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 Thursday, February 13, 2003
started 2/13/2003; 9:50:56 AM - last post 2/14/2003; 1:37:22 AM
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Doc Searls - Thursday, February 13, 2003 
2/13/2003; 1:50:56 PM (reads: 8633, responses: 4)
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Bleyond Radio 
Dave Stutz is a free man
| | Literally. That link goes to what Dave calls "A sanitized version of retirement email written when I left Microsoft." |
| | This is a serious development. Dave has been the bearded open source community insider at Microsoft for a long time: a good and honorable man who for years did an amazing job of bridging two worlds — commercial and noncommercial, Microsoft and everybody else. You may recall Dave playing the role of Craig Mundie's "mini-me" on a panel at O'Reilly's Open Source Conference (which I blogged live) about a year and a half ago. |
| | Digging in against open source commoditization won't work - it would be like digging in against the Internet, which Microsoft tried for a while before getting wise. Any move towards cutting off alternatives by limiting interoperability or integration options would be fraught with danger, since it would enrage customers, accelerate the divergence of the open source platform, and have other undesirable results. Despite this, Microsoft is at risk of following this path, due to the corporate delusion that goes by many names: "better together," "unified platform," and "integrated software." There is false hope in Redmond that these outmoded approaches to software integration will attract and keep international markets, governments, academics, and most importantly, innovators, safely within the Microsoft sphere of influence. But they won't . |
| | This parting advice by Dave may be more important to Microsoft than anything else written about the company, ever. |
Blomotional Message
| | I just created and put up the little promotional banner for Live from the Blogosphere, there on the left. Below that you'll find something new: "cosmic links" to the five panelists. Those links go to the "cosmos" of each panelist. Those are the clouds of blogs and other pages that point to each panelist's blog, courtesy of Technorati. (Temporary note... Technorati is experiencing a few problems right now.) |
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Blog on
| | Meg here just pointed me to Blog Logic, a new project she started. I just joined. Let's help her out. |
Preparing for World War III
| | I heard yesterday a rumor that we'd be at Code Red by Friday. We're merely Code Orange right now. The likelihood we'll feel terror is high. Paranoia is policy now. Stuff that would have been front page news three years ago is passing quietly by. |
| | We're in diplomatic meltdown. This war we're already waging will have unintended consequences all over the place, most of them bad. It can get like that when you're hellbent on performing a lesser evil, even when it's for a greater good. |
Thinking about tomorrow
| | I love looking stuff up on the Web. |
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lou josephs - Panic
2/13/2003; 2:06:07 PM (reads: 1041, responses: 0)
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Fueled by the 24 hour cable news beast. Here in the DC area you can not find bottled water, duct tape, or plastic. It's whats on talk radio and what you see on cable.
Monitoring the UHF military bands is fun, with F 16's enforcing a 30 mile ADIZ (air defense indentifcation zone) over the area.
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lou josephs - Somethings going on in London
2/13/2003; 4:06:02 PM (reads: 1001, responses: 0)
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Been listening to BBC Radio 5's drive show. Two arrested at Heathrow, Gatwick North terminal is closed, one arrested there.
Very managed info coming from local BBC.
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lou josephs - latest from the UK
2/13/2003; 5:03:32 PM (reads: 546, responses: 0)
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Hamish MacEwan - Re: Thursday, February 13, 2003
2/14/2003; 5:37:22 AM (reads: 545, responses: 0)
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Here it's tomorrow, Valentine's Day.
Power laws aren't that significant where choice is frictionless. Network effects and tipping points don't occur without leverage and blogs are ... disposable. I'm with you Doc, until you go crazy, that day, there'll be another blog because you can't change that, so you live with it, adapt to it, thrive on it even. The prisoner's dilemma, :~/.mutt/sigs$ cat sig57
Our most basic common link is that, we all inhabit this small
planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our
childrens' future and we are all mortal.
-- JFK
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