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Thursday, July 17, 2003
Pretty cheap, considering 
Meeting familiar strangers
| | The most interesting usage scenario follows the familiar strangers element. These are people that are recognizable by sight. The viewer sorta knows them (perhaps they are part of the same scene), but has never had a reason to converse. Not only does Friendster provide useful information about a potential date (single status, sexuality, age, etc.), but it provides an additional context in which to start a conversation. |
| | There's a lot more. You can add to it by filling out her survey. |
Effects
| | Blew my mind soon as I read it. Just like Marc Andreessen blew my mind when he said "All the significant trends start with technologists." Also the simpler "Technology trends start with technologists," although I can't find a source document for it. Doesn't matter; it's still sobriety therapy for marketers. |
| | The best networks win. Whoa. |
Speaking of loads
| | Says here that Reps Conyers and Berman (both Democrats, fwiw) want jail time for folks who share music on their hard drives. There's nothing about the bill (or even much current stuff at all) on Conyer's site. Berman's site points to Tom-watson.co.uk, titled Section-by-Section Analysis of The Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act of 2003. |
| | [Note: Thanks to Lloyd Davis for pointing to some kind of problem with that last link. Not sure what was going on there. Tom-watson.co.uk is the blog of an M.P. in the U.K. I'd been there, but not recently; so I don't know what it was doing on my clipboard when I pasted in the link. I had neglected to include the "http://" so it just went to a 404 anyway. The correct link is to one of the four under "Hot Issues" on the Howard Berman official site. That site has no permalinks (and will no doubt disappear once the Congressman quits serving, since the URL is http://www.house.gov/berman. (Why not make it permanent with www.house.gov/ca/28th ?) I'll copy and paste the HTML so there are no mistakes this time:] |
| | They might as well call it the Jail your customer industrial suicide act. |
| | Here's the operative Analysis of Sec 301: |
| | Clarifies that the uploading of a single copyrighted work to a publicly accessible computer network meets the 10 copy, $2,500 threshold for felonious copyright infringement. |
| | From Berman, here are the press release and the floor statement. A .pdf file of the whole bill is here. (Isn't there a law somewhere that says the damn bill should be in html? Oughta be if there isn't.) |
There are responses to this message:Re: Thursday, July 17, 2003, Brad Hsu, 7/30/03; 7:46:24 AM Re: Speaking of loads, lloyd davis, 7/19/03; 12:19:26 PM Re: Thursday, July 17, 2003, lou josephs, 7/18/03; 9:19:33 AM
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