Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Voluntary Filtering Works for Us (and Us Too) Ed Felten's suggestions for monitoring and filtering what your kids watch totally resonated with me. It's not a hard-core architecture enforced approach, but instead an architecture enabled approach which balances practicality and other lessons you'd like to teach your kids. We already have our kids PC in the family room for the same general reason (but also have the same issue early in the morning!). 6:05:27 PM     trackback []

Friday, September 17, 2004

Kerry and the IP extremists Lawrence Lessig says that Kerry has selected an "IP Czar" that is not (if Kerry is elected) make the our current IP environment get any better. 10:40:58 PM     trackback []

Monday, September 6, 2004

Good summary of Grokster finding Belated link to a good summary of the key points of the MGM v. Grokster ruling. 9:50:40 PM     trackback []

Cuban on Dream Teams Good study of Canadian hockey and how they got to the top on international competitions again. After the weak effort by our Olympic basketball program (yes, it was weak), these are good lessons. 9:50:20 PM     trackback []

Jonathan on competing with Linux Good post by Jonathan Schwartz on competing against Linux. I agree that Sun is a lot stronger when it can focus on another company. I don't necessarily agree that Linux has been the primary source of the company's problems over the last few years. On the other hand it is a big piece of causing the giant business model change that's underway at Sun... 9:50:13 PM     trackback []

Jim Moore on the state of the Dems Interesting post by Jim Moore on the state of the Democratic Party. It matches my impression that the specific Dems we have in front of us right now are consistently running against things or people, not for anything. 9:50:04 PM     trackback []

XM PCR discussion and pointers Good discussion by Jim Moore of XM Radio's short-lived PCR capability, and a number of other implementations you can go get. 9:49:55 PM     trackback []

Gallery of fake trees that disguise cellphone towers Xeni Jardin: Website that collects photos of fake trees that serve to disguise mobile phone signal towers. Some disguises are more convincing than others. Link (Thanks, Alex) [from Boing Boing Blog] 9:49:47 PM     trackback []

del.icio.us Jon Udell on adding metadata tags to posts. Use of both XHTML and del.icio.us. Here's an interesting follow-up. Finally, he builds on this to consider multi-user information routing. 9:49:23 PM     trackback []

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Triangulation Simon Phipps summarizes why the increase in data collection is bigger than it looks. I'm not sure I agree with his paradoxical answer, but I'm also hopeful. 11:16:41 PM     trackback []

Report from Crypto 2004 Ed Felten gives good summary of the excitement at Crypto 2004. Some important algorithms have been shown to have some weaknesses, and it seems like it's a bit a surprise to people. This post tells why the seemingly small breaches are significant. 11:11:57 PM     trackback []

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Microsoft, Dividends and Stock Buybacks Mark Cuban on corporate stock buybacks. One of those things most people never really think through, but should. 11:22:02 PM     trackback []

Competition in the Software Industry Good post by Jonathan Schwartz on the dynamics of the software industry, and users ability to switch among vendors. I'm sure he takes heat from the Linux community on his comments, but the emergence of Red Hat as a company charging high prices for server software are an important indicator that the utopian vision isn't yet a reality... 11:19:20 PM     trackback []

Some NBA Rules This is a truly amazing post by Mark Cuban, rich man and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Ever been confused by a trade (or non-trade) in the NBA? This will make you at least step back and say "Well, maybe I have no clue how this all works". 11:13:27 PM     trackback []

Saturday, July 10, 2004

A "NearWalden" experience for the Internet BookMobile The Internet Bookmobile came to Walden Pond and learned first hand about the conflicting goals for that property. What would Thoreau think? Yesterday (July 8, 2004) I took the Internet Bookmobile to Walden Pond in Concord, Mass. It was the 150th anniversary of H. D. Thoreau's boo k "Walden." The Thoreau Society had a dawn to dusk reading. After an hour of having readers print and take away free copies of "Walden," I was asked by the Walden Pond Reservation police to pack up and leave and threatened with arrest. I left. The park supervisor (Denise Morrissey, 978-369-3254) told me I could not pass out free literature without a permit. And she would not give me a permit because, as she explained, the state park gets money from a concession by the Thoreau Society, which operates a store that sells "Walden"--and I was competing with them by giving away free copies. There is no place to park at Walden Pond except in the state parking lot, for which I paid $5. [via Boing Boing Blog] 9:19:44 PM     trackback []

Wednesday, July 7, 2004

The Future of Weblogs Ben Hammersley outlines how to get your Fedex package status as an RSS feed. As I've written before, I believe that automatically generated blogs are as much of the future of blogging as human-generated ones. 10:45:55 PM     trackback []

Weblog Growth David Sifry tracks the growth of weblogs. Amazing growth curves... 10:38:36 PM     trackback []

MP3's from the Bands Pitchfork Media - with lots of downloads and reviews 10:26:31 PM     trackback []