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started 7/10/2001; 4:56:18 AM - last post 7/13/2001; 12:14:35 PM
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Doc Searls - 
7/10/2001; 8:56:18 AM (reads: 4452, responses: 10)
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Beware the Ides of July 
| | Here's no less than Robert Bork and Kenneth Starr on Microsoft's "victory" in the Court of Appeals: |
| | The government won on the central issue in the case: Microsoft was held to have monopolized the operating-system market in violation of the Sherman Act. |
| | On no count, moreover, was Microsoft's behavior found lawful. The charge of attempted monopolization of the browser market failed only because the government did not offer readily available evidence that browsers constituted a relevant market and that barriers to entry existed. Microsoft won not because it was innocent but because the government did not carry its burden. |
| | Much the same is true of the court's reversal and remand for trial on the issue of whether Microsoft's bolting of its operating system and browser into a single package was an illegal tying arrangement. Noting that the integration of products often benefits consumers, the court rejected a rule of per se illegality and remanded for trial under the rule of reason. The government will have to prove that the anticompetitive effect in the browser market outweighs any enhanced efficiency. Since Microsoft has never been able to articulate a plausible efficiency from the bolting, the government seems likely to prevail. |
Taking redirection
| | I'm not a software jock (to float a huge understatement). But I do know which way the wind blows. Reading Dave and Craig, my take-away is this redirection business. |
| | The irony is, it seems to be about both interop and hijacking market-cornering software strategies like .Net. Guess I need to learn about it. |
Vetting a verity
| | In the midst of transcribing an interview, this occurs to me: |
| | If somebody says "That's a good question," it's because they don't have a good answer. |
Business 0.2
| | [Time passes...] Now I'm told I was wrong. Its here. mea bozo |
| | I still hate what B2 is up (or down) to on its Web site. |
I'll still drink to it
| | The real joke here is that I wasted a bunch of time today running down this "story." |
But it's still serving cookies
| | Webvan has stopped trucking, and its Web site has about as much information as the average headstone. |
All that and it eats shit too
| | RageBoy points to an item about which we might all agree. |
A promise fulfilled
The Adventures of RageBoy and BadMan
| | Reading the latest, I couldn't tell. I suspected it was Norlin, who indeed signed the piece as American Bad Ass. But I suspected the prior piece, which was titled American Bad Ass and concerned itself with the voice of integrity and the created persona, had been written by Locke, until I got to the signature. |
| | Rather than screw around looking for something deep and ironic there, let's mine a more useful vein and imagine a noir business future rather like the one in Bladerunner, in which de-marketing professionals like RageBoy and BadMan are called upon by The Authorities (on behalf of us all, for the public good and all that), to hunt down and and "retire" replicant companies that fake human form but lack actual humanity. |
| | Maybe it's not a fantasy at all. Things are getting a little noir around here, no? So ask yourself: Does a replicant company write my paycheck? Do I write like a replicant? Am I willing to be a bladerunner? |
| | It ain't that hard. Just be yourself. If your employer treats you like a cancer, it's a replicant. You know what to do. |
Cooking with song
| | On the matter of setting highly selective cookie preferences, there seems to be a consensus among readers that Opera is the way to go. Unfortunately my main ax is a Mac. But yours probably isn't, so there is good news here. Maybe you can break your IE dependency. If you're a Mac user, stay tuned. |
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Jay Allen - Re: Opera for Mac
7/10/2001; 1:49:14 PM (reads: 633, responses: 0)
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Hmmmm, I don't get it Doc. There are versions of Opera for the Mac: http://www.opera.com/mac/
Status: There are currently two Macintosh releases available: Opera 5 for Mac Beta 1 (for PowerPC) and Carbon Technology Preview 1 for MacOS X. To stay current on the latest developments of Opera for Macintosh subscribe to our newsletter.
Jay Allen
http://www.openwire.com/web/
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Andreas Schaefer - General problems with this weblog
7/10/2001; 6:41:07 PM (reads: 579, responses: 8)
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Hey Doc,
there are some very basic problems with your weblog i.e. the code
behind it. This really makes reading it with Mozilla a pain in the ass. And since I always try to be constructive, here is a hint: either you try to clean up as much as possible of the errors mentioned here:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdoc-weblogs.com%2F&doctype=Inline
or you get rid of the first line in your template:
!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
is just not correct.
Thanks for your attention and keep on writing the good stuff.
Andreas
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Dori Smith - Re: General problems with this weblog
7/10/2001; 6:52:16 PM (reads: 638, responses: 7)
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I'm having a similar problem, except that I'm using IE/Mac.
In particular, my browser's objecting to the line
<script language="JavaScript" type="text">
which should be
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
Dori
Backup Brain
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Dave Winer - Re: General problems with this weblog
7/10/2001; 9:36:38 PM (reads: 721, responses: 2)
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The designer of the site is Mike Donellan, of Black Hole Brain. Doc should link to his site once in a while so that when issues like this come up Mike will feel appreciated and will fix them quickly. He's such a nice guy he'll probably do it anyway.
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mike - Re: General problems with this weblog
7/11/2001; 2:17:51 AM (reads: 859, responses: 1)
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hey dave & doc & doris!
i'll be happy to do whatever to clean up that code... but i'm not an m.e. on this site, and haven't been, since just after it went live!
gimme access and i'll do my thing!
btw... nice site doc <grin>... and always enjoy your stuff!!! >;]
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Glenn Fleishman - Re: General problems with this weblog
7/11/2001; 11:57:30 AM (reads: 1017, responses: 0)
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Actually, I have had a related problem that forced me to unsubscribe from Doc's log in Radio Userland - the XML he produces on updates forces a full update of the entire page. It puts the whole page into <textitem> or whatever the tag is instead of just each graf or update.
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mike - Re: General problems with this weblog
7/12/2001; 11:33:11 AM (reads: 794, responses: 1)
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dori... this should be fixed now! let me know if you still get errors for that --mike
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Brent Simmons - Re: General problems with this weblog
7/12/2001; 6:03:41 PM (reads: 1208, responses: 1)
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I just fixed the problem Mozilla users had reported, where the body text would be in a very thin vertical strip. It was just a matter of removing an empty width="" attribute from a table cell.
(I'm using Mozilla for OS X -- Fizzilla -- to browse your site at the moment. Looks good now.)
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Dori Smith - Re: General problems with this weblog
7/12/2001; 9:54:29 PM (reads: 893, responses: 0)
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dori... this should be fixed now! let me know if you still get errors for that --mike
No errors now, and thanks!
Dori
Backup Brain
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Geoff Allen - Re: General problems with this weblog
7/13/2001; 4:14:35 PM (reads: 900, responses: 0)
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Looks good (I'm using Mozilla on Linux, and have been a silent sufferer for some time).
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