John Robb on Crushing UserLand: "You can tell a list with a high nutjob quotient when you see quotes from Nietsche attached to e-mails from members. Yuk." [We've been down this road before. Dave seems to know this. The thing is, in order to crush UserLand, you must become UserLand at least in a technological sense. That's not as easy as it seems at first (on a number of levels). If I were to quote Nietsche "He who fights with a monster might take care lest he thusly become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Heh.]
NYT: A Boxed Set in One File? Online Music Finds a Way. "They are using zip files, which compress one or more files into a single, easier-to-manage one. Thus 13 songs and the images of a CD cover and booklet can be saved as one file that can be easily downloaded. Fans are loading these zip files on regular music- exchanging services but disguising them as ordinary MP3 audio files.
Peter Paterno, a lawyer who represents Metallica and Dr. Dre, both of whom sued Napster, said he was surprised and angered to hear about the growing use of zip files. He added that downloading these zipped packets of songs could be dangerous, since a virus file could easily be bundled in with the other files. "If I were in charge, I would put viruses everywhere on these services," he said. "That would stop Little Johnny from stealing this stuff." [Paterno does nothing to help his profession's reputation.]
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#932283. "Microsoft Internet Explorer HTML rendering engine contains buffer overflow processing SRC attribute of HTML EMBED directive" [How come CERT doesn't have an RSS feed?]
Russ Lipton: What is Publish and Subscribe?
Dave: Question -- how can you review blogging technology in February 2002 and not cover publish and subscribe?
[I don't understand. Email is a form of subscribe and publish in this context isn't it? Or is the complaint simply that the RSS feed type of publish and subscribe wasn't mentioned? Couldn't one just as easily send out an RSS formatted email with every site update? Why not make this cool and send out a multipart alternative email with text/rss as a part so that the email can be human and machine readable?
Ultimately, I don't see the difference. Why should news aggregation be limited to http? What am I missing?]
Cult of the Cluetrain Manifesto. "Try to find a blog that is ever critical of another blog. I've never seen it. " [Clearly, Dvorak hasn't looked.]
We Blog - No, Really, WE BLOG.
CNotes: Eyes Like A Hawk, Ears Like A Fox. "This jar barely made a sound. How the heck did he know what I was doing??"
ICANN President Calls for More Government Oversight of Internet. "ICANN is in charge of coordinating the Internet's addressing policies, including those for domain names. It has faced questions about its legitimacy from the beginning. Longtime Internet users accuse ICANN of being beholden to corporate interests, while administrators of domain names around the world have refused to recognize ICANN's authority and pay dues."
Neat not always organize TRN 121201. "In general, it is important to learn how to move information between media efficiently, "rather than focusing on a simplistic, and erroneous substitution model that has often been implicit, if not explicit, in much technology research agendas," said Liam Bannon, a professor of computer science and director of the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick in Ireland."
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse. [After reading the Sample Cease and Desist Letter with Analysis that the issues are clearer. Clear enough that I'd have confidence in my own analysis? The synopsis is apparently gone, so it is hard to judge.]
via The Shifted Librarian.
Dave's Koan: "When was the last time you visited a weblog where none of the links were visited?" [Hmmm.]
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