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| Monday, January 20, 2003 |
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Power from the People 
| | [Later...] I'm getting pushback, especially privately, on this post. Confession: I know shit about what's happening in Venezuela. My assumption, perhaps erroneous, has been that there must be bloggers on both sides of this thing, much as there are on both sides of every issue here in the U.S. |
| | I'm not taking sides with the Octavio brothers on this issue. That's why I took down the banner I had borrowed from their Blog Day site. I invite those energized on the other side of this issue to send me links to blogs on their side as well. And I invite the Octavio Brothers also to list opposing blogs on their Blog Day site. |
The Third Way
| | I started posting Going Deep here, but then decided to put it where it belongs: in the AOTC blog. I'm kinda working out my thinking on the Eldred Issue while I work on a longer piece about the subject for Linux Journal. |
| | Briefly, I suggest that the most important angle on Eldred isn't legal or political, but rather metaphorical. That's the battle we're really losing. And winning it won't be easy. |
| | With Eldred , the case that ours is an era of conservative judicial activism — in which law is trampled by conservative politics even on the Supreme Court — only gets stronger. |
Blister
Blinkage
| | This classic conflict of having to act locally, but think globally is a tough one, if the too common belief that if one manages the individual links of a chain optimally, the chain will optimally benefit as well. It ain't the links (except maybe for the weak one) -- IT'S THE LINKAGES. It's the relationships of the links, and especially with any currently logistically constraining link that is at the center of effective management. |
| | Add smart mobs, moblogging, Joi's many connections (I love following all the cool folks trekking like Pilgrims to Japan), and the stuff Sony is up to, and I get a sense that there's a major change coming to everything touched by consumer electronics. The sides being taken lately by the Consumer Electronics Association are especially interesting. The break between the consumer electronics industry and Hollywood is wider than it looks, and will swell to oceanic dimensions as the differences in actual market involvement — conversations, again — become more extreme. |
| | Dig this: the CEA supported Eldred, which, had it won, would have delivered a huge crater to Hollywood. Here's Gary Shapiro, president & CEO of the CEA, on the Eldred decision: |
| | It is simply unfair that companies who made their fortune taking works in the public domain and reformatting them for new technology are now preventing others from following the same business model... Congress took from the public and gave to Disney. And while most Justices recognized this was horrible public policy they also chose to find it Constitutional. |
| | For decades the consumer electronics business was notoriously detached from its final customers (their actual customers were usually retailers such as Circuit City). For sport I used to write to the feedback link on Sony's Web site, just to see how lifeless the response would be. The few responses I received basically all said "go away." Now I look at the Sony feedback page, and I get the feeling that they're finally taking some good advice. |
| | Hollywood isn't. That's why they'll lose. |
| | Hmm... maybe they should change that label from Consumer Electronics to Smart Mob Electonics. |
Gene therapy
| | Watched some of the Golden Globes last night (which Evans Above has been blogging since before blogging had a name). In the 24 years between our third and fourth kid, we watched a lot of movies. So when Oscar Time came around, we were well-informed. But for the last six years (the new kid period), we've seen shit. Of the nominated movies on the Golden Globes (which I don't remember being televised in the old days — were they? ... I have no idea), I'd seen none of them; my wife had seen Adaptation (and thought it was terrific). But the one award we could relate to was the Cecil B. DeMille given to Gene Hackman. I'm a big Hackman fan. It was great to see him win. |
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