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Thursday, February 07, 2002 |
Holy statistics, Batman! I'm at the top of today's Userland's Ranking by Page Reads! Whoo-hoo! I don't know how or why, but if this is your first stop here, thanks for coming by! Unfortunately, I'm going out of town now. Sigh. Please come back though for more exciting content, same bat time, same bat channel. Just a different day.
Oh, and PS - if you sent me email and you're waiting to hear back from me, you will. Probably this weekend. Thanks for your patience. Ciao.
4:46:51 PM Permanent link here
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Can't... stop... blogging.... But I r-e-a-l-l-y have to go now. I hope these links tide you over, because I probably won't be able to blog anything until Saturday.
Blogging is very addictive. When I did the LSdJ, I used to be able to comfortably take off a day or a week and not worry about what I was missing. Maybe that's partially due to the explosion of content since those early days, but I'm really going to miss my Radio News Aggregator tonight and tomorrow. Sniff, sniff. I'll be back soon, little guy.
Okay, must go halfway across the State now. Have a good one.
4:39:41 PM Permanent link here
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Study: Mobile Payments Set to Soar. "The study predicts that 118 million Western European and 145 users in the Asia-Pacific region will purchase low-cost mobile premium content by 2005. That dwarfs the report's estimate of 22 million such users in North America. The largest portion of those mobile payments will be for content-related services that cost less than $10 each, which are called micropayments, such as ring-tones for phones or other premium content, the report says. Wireless operators are better suited for such payments than banks and other financial institutions." [at allNetDevices Wireless News]
The sad thing is that all of that content still has to be organized, and I'll bet there isn't a single company working on this that has a librarian on the job.
4:27:42 PM Permanent link here
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Glimpse of the future "In an age when movie musicals are mostly children's cartoons, Baz Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge" brilliantly reinvents the genre and opens the door to a new cinematic style. So why didn't the critics get it?" [at Salon.com]
Without having read the full article yet, I agree with the blurb. I loved Moulin Rouge and bought it on DVD so that I relive the finer points of "Like a Virgin" and "Roxanne." I like the beat and could dance to it - I give it a 95!
4:21:05 PM Permanent link here
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The Blue Marble "This spectacular “blue marble” image is the most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet." [via MeFi]
4:13:52 PM Permanent link here
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Bruce Levine @ 02/07/2002 04:50 PM. "Jenny, we have the "ALF" beach song on flexi disc. It came with the surfer Alf at, I think, Burger King. We may have one or two other flexis in my basement. The all time best Flexi was REM covering "Dark Globe" by Syd Barrett (Post LSD Breakdown) given away in the late, lamented "Sassy" magazine."
It's even more perfect that it's an ALF flexi disc! My day is complete.
4:10:03 PM Permanent link here
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Rush hates TiVoRush "Rush Limbaugh has been taking too many hits off the paranoia bong and has decided that TiVo is an enemy of free people.... My favorite part is that he picked Hollings to pick on, despite the fact that Fritz is responsible for the SSSCA, and is therefore a Real and True Enemy of Free People and technology." [bOing bOing]
2:59:18 PM Permanent link here
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I have to leave soon because I'm going out of town overnight, so I'm just going to post links to some stuff. Sorry I don't have time to comment on them right now. First up:
You Can Surf, but You Can't Hide. "Software can already tell your friends when you log on or off. Now, "presence awareness" capabilities are being designed into other devices. Is this technology helpful or creepy?" [at NY Times]
2:56:23 PM Permanent link here
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Here's one perspective of The Lowdown on mLife. I can't decide if I should be glad that AT&T is trying or if I should be disheartened that they're running such a poor marketing campaign. I got this link via Alan Reiter's post AT&T's mLife: Yawn, which pretty much mirrors my thoughts.
