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Monday, August 5, 2002
Part of my continuing quest to be the oldest among the youngest 
Infrastructure at work
| | Demand was so high for the Infrastructure presentation I gave at JabberConf and the O'Reilly Open Source Convention that it was exceeding the traffic limits at my ISP. |
| | So now, thanks to the gracious folks at O'Reilly, its up at their place. Here it is. |
The next real world Jerry Bruckheimer movie
| | Yes, Virginia, there is a Sector 5. Complete with ominous sounds. Scary. |
Blog of the Day
| | Mitch Ratcliffe, one of my favorite writers/thinkers/talkers, has a new Radio blog. Dig it. |
The good (copy)fight
| | Here's Donna's and here's Arnold's. I'll try to respond to both soon, but I'm kinda max'd out with real work today. The brief meanwhile is: I'm in basic agreement with both of them. |
Janis' Ian's Modest Proposal
| | They are required reading. If you haven't read them yet, go read them now. Each is a 100-car freight train packed with Grade A clues. |
| | The second piece makes a modest and brilliant challenge to the record companies: Create a giant download site filled with everything out of print, charge a quarter per download, share the proceeds with the artists, composers and heirs, and see what happens. |
| | She's betting that all kinds of good discoveries — even whole new sub-industries — will come out of it. |
| | This is where I'd normally add some snarky remark about the record companies. But I won't this time. I'm curious to see what their response will be. |
| | Thanks to Dean, Dave and many others for the pointer. |
| | [Later...] The contrarian views are coming in. Here's Arnold Kling's. I agree with him that "in the next 5-10 years we will have bypassed the music industry entirely." But there is still a fight going on now, and it's good to welcome Janis and her ideas to it. |
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