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Monday, January 14, 2002
Upgrade time 
| | I'm on the cusp of upgrading my Titanium — the computer on which I live — to OS X. Stability is a big attraction. So is the fact that MacOS Classic is terminal. So is the fact that the Linux world is a Unix one, and so is OS X. So is discovering that GoLive, Photoshop and other classig Mac apps seem to work just fine in OS X. But biggest is the fact that Radio Userland runs on it, and in a much more evolved form than anything we've seen before. Another is that Radio is slowed by a bug in IE5 on MacOS, and I have no faith that Microsoft will fix it — and, I hate to admit it, I find all other browsers less useful (if more politiclaly correct) than IE. So, now that Radio is there, I'm ready to go. (In fact, I'm already there on the G4 desktop, which I'm typing on right now.) |
| | Anyway, going there is a little complicated, because I still get all my mail on the Eudora client on the TiBook. Plus other inconveniences. So blogging might get a bit slower, but just for the next day or two. |
Sinking in a sea of clues
| | Based on Kevin Marks' experience, detailed in his Epeus' epigone blog, I nominate the Universal Music Group for a TDCRC Iceberg Award. Seems Kevin wrote Universal to challenge their plans to make copying CDs impossible, — for the purpose of "protecting" copyright holders from the natural behavior of music markets in which the supply side is not in absolute control of what the demand side can and cannot do. Universal wrote back, expressing the company's deep concern for Kevin's "consumer experience," among other insanities born of isolation of supply from demand. I love Kevin's reply: |
| | I don't 'consume' music. I listen to it. It's still there afterwards (though I get the impression that you'd like it if it wasn't). |
| | See, the Net has recently installed a working marketplace for music and other forms of artistic expression that industrializers of that expression like to commodify for distribution under the label "content." The music industry, and the entertainment industry of which it is a part, is threatened by that marketplace, and is now laboring mightily not just to protect "rights," but to construct a legal and technical infrastructure that will turn the Internet from a real marketplace to an artificial supply-controlled distribution system: in other words, to morph the Net into a system built to serve the recording, broadcasting and consumer electronics manufacturing, distribution and retailing systems we have had for the last half-century. And there are some highly infrastructural technology companies ready to help them, including Cisco. |
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