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Thursday, July 13, 2006
Not sure they've graduated 
| | A music industry coalition (1) today proposed a reform of UK copyright laws which, according to their press release, would see ³Internet Service Providers (ISPs), mobile phone companies and device manufacturers² paying a levy or licence fee to the music industry for any illegal file sharing that their services or products enable. |
| | This new right, which they have called the Value Recognition Right, would "allow the music industry to create a commercial relationship with any company deriving value from either the sharing or storage of music. |
Mashup up at the Mercury
| | Here's her story about the event, with a better visual of the paper than on the paper's own site. |
Silver lining to the MacLeod
| | Here. Amongst the remarks, |
| | Hugh pushed onward - never giving up on his dream of one day owning a yacht, sailing on a sea of fine wine, and playing "connect the dots" while having sex with cash and business theory. Taking refuge in the comfort of a pencil, Hugh began to believe in his wicked little world - to the point where he actually Monkeyboned himself into it. If you happen to Mr. MacLeod in a bar, do not approach lest you wish to incur his comical wrath on the following day. |
Follow-up
| | This means, by the way, that my old cell number, from Seattle's 206 area code, will be retiring at the end of this month. The new one is native to Santa Barbara's 805 area code, and memorable, even. (The old one was one of the least memorable numbers, ever.) |
| | [Later...] Somewhere in the middle of trying to get what I wanted out of Cingular, I found the business card of a guy who had been very helpful at a Cingular store in the past. I wrote to him, and just got an email back. It read, |
| | Well you can't go wrong with sony ericssons or even the treo 650. But our new laptop card is Mac Compatable and supports edge and even UMTS which we will be deploying here in town within a few months. With Edge you will connect around 120kbs but with the UMTS you can connect around 780kbs. That would obviously be a better solution for you. |
| | Too bad I didn't get that earlier. Oh well. |
| | I have a feeling the same card should be Linux-compatible too. No idea, though. |
Carfi's corollary
| | Put another way, here's a hypothetical situation. You go to the grocery store, and run into an old friend in the bakery aisle and start getting caught up. Pop quiz: Which one of you is the audience? |
| | There is no hierarchy. There is no power gradient. Neither one of you is the "audience." Sure, the roles change back and forth as the conversation flows, but, ultimately, it's a partnership and a collaborative effort and exchange. Sometimes one party may be speaking more, sometimes the other, but at the end of the interaction, the experience that has been shared has been a jointly created one. |
| | Christopher's product, Haystack, is an example of what Don Marti calls 2GI, or 2nd Generation Intermediation. Its a new form of mediation that gets older forms out of the way. It's the shortest distance, for example, betwen users and the people who create what they use. |
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