12:53:42 PM Permanent link here
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Even though it won't be up for very long, I'll still point to this Chicago Tribune story explaining why the Olympic Games Won't Be Streaming onto the Web. [via Lockergnome] "The IOC's stance is an aberration at a time when sports leagues are increasingly turning to the Web as an alternative --and revenue-generating -- outlet for audio and video. Major league baseball sells subscriptions to a full season of games on Web radio, for example.'There are two main reasons,' said Stephane Kanah, Internet manager for the IOC. 'Today, there is not sufficient bandwidth or quality to show the emotions and to be able to view the competition properly.'"
Ahem. Again, feel free to laugh that they would even be quoted saying this.
" 'And most importantly, in order to protect our broadcasters' rights, especially those who are not broadcasting the games live ... we have restricted live videos until there is a technology that allows us to restrict access to videos [geographically].' "
Ding, ding, ding - it's all about the money.
"If viewers can get their fill of bobsledding or snowboarding races from a Web site, ratings and advertising revenue will drop. Broadcasters will bid less for the rights to the next Olympics, generating less money for the Games."
Isn't that a contradiction? Are they saying that it's possible for me to get my fill of bobsledding over the Web, but wait, not the "emotions," so I can't really get me fill. Right? Er. Um. I'm confused. Like you didn't see this coming: IOC = not shifted.
12:36:06 PM Permanent link here
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U.S. votes on MS-DoJ deal: 15,000 against, 7,500 for "Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice have taken the judge's hint and confirmed that they'll consider changes to the proposed antitrust settlement, following public comment received on it. This seems to have resulted in a straight two to one win for those opposed -- 15,000 comments against, 7,500 for. Apparently another 7,000 or thereabouts were junked as opinion, along the lines of "I hate Microsoft." Still some kind of barometer of the public mood though, we'd say."
"They now have to gamble. The current deal is just about the maximum Microsoft would accept, and the minimum the DoJ thought it could get away with. Both parties may now be calculating that while it's something the two of them can live with, it's not actually going to play with the public or the judges. So they may have to return to the negotiating table, although this time they'll be on the same side trying to second-guess the bare minimum they can both get away with." [at NewsForge]
Insert your own joke here, or just laugh.
12:09:23 PM Permanent link here
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I have theories about web services, but I don't know if they're right. After all, they are based purely on brief statements I've read in other people's blogs. I guess I should really look into this in more detail, and I suppose the Web Services site is about a good a place to start as any. Oh-oh... they have an RSS feed. Maybe the address of your RSS feed will end up on your business card, eh?
Does anyone have pointers to a WS 101 article or site?
12:05:00 PM Permanent link here
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SitePoint has an article about how to Create a Content Feed for a MySQL/PHP-driven Web site. I don't happen to have a MySQL/PHP-driven Web site handy at the moment so this doesn't help me very much, but I'm wondering if Mr. Andy can translate this into msql and Perl. What say ye, sir?
At the bottom of the second page is a screenshot of how the feed winds up looking in a browser. THAT's what I want to do for Illinois Library Systems across the State. Can I make it happen with Frontier and/or Radio automatically generating the feeds? I still don't know yet.
11:46:38 AM Permanent link here
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$1 films spook Hollywood. "Like Napster before it, the site is more than just an everyday pirate Web site: It's a commercial video-on-demand service that's comprehensive and easy to use. And it works. With the studios' film services still in development, that's a dangerous combination of features....'There's a law of diminishing returns in terms of pursuing and prosecuting these things overseas,' said Aram Sinnreich, a Jupiter Media Metrix analyst. 'It's a lamentable situation for studios, but I think the best thing they can do is develop their own legal alternative to draw people.' " [at News.com]
Here's an article about the impact of the Movie88 streaming video site in Taiwan that I mentioned a few days ago. Notice that the MPAA folks talk about taking the site down, while the JMM guy recognizes that the studios have to grow the grass on their own side of the fence instead. When are they going to "get it" and shift? Probably too late. Shhh - did you hear that? It was the roar of a dinosaur.
9:35:54 AM Permanent link here
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