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| Wednesday, September 20, 2000 |
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A familiar ring to a different Graham bell
My cousin, Dr. Mark Crissman, just pointed me to a story that ran in yesterday's Burlington (N.C.) Times-News. It's about the big brass bell that sat out in front of the Crissman house for as long as I can remember. I never knew the story behind it. But now we can all read about it. And it's a real winner, for both the town and the family.
Here's the hard copy, complete with a bell and family members. (Warning: it's a 288k .jpg file)
Ya'll might remember that I eulogized the elder Dr. Crissman late last year. We all still miss him. He'd have loved seeing the end to this story.
Not entirely unrelated: more portable penguins
Tuxtops has come to my attention as a company that's putting Linux on laptops in broad daylight and attracting a bunch of conversation about it.
Nice guys, too.
The answer: bigger primates.
In The Big Net Music Thing, Justin Sher says this:
Really, MP3 Radio is the REAL 5000 pound gorilla just waiting to crush the record companies dominance. Once people get enough bandwidth to listen then the ability of record companies to dominate the way that people find bands they like will be over. That and people will be SWIMMING in music as there are hundreds of thousands of bands out there who can't get their stuff played on the radio who will use MP3 radio as a promotional outlet. Once people have so much music available to them that they never listen to the same song twice all day I expect this to have a extremely disruptive impact on global culture.
Can't wait.
The continuing end of distribution as usual
Don Marti follows up on his open letter in response to the SMDI's "hack this" challenge. This struggle won't be settled in the streets or in the courts, but in the home studios, he says, then concludes:
Yes, someone will hack SDMI and post code publicly, and yes, someone else will defend the hack in court. But if you want to join a legal battle against the DMCA, well, you know where to find the DVD cases. News flash: it's been done. The unplowed acres of prime noospher bottomland are the challenges of creating a fair system for supporting more good music. Mr. Chiariglione has shown musicians his plan, so we should offer them better options. (The Street Performer Protocol is attractive, for example.) The real heroes of the fight against SDMI will be the hackers who set an example for how to build the record industry's successor on mutual respect, by making and distributing SDMI-free music.
Wishing I had time to get a haircut
Spent the day yesterday in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina (an old stomping grounds) with the folks from Nortel Networks' Insider. Great people, wonderful project.
I'll have more to say after I do the emergency passport renewal (I fly to Zurich in a couple days).
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