fm library</a>, I was missing something. To be precise, easy access from <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/EvilNickname/library/music/Jim+Steinman/_/%2528Vespers%2529%2BThe%2BSong%2Bof%2BGotham%2BCity%2B%252F%2BThe%2BGraveyard%2BShift">song</a> and <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/EvilNickname/library/music/Dusty+Springfield/Simply...+Dusty">album pages</a> in your library to the corresponding artist page <em>in your library</em>. Also, while there is a link to the site-wide artist pages, there is no link to the side-wide album pages.</p>
<p>So I hacked together a <a href="http://www.greasespot.net/">Greasemonkey</a> user script that does three things:</p>
<ol>
<li>It adds a 'go to this artists's page in your library' link to album and song pages;</li>
<li>It adds a 'go to this album's page' link to album pages; and</li>
<li>It removes the 'remove this artist from your library' option.</li>
</ol>
<p>If this sounds too vague for you, you might not need it. Otherwise, you can install the user script by hitting the link below. </p>
<p>⇒ <a href="http://www.evilnickname.org/files/code/GM/lastfm_library_tweaks.user.js">lastfm_library_tweaks.user.js</a></p>
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		<title>Bumafaal faalt</title>
		<link>http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2009/10/09/bumafaal-faalt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evil Nickname</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dutch only]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I'm a geek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buma / Stemra [heeft] op 1 oktober jl. haar tarieven voor 2010 gepubliceerd voor gebruik van muziek op het internet. Onderdeel daarvan was het tarief voor niet-bedrijfsmatig muziekgebruik door middel van zgn. embedded files. Dit onderdeel van het tarief heeft tot grote commotie geleid bij een breed publiek en in de volksvertegenwoordiging. Deze commotie heeft [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.bumastemra.nl/nl-NL/OverBumaStemra/Actueel/BS+komt+internetgebruikers+tegemoet.htm">Buma / Stemra</a> [heeft] op 1 oktober jl. haar tarieven voor 2010 gepubliceerd voor gebruik van muziek op het internet. Onderdeel daarvan was het tarief voor niet-bedrijfsmatig muziekgebruik door middel van zgn. embedded files. Dit onderdeel van het tarief heeft tot grote commotie geleid bij een breed publiek en in de volksvertegenwoordiging.<br />
Deze commotie heeft Buma / Stemra niet onberoerd gelaten. Buma / Stemra heeft na overleg binnen haar branche organisatie, VOICE, besloten om het tarief voor niet-bedrijfsmatig gebruik van muziek in embedded files niet ten uitvoer te brengen (zoals particuliere profielen op sociale netwerken).</p></blockquote>
<p>Zie je wel dat <a href="http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2009/10/06/bumafaal/">stennisschoppen op het internet</a> zin heeft: de bumatax voor particuliere webloggers is van de baan. Digitale Burgerrechten stijdfront <a href="http://www.bof.nl/persbericht091009.html">Bits of Freedom merkt terecht op</a> dat er op het heugelijke nieuws genoeg af te dingen valt:</p>
<blockquote><p>Ten eerste is de vraag of voor embedden überhaupt een vergoeding kan worden gevraagd. Buma negeert deze vraag, door aan te geven dat zij bedrijfsmatig embedden wel zal belasten. Ten tweede is de vraag wat als bedrijfsmatig moet worden aangemerkt: is iemand die een blog met advertenties publiceert, ook bedrijfsmatig actief? Ook is het opvallend dat Buma in het geheel niets zegt over de belangen van de internetgebruiker en de kleine Nederlandse muzikant, en hoe aan die belangen tegemoet wordt gekomen.</p></blockquote>
<p>Maar goed. Dit is een stap de goede kant op, en een opening om het hele systeem open te breken.</p>
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		<title>Bumafaal</title>
		<link>http://www.evilnickname.org/weblog/2009/10/06/bumafaal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evil Nickname</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stel, je hebt een profiel op Hyves en je wilt aan de wereld meedelen hoe onwijs keivetgaaf de nieuwe superhit van Zanger Rinus is. Want echt, "Hey Marlous", dat is de bom. Wat doe je dan? Juist. Je tikt een stukje aan elkaar, je gaat naar Youtube, pakt de embed-code, en plakt die onder je [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stel, je hebt een profiel op Hyves en je wilt aan de wereld meedelen hoe onwijs keivetgaaf de nieuwe superhit van Zanger Rinus is. Want echt, "Hey Marlous", dat is de bom. Wat doe je dan?</p>
