Boing! Boing! is the best weblog, period, as far as I’m concerned, but it’s amusing sometimes to watch the contradictions that show up there occasionally. For example, there was Cory Doctorow who usually runs around extolling the virtues of people producing their own media outside of the staid and boring medica corporations, but who constantly referred to Mel Gibson’s Jesus flick as Gibson’s “vanity project.” Post a novel that couldn’t get sold and that nobody’s going to read on your web site and Cory will link to it in a second — make a movie that everyone derided as a career killer and a joke and watch it become one of the biggest movies ever, and it’s a dumb “vanity project.”
Or look at this post by Xeni Jardin,
Indeed. When I first ran accross the site a month or two ago, I was surprised to see they were (without permission) posting excerpts from an article about Hustler publisher Larry Flynt that I wrote for Wired News. Seeing your work snipped out of context to promote a political agenda you’re not part of is almost as disturbing as… um… a talking, evangelical sock puppet that wants your porn.
“Without permission”??? What happened to the Holy Church of Fair Use and Mandatory Licensing at Boing! Boing!?