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 Thursday, January 2, 2003
started 1/2/2003; 1:00:58 AM - last post 1/6/2003; 12:54:39 AM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, January 2, 2003 
1/2/2003; 5:00:58 AM (reads: 6148, responses: 5)
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It isn't who you are, it's how you blog 
| | By the way, the headline harks back to what may be best L.A. t-shirt I've ever seen. On the front was a simple black drawing of a pair of shades and the corner of a face. The text said "It isn't who you are, it's how you look. After all, who cares who you are?" They were around in the late 80s and I haven't seen one in years. But I've never stopped regretting not buying one. |
Tribal blogging
| | Ross Mayfield: Blog Tribe Social Network Mapping. Very interesting stuff that invites more thinking about identity, as well as blogging and several other subjects that naturally come up. |
And they probably didn't sweat the porn, either
| | I just aced this geography test (and so will you). Unsurprisingly, most young American Adults couln't find India, and 29% couldn't find the Pacific Ocean. |
| | Americans who reported that they accessed the Internet within the last 30 days scored 65 percent higher than those who did not. |
It had to happen
| | An alert reader sent me a CBS Marketwatch newsletter that says AOL will offer blogging capabilities to its customers. No link from the CBS Marketwatch front page (which also lacks search)... Ah, Google News just found it... |
Is Jakob on this case yet?
| | One of the most important virtues of a bloggable (i.e. linkable) blog is copyability. One should be able to copy text from a page. Lately there seem to be more and more blogs that force me to View Source and copy the text from the HTML. That's complicated and aversive. |
| | I'm not going to point fingers, yet. But I suggest that each of ya'll who are bloggers pause to see if it's possible to highlight and copy your text. If it ain't, fix it. |
| | Meanwhile, append it to point 5, here. |
Keeping up with Venus
| | Global heating (why stop at "warming"?) continues: |
| | In an analysis of 172 species of plants, birds, butterflies and amphibians, Parmesan found that spring events such as egg-laying or flower-blooming advanced 2.3 days on average each decade. |
| | Her analysis of studies of 99 species of birds, butterflies and alpine herbs in North America and Europe found these species' ranges have shifted northward an average of about 3.8 miles per decade. |
| | We got a jump on the whole thing by moving south. |
Keep it Stupid, Simple
| | It's better to focus on having more bandwidth than more intelligent networks. That is, forget about the fascist task of deciding that certain network traffic is more important than other network traffic. Rather, spend your energy (telcos and chipmakers and network equipment makers) on simply increasing the pool. In a non-prioritized network, more bandwidth means that more different kinds of traffic have an equal chance to get through. |
Shiftage
| | ...what the internet gives us now is a blunt instrument for carving out definitions of ownership and control. What digital identity holds out as a promise is the possibility of refining and making more subtle those definitions......and if done right, it won't scare the shit out of people either....in fact, it will empower them to greater levels of commerce and innovation. |
| | Mitch also says Doc's "OurIdentity" idea is good, but I'd suggest that the right phrase to describe T2 is "Negotiated and temporary (or temporal)." |
| | That's fine, but also nonmemorable. Remember, marketing is arson. If your idea isn't combustible, it won't catch. I'm not sure about ourdentity yet. In fact, I'm not sure about the whole Digital ID conversation, which seems to have set fire to a relatively small group of people (yes, it's a big fire, but still). |
| | Which is why I agree with what I said at DIDW a few months back: we need the killer app for DigID: an invention that mothers necessity. Without that, we're still using soggy matches. |
More reach, less grasp
| | What would happen if "consumer electronics" became "customer electronics"? |
| | Under an agreement between representatives of the Consumer Electronics Association and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, new cable-ready HDTV's to be introduced in the next few years will be plug-and-play; they will no longer need a separate box to receive digital broadcasts, HDTV versions of pay services or any other available basic cable or pay-TV programming. |
| | The digital FireWire connection will allow program providers to restrict the number of times that a program can be recorded. Under the agreement, HDTV programs from network broadcasters sent through cable or satellite companies will be completely unrestricted and recordable. Subscribers to pay services like HBO could be restricted from making more than one copy of programs from those services. |
| | While the agreement allows program providers to prevent any recording of pay-per-view or video-on-demand programs, users of hard-disk-based recorders like TiVo would be allowed to record and then watch such a program up to 90 minutes later. |
| | - Conrol of content would no longer reside entirely on the supply side.
- What we now call DRM would be a two-way system.
- The market for content would be a helluva lot larger and more interesting, because it wouldn't just be a supply-control distro sytem.
- It won't happen until the consumers actually turn into customers.
- And that won't happen until demand-controlled DigID gives consumers the ability to perform as full-powered customers in the networked world.
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| | Speaking of CE, I'll be missing CES next week. Be interesting to hear about progress on that front from anybody who might be going. |
Rings around Uranus
Who, who, who, who and who
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Susan Kitchens - Re: Thursday, January 2, 2003 (copying from browsers)
1/2/2003; 8:42:30 PM (reads: 538, responses: 4)
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Doc,
I'd noticed that too. What browser are you using? In learning more about Cascading Style Sheets, I've noticed some behaviors. My ad hoc findings are posted on my web site (based on how certain browsers interpret cascading style sheet div settings). I'll try to find out more.
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Daniel Berlinger - Re: copying from browsers
1/2/2003; 11:43:55 PM (reads: 613, responses: 3)
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I've always considered the div thing Susan mentioned a bug in IE Mac's CSS handling (two div elements alone won't cause the problem without a stylesheet or so I test).
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Doc Searls - Re: copying from browsers
1/3/2003; 12:26:59 AM (reads: 722, responses: 2)
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You're right. In Mozilla I can't replicate the problem. Don't have the Linux box up right now. Nor a Windows to check it on. So it's just the IE on OS X. For me, at least.
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Matthew Thomas - Re: copying from browsers
1/3/2003; 10:33:55 AM (reads: 852, responses: 1)
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Meanwhile, some pages really do try to stop you from copying stuff out of them — by opening windows which don’t have any menus, and then disabling the context menu too. MSIE for Mac gleefully ignores both of these techniques (“oh, you want a window without a menu bar in it? on the Mac, a window never does have a menu bar in it! ha ha!”), while Mozilla allows them.
So much for DRM not being an issue in Free Software, eh?
— mpt
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Jed S. Baer - Re: copying from browsers
1/6/2003; 4:54:39 AM (reads: 975, responses: 0)
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I don't see the connection between DRM and Free software, because the technique of using JavaScript to disable or rewrite context menus is hardly DRM-quality. It's about at the level of that CD "protection" from a while ago (the one that caused Macs such headaches) which was easily disabled using a felt-tip marker. All you have to do is turn off JavaScript.
Neither Lynx, nor wget suffer any of these afflictions. And it doesn't take much PHP or Perl code to snag an HTML page, if you're so inclined.
Or, if you don't mind hunting a little, find the content on disk in your browser's cache.
It's sort of a microcosm of the DRM issue though. Don't remember where the article is, but I read not too long ago an opinion piece which stated that any copy protection will eventually be cracked, and so was ultimately futile. Well, maybe it won't get cracked, but somebody will figure out how to bypass it, which I guess amounts to the same thing. After all, if the content (I'm thinking of DVDs and CDs here) is playable, then there's a way to get at the unencrypted data someplace.
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