<p>Juist. Je tikt een stukje aan elkaar, je gaat naar Youtube, pakt de embed-code, en plakt die onder je verhaaltje. Zoiets dus:</p>
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<p>Niks aan het handje toch? </p>
<p>Vooralsnog niet nee. Maar daar komt per 1 januari 2010 verandering in. Buma/Stemra—<q>de belangenbehartiger van muziekauteurs in Nederland</q> die met <del>het geïnde geld</del> andermans geld <a href="http://tweakers.net/nieuws/60349/buma-stemra-keert-minder-auteursrecht-uit-na-beursverliezen.html">op de beurs speelt</a> en sowieso niet bekend staat voor het <a href="http://www.geenstijl.nl/archives/images/FDbuma.html">tijdig uitbetalen</a>—gaat onder het motto "als er muziek in zit moet je bij ons een licentie kopen" geld innen. Een Youtube filmpje op je weblog plaatsen gaat je zo'n 20 euro kosten.</p>
<p>Toen vorige week <a href="http://3voor12.vpro.nl/artikelen/artikel/42556997">die plannen</a> bekend werden gemaakt waren de reacties niet van de lucht. Vanmiddag was er <a href="http://3voor12.vpro.nl/artikelen/artikel/42581082">een persconferentie</a> waar Buma hun <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/20711814/Brochure-Digitale-Muzieklicenties-2010-bumastemra">tarievenstelsel</a> toelichtte, en die heeft weinig gedaan om de kritiek te doen verstommen. Integendeel.</p>
<p>Laat ik vooropstellen dat het alleszins redelijk is dat componisten en uitvoerenden een vergoeding krijgen voor hun werk. Dat het Auteurswet 1912 in mijn optiek volledig stuk is en grondig moet worden herzien is een hele andere discussie, die veel (internationale) haken en ogen heeft. Maar daar gaat het ook in deze niet om. Waar het wel omgaat is dat het Buma-beleid waarin particuliere prutsers met een weblog moeten betalen voor een Youtube filmpje van geen kanten deugt.</p>
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<li> Er word compleet voorbij gegaan aan de promotionele functie van zo'n filmpje. Als een bandje echt niet wil dat ik een filmpje van hun officiele Youtubekanaal haal en op mijn website zet, dan moeten ze zelf de embed-optie uit zetten. Want dat kan gewoon. Als zij al die gratis reclame voor hun muziek niet willen, dan doe ik dat niet. Hoewel dat mijn enthousiasme voor dat bandje dan weer niet ten goede komt, maar dat is dan hun probleem, toch?</li>
<li> Natuurlijk, je hoeft een filmpje niet te embedden. Je kan inderdaad ook gewoon <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLoQJVajLXI&#038;fmt=">naar Youtube linken</a>. Maar komopnouzeghee, dat is wel heel erg niet hoe het internet en het webloggen anno 2009 werkt.</li>
<li> Vervolgens is het <a href="http://blog.iusmentis.com/2008/02/07/bumastemra-treedt-op-tegen-embedded-muziekfilmpjes/">ronduit twijfelachtig</a> of het embedden van een filmpje een nieuwe openbaarmaking is zoals in de Auteurswet bedoeld word. Technisch gezien is komt het veel dichter in de buurt van een link, en dat is zeer zeker geen inbreuk op de auteursrechten.</li>
<li> En dat Buma terug komt op een <a href="http://tweakers.net/nieuws/51756/buma-stemra-geen-offensief-tegen-weblogs-die-video-embedden.html">eerder gedane toezegging</a> dat particuliere weblogs buiten schot zouden blijven—dat er met platforms als Hyves en web-logs.nl en Youtube zelf onderhandeld wordt om de eindgebruiker buiten schot te houden doet daar niets aan af—verdient ook niet echt de schoonheidsprijs.</li>
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<p>(Zie trouwens ook <a href="http://www.bof.nl/briefbuma061009.pdf">de open brief van Bits of Freedom</a> (pdf!), die eht bovenstaande lijstje veel beter verwoord.)</p>
<p>Het laatste woord is hier zeker nog niet over gezegd. Maar vooralsnog, kort samengevat: ja, auteurs en uitvoerende verdienen een vergoeding, maar het systeem is stuk en dit suffe plan anno 1998 van Buma draagt niet bij aan een oplossing.</p>
