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| Tuesday, March 12, 2002 |
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Watch the bulldozers and full scream ahead 
| | Bizzare vs. Bazaar lays out the DMCA's latest threat to Internet Radio — and to the rest of the Commons we call the Net. It matters more than anything else I might write today, so I'm leaving this post at the top of the stack. |
Coincidence?
| | A couple weeks ago, sitting in a restaurant, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey were sitting at the next table. Doing a movie together? I wonder. Now I'm sitting in an airplane, somewhere over Kansas, watching the very next movie I'm seeing after that dinner: K-PAX, with Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey. |
| | We're descending into Denver now. The sun is setting behind the Rockies and we are in the midst of sunset, sliding on rails of air between horizontal curtains of wisp, eighty colors of orange and gray. A thought comes into my mind: |
| | A life full of moments
And the inconvenience of mortality. |
| | [Later...] That movie, K-PAX, put me in a meditative mood. I began to think about an event I missed last night, called "2x20," or Two By Twenty. Something like that. Everybody in a group of twenty had two minutes to answer a question. This year's question was, "What is real?" |
| | Walking out the jetway a few minutes ago, this thought came to me, intact: |
| | Reality is an error in the efficienty of myth |
| | Didn't exactly answer the question, but I wasn't playing the game, either. |
| | Gotta catch another plane. |
Still, it's a gas
| | I'm on the air, through the Airport card on my laptop, at the Austin Airport, using the Wayport service that saturates the space here, waiting to fly through the air to Denver and Santa Barbara, regretting that I'll miss what's clearly the coolest part of SXSW, when all the music stuff happens. Ah well. |
Next year
| | Like the Terminator, I'll be back. SXSW is clearly a very cool show, and Austin is an awesome town. And now I gotta go to the airport, so that'll probably be it for today. |
Live from the panel
| | We're talking about this. |
| | SLAP. Strategic Litigation ... just came up. When will one of us get sued? [Later... here's more, from a blog, of course.] |
| | Rusty: "What weblogs haven't done yet is hard news." And "what we're trying to do is open up the process." |
| | Wow. And bloggers in the audience here are banging hard on the weaknesses of the story. Cool. Q: will AOL drop IE? Not clear. Which means the headline is kinda misleading. |
| | Audience guy: "Fake corporate blogs are like your dad trying to buy pot." |
| | Cameron is talking about dealing with bigoted sites. |
| | Jason: "Can you really believe what you see on television? The trust mechanisms in this community are much more exposed." |
| | Wes: Domain (topic) experts tend to follow up on things. |
| | I brought up the topic of fear. Details later. Gotta go. |
Gray paneling
| | I'm at the P2P: The World Versus the Enterprise panel at SXSW. The panel I'm on is on that same link, up a little bit later. Then it's off to the airport. |
| | It's very interesting to listen to the language here. It's such a giveaway. "We're trying to create a common ground for the consumer." Most of the panelists are suppliers trying to be nice to "the consumer." Partial or absent recognition of The Commons. So I just brought it up. |
| | Good line: "There is no incentive for DRM on the part of consumers." |
Built Ford tough
| | But most important is the freedom to go anywhere from here. I vow never again to work for someone else¼s riches. I am independent being, free to grow rich or die poor using my mind and the thousand bucks I¼ve got in the bank. I refuse to be a slave to the shirt-and-tie drones of Ford or any other Fortune 500 company, now and forever. |
Be afraid
| | Dean explains the Tauzin-Dingell bill. Short summary: it's even worse than it appears. |
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