Amanda Mooney posted a note about being told she needed corporate permission to take a picture in a store. Mooney’s interest was in telling others how much she likes the products and the brand — exactly the sort of word of mouth advertising most brands are anxious for, but imagine some more pedestrian uses: what [...]
Posted August 18, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: corporate, photography, police state, retail, rules, security, social communication, terrorism. One Comment.
Will, Jon, Joe, Ted, and I arrived at Telos Landing with plans to run the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. As we prepared to embark, the park ranger appeared with a tape measure and told us our kayaks weren’t canoes.
Section 2.3 of the Allagash rules and regulations is quite clear: “A canoe is defined as a form [...]
Posted August 20, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Travel. Tags: Allagash, Allagash Wilderness Waterway, canoe, canoeing, kayak, kayaking, maine, mancation, regulations, river, rules, vacation. 2 Comments.
[]Web 2.0 has matured to the point where even those who endorse the moniker are beginning to cringe at its use. Still, it gave me pause the other day when Cliff (a sysop) began a sentence with “Web 2.0 standards require….â€
Web 2.0 is now coherent enough to have standards? We used to joke about rounded [...]
Posted June 20, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: open source, remixability, rules, social software, web 2.0, web applications, well behaved. 2 Comments.
I wasn’t really paying attention in June when WiFi Net News reported on a FCC decision regarding control of WiFi:
The FCC says landlords, associations can’t regulate Part 15 use: The FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology says that the function of regulating and coordinating frequency use is reserved to the FCC itself. It’s a clear [...]
Posted November 17, 2004 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: fcc, frequency allocation, regulation, rules, spectrum, University of Texas, unlicensed spectrum, wifi. 7 Comments.