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 Wednesday, February 26, 2003
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I love goin' a'googlin' and finding a treasure trove. This is one reason I do no think that a power law view of weblogs has a lot of relevancy. If someone is talking about important stuff, it is really easy for one of the top webloggers to find them and link, thus moving them up the curve. I went out and ran across some very good articles on a range of topics that, nonetheless, fit right into what I am doing. they are: Power Laws, Blogs, Newspapers and Movies
Emergent Democracy
Leader-Follower 2:16:58 PM 
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Consumer confidence at 10-year low. NEW YORK -- Consumer confidence plunged in February to its lowest level in nearly 10 years, dragged down by the weak job market and the prospect of war with Iraq. [Business]
Great. Not only am I out of work during the worst economy in 30 years, but even those with jobs are bummed out. I started listening to KIRO-AM a few years ago because my favorite music stations only played crap. I stopped listening to KIRO-AM recently because it seems to have less and less news (they will no longer be carrying the Mariners), and its talk show hosts are really starting to pander to the lowest levels in order to get ratings (nothing against that. It is a business model, just as pimping is, but I do not have to participate.) So I switched to NPR. But I may just have stop. I keep hearing reports about no one hiring in the second quarter, the recovery is never coming, etc. I mean the conservatives are pissed and the liberals are depressed. I guess I will just have to load up on 'happy' Motown, Beatles and Album rock CDs to listen to, while I wait for a more creative time. 11:10:21 AM
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Is the fall in CD sales all to do with "piracy"?. Business Week doesn't think so [Robert Paterson's Radio Weblog]
As this article demonstrates, piracy has very little to do with the 5% decline in revenues. Perhaps a 15% decline in new material has something to do with it. In most industries, if you have less to sell, you will see a decline in sales. But the record company's perspectives, the decline is entirely due to shoplifters. Let's hope some of the paid legistlators for Big Media start to look at these numbers. Or at least that someone in power does. 10:55:02 AM
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100th subscription. It's official:
Rogue Semiotics is now my 100th RSS subscription.
And to think I was complaining back when I only had about 30!
Do I get a telegram from anyone now that I've reached 100? [Curiouser and curiouser!]
I have been hovering around 120 for some time now. I wonder if I should go exploring some time soon for some more? 10:45:50 AM
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Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon was issued a patent yesterday pertaining to discussion group software. [Scripting News]
The USPTO just continues to drop the ball when it comes to high tech patents. How do you patent discussion groups? How is this not just a trivial extension of what has been done before? I guess that is why we have so many lawyers and why patent law and IP is such a growth industry. 10:43:20 AM
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I have just about transitioned everything over to my Pismo laptop as my main computer. My old Beige G3 will be slowly retired as I move away from anything that still needs SCSI. I do want to find a nice job for it, since it has been almost a valuable as to me as my original 128K Mac (which I still, which still runs and which my wife refuses to allow living room space to display). 10:36:04 AM
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Well, writing for Living Code is quite a bit of fun. I hope it does not take too much away from this web log also. Time will tell. 10:33:12 AM
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