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From this review of Becky Hogge's Barefoot into Cyberspace:
There's a not-so secret about activists that those pursuing anti-democratic policies have unfortunately spotted: they burn out. A trade association has its choice of professional lobbyists willing to be paid to argue the cause during working hours. The supply of people willing to donate their lives to sparking protest for little or no money is much smaller, however, and the toll is intense.
(Amongst other things, the idea of getting a law degree and leaping into the current Intellectual Property fray on the side of good has a great deal of appeal to me, and this is why. There are plenty of excellent law firms taking up the interests of the monied corporations, but few folks standing up for remixers, independent artists, consumers, and so forth -- almost nobody can afford to.)
Just moved my "professional" blog here from Posterous.
I know I'm not Posterous' target audience, but it drove me nuts how their formatter mangled my text, littering <br>s all over the place, then mashing up all the line breaks. More than once, I've found out that their post editor is flat busted for me -- usually when the formatter has made a mess of something I've already posted, conveniently making it impossible for me to clean it up.
Even better: back in December, they decided to bring Viglink on board, a service which adds a Posterous affiliate code to links in your blog that don't have an affiliate code already. Of course, they didn't see fit to inform their users of this change; one of the Posterous founders replied on HackerNews, but they haven't mentioned it on their official blog or twitter stream.
I know the folks here at DW will never pull that kind of stupid shit.
To boot, Dreamwidth has always been rock-solid for me in terms of
reliability, which is funny when you think about how often the lights
seem to go out on the services with dozens of full-time staff and
sacks full of money. In short: thanks, ![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png){kind=small}
denise and mark. =)