A transmission from the deep south.Tumblr (3.0; @matthewb)http://matthewbuchanan.name/“It is not only that this law denies the accused any due process, it is that <em>it stipulates a penalty that no court would impose in adjudicating a copyright complaint</em> even if infringement were proven.”<br/><br/> - <em>Russell Brown with <a href="http://publicaddress.net/5693">a backgrounder</a> on section 92(A) of New Zealand’s soon-to-be-enacted new copyright legislation that will require internet service providers to summarily disconnect the accounts of users even <em>accused</em> of repeated copyright infringement. Twitter users are <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23blackout">blacking out</a> their avatars on social networking sites to protest the law, which they believe contravenes the Bill of Rights.</em>http://matthewbuchanan.name/post/78989030http://matthewbuchanan.name/post/78989030Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:07:00 +1300legalnew zealandsocial networkingTwitteravatars<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/oUVPjZYNocno3hcveLftJ7ed_r1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Manga avatar created at <a href="http://www.faceyourmanga.com">Face Your Manga</a>.</p>http://matthewbuchanan.name/post/46014467http://matthewbuchanan.name/post/46014467Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:29:00 +1200avatarswebillustration<a href="http://www.faceyourmanga.com">Face Your Manga</a>: <p>Create a custom avatar image using this great little Flash app, and have it emailed to you as a JPEG file. I love the way they suggest I should “ask for authorization in order to insert [their] link on [my] web site”. Seems to be a huge missed opportunity not to have a version that could be embedded into forum software, or an <abbr title="Application Programming Interface">API</abbr> of some sort. (via <a href="http://twitter.com/wasabicube/statuses/887940301">Peter Asquith</a>)</p>http://matthewbuchanan.name/post/46007253http://matthewbuchanan.name/post/46007253Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:08:00 +1200avatarsweb