{"id":533,"date":"2004-12-20T03:41:41","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T07:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=533"},"modified":"2007-07-31T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T12:30:21","slug":"blogging-and-suprnova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"blogging and suprnova"},"content":{"rendered":"

so adam<\/a> recently asked me why i don’t update my blog more often<\/p>\n

it’s a good question<\/p>\n

i think it’s a combination of the fact that few people read it, there’s too much spam on it, and that i don’t know what to say<\/p>\n

of course, most people who know me know that i have plenty to say<\/p>\n

i suppose when i started the blog it was because it was a cool thing to do and because i needed a place to rant<\/p>\n

the latter role has been taken up more and more by friends, with whom i engage in discussion and to whom i make long-winded rants (mostly on msn)<\/p>\n

that is, just a couple of people, mostly sanjeyan (when he’s on this plane of existence) and yaser<\/a><\/p>\n

having said that, i will copy here a post i made on a message board about the loss of suprnova.org:<\/p>\n

i am shocked and dismayed at the news of suprnova going down <\/p>\n

there is really little any of us can say that could sum up this loss <\/p>\n

it was suprnova that gave us the bittorrent outlet — it took us in after kazaa and p2p became slow and onerous <\/p>\n

it was suprnova that gave us our first comics and introduced us to z-cult <\/p>\n

it was suprnova that embodied many of our hopes and dreams of a free planet ruled by the people and not the corporations <\/p>\n

alas, another blow, but “we must go forward, not backward, upward, not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom” (simpsons) <\/p>\n

amen<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(z-cult<\/a> is a comics bittorrent community)<\/p>\n

the mpaa and riaa have been going after bittorrent sites now that they’ve taken care of kazaa and other p2p networks<\/p>\n

they simply don’t understand that they can’t stop the revolution<\/p>\n

something funny that the mpaa’s director of “antipiracy” operations, john malcolm, said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

These people are parasites, leeching off the creative activity of others…<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

for a second there i thought he was talking about the bloated corporations that garner insane profits from motion pictures and record sales, the ones that stunt creativity and undermine independent creators<\/p>\n

i guess he didn’t see the irony of his statement<\/p>\n

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so adam recently asked me why i don’t update my blog more often it’s a good question i think it’s a combination of the fact that few people read it, there’s too much spam on it, and that i don’t know what to say of course, most people who know me know that i have […]<\/p>\n

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