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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Almost true 
| | Without the leavening influence of commercial advertising, people might say anything they felt like, might write anything that came into their heads. And the result? A cacophony of opinion, random, unverified ideas, and an overall disrespect for the lubricating beneficence of the only value that really counts for anything in America today: money. |
Much better
| | The opening keynote was framed almost entirely from the perspective of the recording industry — the people for whom creating and navigating legal logjams is a way of life. I'd link to it, but the Net's down now; and I want to post something quickly when the window opens... and get back to working on my closing keynote. |
| | By the way, during the first panel, I noted (from the audience) that there might be an uncredited reason why there's relatively little blogging from employees at Google and Apple — while there's an abundance from employees at Microsoft and Sun. A friend at Apple recently told me that he and others at the company tend not to blog because "When you're winning..." |
| | If it had been available, would we have seen blogging at Microsoft or Sun back in the days when those companies were "winning?" Interesting question. |
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