Jonathan Coulton

Apparently the iTunes podcasting support is neither “all that” nor “a bag of chips.” For starters, so many new people found and downloaded the Little Gray Books podcast that our web host shut us down for the day. I know! And the same thing seems to have happened to a few other podcasts too. It’s [...]

Version 4.9 of iTunes now supports podcasts. I installed it today and had a look, and as expected they did a pretty good job. It’s integrated nicely into the iTunes store, so you can search for, download and listen to podcasts the same way you do songs. This is going to be interesting for the [...]

Before I begin, I will say that I haven’t read the decision (too boring) and I am not a lawyer (too hard). Nonetheless, here is What I Think About This:
With a strange little sidestepping head fake, the supreme court has today ruled that makers of P2P software may be held liable for their users’ copyright [...]

Well, kind of. From the AP via Slashdot, this article about the emergence of authorized P2P sites. PeerImpact is one that’s already in beta – it’s sort of the bastard child of the iTunes store and say, Limewire. You’re still buying songs and the money still goes to the store, and you’re still limited in [...]

Hey, that was fast. Here’s an mp3 of our live performance from Little Gray Books Lecture #31: How to Commit the Perfect Crime. Music by me, lyrics by me and Adam Stein. In a related story, I have decided that I can no longer stand to listen to live recordings of me singing or playing [...]