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		<title>Nog een rondje tweets</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sinds mijn vorige vergelijkbare lijstje is mijn Twitter-gebruik gexplodeerd. Hier zijn 10 tweets die wat extra aan dacht verdienen. Als mijn mening je niet aanstaat, vraag er dan niet om. 9:37 AM Jul 30th EO gaat toch geen Jezus-cabaret maken. Stelletje ruggegraatloze windvaantjes. http://tinyurl.com/lkyvnd 4:37 PM Aug 3rd En dan ben je risotto aan het [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sinds mijn vorige vergelijkbare lijstje is mijn Twitter-gebruik gexplodeerd. Hier zijn 10 tweets die wat extra aan dacht verdienen.</p>
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<li>Als mijn mening je niet aanstaat, vraag er dan niet om. <a href="http://twitter.com/evilnickname/status/2926515564">9:37 AM Jul 30th</a>
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<li>EO gaat toch geen Jezus-cabaret maken. Stelletje ruggegraatloze windvaantjes. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/lkyvnd" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/lkyvnd</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/evilnickname/status/3104976607">4:37 PM Aug 3rd</a>
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<li>En dan ben je risotto aan het maken, en dan is die fles wijn toch open … vervelende toestand zo. <a href="http://twitter.com/evilnickname/status/3209488508">6:21 PM Aug 9th</a>
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<li>LOL^2 wat betreft de "Philip Freriks ik ben je bitch niet" video van @<a class="tweet-url username" href="http://www.evilnickname.org/MdaSilvaTrio">MdaSilvaTrio</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/4CK69" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/4CK69</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/evilnickname/status/3282188202">9:00 AM Aug 13th</a> *
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<li>Kijk: deze info zou op <a href="http://www.ov-chipkaart.nl" rel="nofollow">www.ov-chipkaart.nl</a> moeten staan, en niet op een private wiki. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/knx54f" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/knx54f</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/evilnickname/status/3303532202">9:03 AM Aug 14th</a>
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<li>Iemand met een ambulance laten afvoeren (gapend gat in scheenbeen na aanvaring met scheerlijn) is toch een domper op de feestvreugde. <a href="http://twitter.com/evilnickname/status/3412698137">>10:46 PM Aug 19th</a>
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<li>Zo werkt dat dus: "Ze zijn intelligent, beredeneren dat dingen niet kloppen en komen niet meer in de kerk." <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ntodrv" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/ntodrv</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/evilnickname/status/3423982460">10:26 AM Aug 20th</a>
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<li>Dit. Precies dit, altijd dit, en nooit en nimmer iets anders. <a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23computerexpert">#computerexpert</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23flowchart" >#flowchart</a> <a href="http://xkcd.com/627/">http://xkcd.com/627/</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/evilnickname/status/3508158366">8:43 AM Aug 24th</a>
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<li>Zap net langs Family7 waar ze bij een kind astma weg bidden. DAT WERKT NIET, FLAPDROL! Echt, neem iemand van je eigen leeftijd in de maling. <a href="http://twitter.com/evilnickname/status/3622385085">10:58 AM Aug 29th</a>
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<li>Words of wisdom: "If the reader is ignorant or has bad taste, it's not your fault." <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mpdbmu" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/mpdbmu</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/evilnickname/status/3665283274"><span class="published timestamp" data="{time:'Mon Aug 31 13:24:26 +0000 2009'}">3:24 PM Aug 31st</span></a>
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<p>* Update: <a href="http://www.monicadasilvatrio.nl/?e=21">MP3tje nu online</a>.</p>
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