{"id":1018,"date":"2008-07-11T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T14:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2008-07-11T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T14:26:12","slug":"friday-notes-full-circle-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/07\/11\/friday-notes-full-circle-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Notes: Full Circle Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/main.jhtml?xml=\/earth\/2008\/07\/08\/eavolcano108.xml\">this<\/a> in the Photos I Wish I&#8217;d Taken folder.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of photos, the kids over at BoingBoing are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/07\/10\/iranian-missile-phot.html\">having fun<\/a> with the Iranian missile &#8216;shop job (and surely I can&#8217;t be the only person who wondered if it was Cheney&#8217;s office doing the &#8216;shopping, there?).\u00c2\u00a0 My favorite is the &#8220;AT&amp;T More Bars in More Places&#8221; one.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Tim Wu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timwu.org\/log\/archives\/277\">wonders why<\/a> the answering machine was suppressed for 45 years:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s engineers had an answering machine invented by 1935.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 However it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t until 1980 or so that answering machines became widely available &#8211; why?<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/pss\/3106703\">great paper by Mark Clark<\/a> that I came across recentlt, internal memos show that Bell was afraid that if there existed recording devices, people would stop using telephones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Susan Crawford finds <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/scrawford.net\/blog\/1930-common-carriage\/1205\/\">a nifty bit of analysis<\/a> on what it means to be a common carrier.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a huge fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\">Creative Commons<\/a> project.\u00c2\u00a0 I release most of <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/blacknell\/sets\/\">my photos at Flickr<\/a> under a CC license (and lots of people and organizations have found use for them).\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re interested in contributing to a study of the Creative Commons license as it applies to photography, take a few minutes and <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/weblog\/entry\/8465\">complete this <\/a>survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this in the Photos I Wish I&#8217;d Taken folder. ~ Speaking of photos, the kids over at BoingBoing are having fun with the Iranian missile &#8216;shop job (and surely I can&#8217;t be the only person who wondered if it was Cheney&#8217;s office doing the &#8216;shopping, there?).\u00c2\u00a0 My favorite is the &#8220;AT&amp;T More Bars in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-law","category-society","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}