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Friday, April 19, 2002
PAC on track 
| | Paul Boutin in WiredNews: Mr. and Ms. Geek Go to Washington. Great piece — even though I'm labeled a "liberal pacifist" ("lily-livered libertarian" would be more like it) and I'd have prefered it if the March on Washington link went here instead of wherever it was. Well-researched, balaned... good stuff. |
Politics as unusual
Are we down to one degree here?
| | AKMA got various advanced degrees at Yale Divinity School and Duke University. Aside from wondering if that makes him a Bull Devil fan, I'm suspecting that we have common friends and acquaintences. I didn't go to either school, although I worked at Duke in various ways in the late 70s, and had lots of friends who worked or went to school there, up through the mid 80s. And my high school roommate, Paul Marshall, taught for quite a while at the Yale Divinity School. He is now The Right Reverend Paul Victor Marshall, Th.D, D.D., of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem, PA. |
Microlobbery
Cartel formation alert
| | In Toronto a couple years ago, I was talking with Eric Raymond over lunch about the thinking behind the rather weak crypto used by most DVDs and their players. "It's all about cartelizing the market for playback," he said. |
| | That's exactly what's happening right now, again, as the stars of the consumer electronics industry, calling themselvers the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group (BPDG) convene in semi-secret to come up with a "technical standard" for next-gen digital television equipment. The EFF has the story. |
| | Next to private agreements like this one, what Hollings and other Disney sock puppets in congress are doing with SSSCA-CBDTPA is just EIEIO. Red herring stuff. |
Quotes, numbers, mental pocket lint
| | The UpFront section of every Linux Journal has a "They said it" list of quotes from the last month (or whenever, doesn't matter, really), and an "LJ Index" of interesting, mostly ironically juxtaposed, current numbers and statistics. |
| | If you've got any of either, or feel like pointing me to some, please do. I'm on deadline today. To me "on deadline" always sounded a bit like "on drugs," but it's more like being on fire. But that's too dramatic. Maybe it's more like just having your shoes on fire. |
| | By the way, these don't have to be Linux-related. They just have to be interesting to the community of folks (now approaching everybody) who one way or another put Linux to work. Another angle: if you think it might be interesting to me, chances are it'll do. |
Stupid human tricks
| | Makes me wonder how many bloggers in this hyperlitigious country will end up seeing their free speech shunted into documents like this one. |
| | Thanks to Mary for the link. |
It's come to this
| | Another marketing writer advises floggery on bloggery. This guy thinks what you're reading right now is a new way "to observer consumer opinions." It gets worse: |
| | Personally-maintained blogs are a good source of attitudinal information from the individual consumer perspective. Group blogs tend to have a theme and provide insight into community perspective of a product. This is a good place to examine a product's reputation, how it is viewed in relation to other products, and how the product is being used. |
| | This is the kinda shit we used to throw into RageBoy's cage, but he doesn't seem to be offering his individual consumer perspective lately. (He has good reasons, but still.) |
| | Thanks to Alan for the link. |
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