I am a freelance writer. Most of the time, I contract with my newspaper to sell a stories (and the rights thereto) to that one publication. Yet when I search for myself on Google these days, I find more and more links to the full text of my articles on Web sites with names like "freebizarticlessourcedestination.com" (* not sure if that's a real site; I use that name purely for example).
And, more and more often, my name shows up attached to the story without the name of the publication.
Seeing this on some guy's shill site irks me, even though legally it's not my problem - I sold the rights to that story, it's the newspaper's story now. Even so, this reflects on me when it appears I may have written this story for the site in question. I don't write "content" for Web sites; I write for newspapers as a freelance journalist. And I don't like the thought of my work being plagiarized or repackaged, in general, although at this point the money is less of an issue than the annoyance of it being taken out of context.
For a second, I thought I read "a meth lab in your cell phone," and wondered if Kevin Federline's rap album had been made into ringtones
In all seriousness, I could see this sort of program (on a phone or other small-scale wireless device) becoming a tool for people who work in technical fields. The only problem is, there is likely to be a disconnect between the people who aren't afraid of trusting a cellphone for complex operations (i.e. graphing) and those who are still lugging around a TI-81 from the mid-'90s, or one of its decendants. Cellphones might work well for casual mathematics, but who really needs to graph something while out shopping or waiting in line at the bank?
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn