Month: March 2005
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technology, utility, the chasm, and the long-tail
There are two ideas out and about concerning the progression of a technology to adoption, and the consumption of something that has already been adopted. The first, the adoption chasm, is about there being a chasm between early adopters and mass consumption. There is a book. The second, the long-tail, is about there being nearly…
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Baseball, round two
The guy who is in charge of the World Anti-Doping Agency doesn’t like American pro-sports league’s policies on drugs [story here (http://http/slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Baseball/MLB/2005/03/18/965642-ap.html)] [ link broken, no archive ] Why does this guy think that his agency’s rules for amateur athletics matter for professional sports-entertainment? Why do people not understand that the fan experience is more…
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sport, steroids, and the sovereign
Maybe I haven’t been paying attention, but I’m still trying to figure out how we got here. What is the compelling interest of Congress in the internal efforts of a professional entertainment industry’s attempts to regulate performance enhancement on the part of it’s entertainers? What is it that makes it a Congressional issue? No one…
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hyperbole or creative?
Being a sneaky, go where you aren’t supposed to, cracker, the kind of thing that most people think of when you say “hacker”, is pretty damn hard. There are two kinds – those who get caught and those who don’t. The ones that you should be afraid of are the ones who have come and…
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down with beige
beige = consensus-building. beige is why industries wither up and die. beige is why there aren’t enough madmen in the city when the barbarians are at the gate to fight them off. beige is lukewarm and mediocre and it is emblematic of death
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google versus del.icio.us
ok, I knew this would happen eventually, and it just did. I found better results to what I was looking for using http://del.icio.us/tag/REST than using Google to search for “REST” ( http://www.google.com/search?q=”REST” ). (I was looking for articles about REST – Representational State Transfer – a way of using existing web infrastructure to do more,…
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the virtues of software distribution
I just have to smile whenever I use an on-line software distribution system that “just works” to install or update a tool. CPAN, gems, darwinports, apt – these are things of beauty and I just love how something as simple as sudo gem update rails makes my life better. No big heavy expedition to the…
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AOL is arrogant AND stupid
ok, it looks like someone Ben Stanfield of MacSlash [ archive.org ] actually read the AOL Instant Messenger Terms Of Service and he blogged what he found [ archive.org ]. They basically say that they own every thing you type into an AIM message, and they you have no rights to it whatsoever, and specifically…
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who watches the watchmen?
This article is over in the new (to me) Policy DevCenter at O’Reilly: O’Reilly Network: Protect Your OSP with logfinder It references a new white paper put out by the EFF to aid system admins in finding log files on their systems with the idea that you can’t be bothered by the Feds serving you…
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fatwa issued against bin Laden
A Spanish clerical council issued a religious decree today, the anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, saying Osama bin Laden has forsaken Islam. Neither it, nor the anniversary of the bombings, made the top stories on NBC News. Will this free other moderate clerics to doing the same? Will this open the door for Iraqi…