While Apple may not come out and say it has no interest in supporting Adobe's Flash, its actions speak louder than words.

Via Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(B)log Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. Pictures and works quoted may be subject to other parties’ copyrights. —- Stewart v. Rolling Stone LLC, — Cal.Rptr.3d —-, 2010 WL 317016 (Cal.App. 1 Dist.) Fascinating case! Indie rock musicians from the bands Xiu Xiu and Fucked Up sued to represent a class of over 100 bands who all appeared in an editorial feature, “Indie Rock Universe,” in the November 15, 2007 issue of Rolling Stone. The feature is a four-page foldout described as a “butterfly gatefold,” which has four ad pages and five editorial pages. It begins with an ad on the left. Then there’s a page of editorial copy on the right. When the page is turned, two pages of ads appear as a “gate,” which can be opened like French doors. Then the four-page remainder of the editorial feature appears; if you are looking at all four pages of the editorial at once, the ads are not visible. The feature here, which was listed along with two other similar features in the magazine’s table of contents, had “hand-drawn cartoon-like illustrations accompanied by both handwritten and typeset text.” Artist’s site; the artist wasn’t involved with ...

Hunting for a record deal won’t cut it anymore. Modern bands are focusing more on the Internet, looking for film soundtrack opportunities and piggy-backing album sales on designer T-shirts. © 2010 The Los Angeles Times (full story)

Bravo TV will be offering rewards and other incentives tied to its shows to players of the mobile social gaming start-up, Foursquare.

Here is a composition of words created from this blog by the very cool website Wordle.  Have fun and enjoy. This is how Wordle sees my blog