Julianna Yau’s blog

I’ll be getting back to my deconstruction of copyright next week. Here’s what’s been floating around the web and blogosphere in the past week…

While most discussions about copyright infringement and the internet is focused on users as infringers, Digital Copyright Canada picks up on the itWorldCanada article We’re not thieves. We just can’t read contracts (McAfee and Open Source). Monica Hesse of the Washington Post also writes about the topic, focusing on corporate misuse of copyrighted photos.

The Crave blog finds software that allows users to record free, unlimited MP3 audio with your cell phone and hardware to share content between iPods.

Both Michael Geist and Russell McOrmond pick up on the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s public letter to the Industry Minister and Canadian Heritage Minister on the impacts DMCA-style legislation has on privacy.

The Vancouver Sun also publishes an article arguing that reformed copyright laws shouldn’t suppress creativity.

Meanwhile, Howard Knopf picks up on another camcording bust.

And I’m still behind on my reading of some blogs I recently discovered:

• Northworthy
• ©ollectanea
• Scrutiny
• The Patry Copyright Blog

Between technical difficulties, a cold and life in general, I’m way behind on blog reading and writing. So rather than desperately trying to write several cohesive posts, I’m simply going to summarize some things of interest [to me].

After I returned my XO due to a defective keyboard (with hopes of getting one that works), I also ended up exchanging my Eee for another one because it had a warped spacebar. The new one also has a warped spacebar, but it’s not as bad. Neither had any performance issues, and the problem seems to be widespread.

jkkmobile and EeeUser.com are reporting that Asus is planning to make an Eee with a touchscreen.

Apple released the MacBook Air, and entrepreneurial laptop sleeves and minimalistic ones are already making their rounds in blogs, reminding me of the case I “made” for my Eee last week (798 views on Instructables as of the writing of this post!). So far, thinking of an uber-creative case for the XO has been quite daunting… and the OLPC laptop strap idea will be difficult to outwit.

Crave and BBC reports that NASA is thinking of creating a virtual world.

The MAKE blog has some articles about 3D printing:

• Kiosk – Sci-Fi tale of 3D printing, fabbing and more
• Fabaroni: a homemade 3D printer
• Sci-Fi objects and more made with a Spectrum Z510 3D printer (photo gallery)