lawrence's notebook
August 30, 2002
802.11b Networking News: "He points out the irony that devices like a tablet newsreader have been predicted for years, but that no one quite figured it wouldn't be a dedicated device, but rather an all-purpose computer."
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August 28, 2002
Another cool Radio update today is with the Instant Messaging enabled Instant Outliner. Jake has posted details about the release on his weblog.
12:50:48 AM
I released a new Radio feature this morning with some help from Jake to add monthly archives to Radio: "This feature lets you maintain monthly archive pages for your Radio weblog. Monthly archive pages contain all of the posts for a given month, so your readers can scan an entire month of posts on a single page."
Example: Here's an archive page for lawrence's notebook with all the posts for August 2002.
12:37:36 AM
August 27, 2002
Kevin Werbach: "Broadband connections at speeds of 10 megabits per second could generate $500 billion per year in economic growth, according to Gartner Dataquest. Predictions like this are useful factoids to support lobbying efforts, just as overblown market projections were once de regeur for startups seeking venture funding."
1:20:09 PM
1:20:09 PM
NY Times: "The esoteric pursuit of measuring who makes the fastest computer chips has turned nasty, with accusations of pressure, conflict of interest and deception."
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August 25, 2002
John Gilmore on .org: "None of the bidders is actually proposing to sell domain name registrations for what they really cost -- which is about 25c per name per year, in the volume that .ORG has (2.5 million registrations)." [Hack the Planet]
6:19:19 PM
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News.Com: "Toshiba said Monday it was working with NEC to propose a new format for next-generation DVDs that would be incompatible with a format proposed by Sony and other industry giants."
6:16:59 PM
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August 23, 2002
PC World: "Sony plans to unveil a DVD drive for personal computers that supports both of the battling formats, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW..."
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August 22, 2002
John Robb: "He mentioned that he had just installed Replay TV. The networking feature Replay provides lets him save programming on a PC with a 560 Gb disk array in another room."
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ComputerWorld: "In recent months, however, vendors such as EMC Corp. and Network Appliance Inc. have begun building ATA drives into storage devices. Now the advent of serial ATA technology is expected to boost data throughput rates from the 100MB/sec. that parallel ATA drives are capable of to 150MB/sec., and eventually to 600MB/sec."
1:00:00 PM
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August 21, 2002
Dan Gillmor: "The word "hypocrite" is grossly insufficient to describe Peter Chernin and his corporate master, Rupert Murdoch, but it'll have to do for now."
Here's a transcript of Peter Chernin's speech at the Center for National Policy in July 2000 on "Beyond Napster."
4:37:37 PM
Kevin Werbach: "Herein lies the conflict between Hollywood and the technology industry in a nutshell. One sees content as the critical resource, and data networks as simply another mechanism to deliver it. The other sees connectivity as the essential factor, with movies being one of many resources that can travel along those connections."
1:46:27 PM
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August 20, 2002
Scott Rosenberg: "What's depressing to realize today is that most of these old discs are not only not terribly interesting but, today, actually inaccessible. The software they depend on to run is no longer part of computer operating systems, or is configured in such a way that it simply won't work with today's systems."
4:42:20 PM
4:42:20 PM
Dan Gillmor: "Don't cede your common sense to busybodies in the middle of the network who will decide what's spam and what isn't."
4:22:44 PM
4:22:44 PM
August 17, 2002
Details on tcp.im ("instant messaging client and server framework for Frontier and Radio UserLand") as demonstrated below.
1:14:26 AM
1:14:26 AM
Hello World! I'm posting via IM!
12:39:38 AM
12:39:38 AM
August 16, 2002
Thanks to Lance, Peter, Brian and Roland for lunch this afternoon. Got a tour of Peer 1's network and co-location facility, E-xact's e-commerce transaction service and shared some ideas about blogging. Awesome stuff.
6:32:05 PM
You can read/listen (MP3) to Lawrence Lessig's keynote at the Open Source Convention from July 24, 2002.
10:05:07 AM
10:05:07 AM
August 15, 2002
There's a new macro out for Radio 8 users: radio.macros.commentOnThisPage. You can now add the comment links found alongside your weblog posts on any other page.
And we recently released another macro to include next/previous links for navigating Radio archive pages.
10:09:00 PM
August 14, 2002
David P. Reed: "I was particulary heartened by Chairman Michael Powell's introductory remarks. Here is a man who really wants to change things in spectrum policy. He brought in Paul Kolodzy, a real technology guy from DARPA, to create a Spectrum Policy Task Force, and Paul has been making things happen in a way that most FCC watchers have never seen before."
4:20:34 PM
4:20:34 PM
Cory Doctorow: "Digital hub projects are exciting, but they're also squarely in Hollywood's cross-hairs. The more your Mac acts like a television device the more your Mac will be subject to regulations that are meant to control "only" digital television devices."
4:19:00 PM
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August 12, 2002
John Robb: "Here's a way to get rid of spam and launch micropayments. Sounds like a job for Paypal. Since most of the work would be just bookkeeping transfers between accounts, it would probably be something they could charge $0.01 a transaction for."
11:23:47 AM
11:23:47 AM
August 8, 2002
Peter Merholz: "Linked: The New Science of Networks, by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, is hands-down the best science book I've read in a while. First off, I find it quite remarkable that a Transylvanian physicist is able to write such a delightfully accessible book."3:44:16 PM
August 5, 2002
Bob Frankston: "Sometimes little things count. Little things can be leverage points or just part of a general malaise or annoyance. It's hard to even get people interested in these issues but at least with SATN I can write about these annoyances that continue to fester. These particular annoyances bedevil programmers and those that depend on software."
10:07:38 PM
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August 3, 2002
Dan Gillmor: "I'm at New Paradigms in Using Computers day at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose. It's the 10th annual event where bright people in the technology and social-science arenas talk about the state of the art of the user interface and what we can do to make it better."
10:21:47 PM
10:21:47 PM
David P. Reed: "The reason I don't work in the security field (despite my recognition of its importance, and my own early work in secure protocols) is that the governments (US and others) made it impossible to do good work. I'm sure that others who might have made contributions, or did make contributions, made the same career decisions."
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August 2, 2002
