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Thursday, May 23, 2002
Now just a number  Somewhere in here (a link I offer as a test to see when his permalinks start working) Andrew Sullivan calls Glenn Reynolds' new Instapundit "frightening." Most frightening of all is the URL: it's the purely numerical address. So much for branding in the address line. This is not a simulation. This is a real attack. In Hollywood Wants to Plug the 'Analog Hole', Cory Doctorow reveals key points of the "Content Protection Status Report" filed with the Senate Judiciay Committee by the MPAA — a document that lays out the Evil Empire's Internet-destruction plans, which involve turning humble ADCs (Analog/Digital Converters) into content permission valves that would govern approximately the full range of "content" use:
Qwaste Eric Norlin sez Quest is going down. By the way, I spoke a few days ago to a guy I respect, who knows his stuff about the Net, telcos and the rest of it. He says that Joe Nacchio, CEO of Qwest, is actually not all that bad a guy. "His first problem is that he's smarter than nearly everybody else. His second problem is that he's not as smart as he thinks he is." Also, "He's a tough fighter from New Jersey, and that rubs a lot of people the wrong way." Whatever, he's got a lot of unhappy customers. Stockholders too. Only six shopping months left Sheila Lennon:
CARPola, cont'd Mary Wehmeier: It's Not Over Yet...
Dave is thinking out loud about real-time blogging at conferences, and what that means — both for blogging and conferences. Neither will be the same. How should both improve and evolve? Here's one way: it puts more journalists, like me, on the road, taking public notes at conferences, which become much more inviting. For example, I wasn't even thinking about going to PopTech this year, but what's rumored to be happening there with wi-fi and blogging has me tempted. Here's another: it invites whole new classes of software and hardware. New inventions, new convergences. How about broadband through cell phone signals? (For those places that don't provide wi-fi.) The technology exists, and so do its advocates; just not the knowledgeable demand. Blogs can change that situation in a matter of weeks. How about if Arraycomm, Verizon and TakeYourPick wireless card maker showed off some synergy at a conference like PopTech or PC Forum? If you want to blog anywhere there's cell coverage, that's the way to make it happen. The fact that users and developers are in the same conversation is a highly viral (or combustible, choose your metaphor) combination. Add the conference-givers and you've got a whole venue species. Add an inspired (and unselfish) wireless broadband provider and a few partners, and you change the world. When I read what John Engler says, and what Joshua Allen shows, it's clear to me that we're looking at a lot more than how to set up and run a blog. As Dave told me on the phone today, "the cursor is on conferences" right now. Not last year's agruments, or even what we're reading about blogs in the mainstream press. We're going to click on that cursor and turn it into an insertion bar. What are we going to write with it? So who's the mother? Larry Roberts, Robert Kahn, Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee have been awarded the 2002 Prince of Strurias Award for Scientific and Technical Research for being "founding fathers of the Internet." Hello Marybeth, goodbye CARP Drs. Weinberger and Jastrzebski have come up with contact info for Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights and candidate for Internet radio saint. Send her your love. Where do you want to screw up today? Once again, Microsoft seems to be shooting itself in the mouth again, this time with the Pentagon. There are lots of ways the company can compete against open source and free software. Saying its coexistence threatens the company's intellectual property isn't one of them. [Later...] The Head Lemur explains. And here's the Slashdot. Set your lobbying switch back to ON Here's my take on CARP, at the Linux Journal site. Here's more news about the issue. And still more. Truly a Thing of Beauty One upside of my TiBook G4/500 crash: getting used to the new G4/800. Much better color, finer (shrunk down) detail, brightness (Test case: Cheyenne, courtesy of Chris). And faster, even though the /500 is no slouch. Gotta be a lot more careful with it, though, 'cuz it ain't mine. Discredit where due: I beat the crap out of my /500, and was doing many simultaneous not-recommended kinda things when it went down. [Later...] A reader just came back with a pointer to this site. Tales of Turning Tides, cont'd Rob Walker in Anchor Steam at TNR Online:
Credit where due I am told by a local that the great restaurant I went to yesterday was most likely the Monterey Palace, in Monterey Park, CA. A tragedy of manners Eric Olsen and Virginia Postrel have been explaining Andrew Sullivan. I think The Problem With Andrew has less to do with putting down (Eric) or sucking up (Virginia) than it does with simple manners. The man has been loath to link, and that's bad form, whatever the excuse. Anyway, he's getting over it. The link densitiy at AndrewSullivan.com has been going up (yes, always more for the mediarati than for the rest of us, but so the fuck what). And one of these days his permalinks will finally work. Blog and learn. Let's move on. [Later...] Readers respond here and here.
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