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Sunday, January 30, 2005
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 Sunday, January 30, 2005
started 1/30/2005; 10:47:06 AM - last post 1/30/2005; 3:57:27 PM
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Doc Searls - Sunday, January 30, 2005 
1/30/2005; 2:47:06 PM (reads: 3766, responses: 2)
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Soundings 
| | Looking for audio company on a long drive today, I downloaded what I assumed were podcasts of the Blogging, Journalism and Credibility conference, but alas, I just got html (dated Aug 6, 2004, oddly) telling me the page you are trying to reach is inaccessible because the user has exceeded their alloted daily quota. Ah well. Later, I guess. |
Authoring Authority, Part N
| | It will be interesting to see how the second book changes my blog in the future, because it's clear to me that the blog since March has changed the way I'm writing this book. The blog has become my networking archive and my intellectual archive, with the book becoming the polished draft for history that is forced to string everything together in a coherent, accessible package. If I can keep this interaction/dynamic going over the long haul, it's almost like I've become my own columnist and that creative process feeds regular books, just like syndicated columnists do it. If that model holds for me, it will be awfully exciting in terms of creative freedom—like I just took the Internet to create my own dream job! |
On a crutch
| | I fully expect that this new model of the masses weighing in on products and services -- in effect engaging in a marketing dialogue with the creators and deliver's of these products and services -- to fundamentally alter and shape what ends up on real or virtual store shelves. |
| | I'm concerned about this trend (toward data-crippled cell phones), because I use my Sony Ericsson T637 as a mobile bridge to the Net. Being able to get onto the Net from anywhere in Cingular's footprint is a huge advantage, and one of the reasons Cingular has my business. |
| | I've read a lot of posts at the links above, and still don't get is why they want to disable those features. What's the upside of not allowing customers to use the phones as a bridge to the Net? I'm sure there is one, but why bother? |
| | I also have my doubts about "dialog" with many of the companies involved, especially if users (even the techies) continue calling themselves "consumers" instead of "customers." The former is a degraded form of the latter. Think of what Verizon did to bluetooth on the v710 to get an idea of the difference. |
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Sean - Bluetooth and Crippling
1/30/2005; 5:36:44 PM (reads: 393, responses: 0)
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First slice would be the lawyers. There has been a lot of chatter about bluesnarfing and bluejacking, and taking over phones, turning them into spam or virus platforms, etc. If I was verizon or another carrier's legal team and I saw this, I would imaging that the first person to be sued if Paris Hilton's address book was hijacked and sold on ebay would be Verizon. Not the guy who stole it or the kid who wrote the virus, but the carrier. Deep pockets.
Sy SIMS used to say "an Educated Consumer is our best customer". Thanks to frivolous lawsuits it isn't necessary to be educated, or protect ourselves.
WIRED had a nice, paranoid report on it here:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/phreakers.html
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Andrew Leyden - I gave up
1/30/2005; 7:57:27 PM (reads: 427, responses: 0)
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I have an advantage in that my travel takes me to Europe and Asia, so it was relatively easy to give up on American handsets and just switch to one I purchased overseas (uncrippled). Of course I had to pay some money (i.e. not the free or nearly free) but I had a choice of phones simply unmatched here in the US. Slip in my SIM (its a GSM phone) and go from there.
What I find interesting is that CDMA phones in China have sim cards, but Verizon, the largest CDMA system in America, does not have cards (so I've been told). Rather, they actually "burn" the phones with the data inside, thus rendering it impossible to use the handset EVER on another carrier. I may be mistaken, but it's probably the case.
Anyway, like I said, I'm just buying phones overseas now. The extra cost is worth the added benefits of a) newest tech and b) more flexibility.
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