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Monday, April 22, 2002
A large what? 
| | But the kid really wanted to see it, so I thought, hell: okay. |
| | Clicking on the link sent me to an order page. I thought I was registered, but apparently not. Meanwhile I got stuck in a failed password page loop. |
| | I went back to the Star Wars trailer page and tried to repeat the process. After creating an account, I was defaulted into an order process that said I was buying two copies. There was no way to change the order. When I clicked on View Current Order, the only option was to remove the entire quantity, apparently. It went to zero and I found myself in the Apple Store. |
| | Years ago Jamie Zawinski told me that exactly one company had figured out e-commerce: Amazon.com. I'm sure the number is a little higher now. But Apple's still got a ways to go before it's in the same league. |
A tough bill to swallow
No mystery
It's even more labyrinthine than it appears
| | It's not a bad time to point again to Jamie Zawinski's Webcasting Legally essay, which details the nearly-impossible logging requirements all Webcasters would have to maintain, none of which are required of over-the-air broadcasters. |
| | This crap, more than anything else, is how CARP would put webcasters out of business. |
Flying with both wings
| | Doc took issue with my identifying him as a "liberal pacifist" in the story, saying he prefers "lily-livered libertarian." |
| | Doc, how about "left-leaning libertarian"? Certainly you're not a right-leaning libertarian like P.J. O'Rourke, nor a more ideological libertarian like Virginia Postrel. I mean, I've never seen you argue that NPR should be privately funded. :-) And, well, just read your own prolific writings. |
| | As a matter of fact, I advocated private funding for NPR right here on Thursday: |
| | Here's where I'm in extreme agreement with Cato: I want NPR weaned from the last 2% it still milks from the federal teat, and I want it ‹ and its hundreds of affiliates ‹ to realize what a gold mine they have in something commercial radio does not: listeners who are also customers. A real commercial relationship. Accountability to millions of loyal customers. What an incredible fucking privileged position these guys are in. Amazing. |
| | And yet they waste their time, and enormous amounts of market karma, flattening real community radio ‹ a potential distribution channel ‹ all over the place. They did it when they got the FCC to kill off the sub-100-watt Class D license a couple decades ago; and they did it again when they joined with their paranoid commercial brethren to do the same to low power FM a couple years ago. |
| | I will, however, cop to being a leftie in this sense: given a choice between what George Lakoff calls the "strict father" model of conservatism and the "nurturant parent" model of liberalism, I'll take the latter. |
| | Like most Libertarians, I tend to like less government. Unlike most Liberals, I love business, and love markets. But, unlike most Libertarians (and Conservatives), I don't believe the market has yet been built that can save an old growth redwood tree. I also don't believe markets, as we commonly understand them, give a shit about the Long View. |
| | Yet I believe we've barely begun to understand what markets really are, which are laboratories for relationships. So I believe markets are nurturant environments than we give them credit for when we restrict our descriptions to the languages of war, sports or shipping. |
| | Basically, I believe the old labels suck. When I try any of them on, they don't fit. And I think that's their problem, not mine. |
Depidgeonation
| | We're not warblogs, and not peaceblogs, not just because they're silly words of limited scope and even duration, but because ... we're people! We each cover the range of subjects that interests us, and thus each web log is unique, not part of some Greater Dichotomy. |
| | Oh, sure, you can view it as such. But then you're missing the point. |
| | Today I've watched a TV correspondent surfing the web on the air to convey information during a breaking newscast, and watched web loggers argue about who should or shouldn't have their web log entries published in a book. But despite these new bumps and surges of convergence, we can't seem to get away from either/or and us/them. The truth is Jason wrote some very worthy things related to 9-11, whether anyone describes him as a "warblog" or not. |
| | And on the other side of the coin, there are indeed people who may not have been First Wavers like Jason but were veteran bloggers long before 9-11, who consider themselves generally left of center, yet fully support the war on terrorism. |
| | And don't care if they are published in a book or not. |
| | So build me my own cubbyhole. No label, please. |
| | My sentiments exactly. Bravo. |
Shalom
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