Tuesday, April 2, 2002
This Steer's Life
Michael Pollan
If I was going to continue to eat red meat, then I owed it to myself, as well as to the animals, to take more responsibility for the invisible but crucial transaction between ourselves and the animals we eat. I'd try to own it, in other words. So this is the biography of my cow.
Digital Copyright Law Under Scrutiny
Scarlet Pruitt
Will the DMCA hold up in its first cases, challenges, and ongoing refinements?
Software for the People
Elana Varon - Q&A with Bonnie Nardi
In too many cases, software that purports to help people collaborate on projects or build relationships, such as collaborative design, workflow and knowledge management, doesn't meet that test...
Copyright holders turn to technology
Patrick Thibodeau
"I think it's a very, very badly conceived idea", said David J. Farber, a professor of telecommunications systems at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a former chief technologist at the FCC. "The result of it would be to essentially emasculate the PC as a useful device."
Wi-Fi's "Cauldron of Innovation"
Amey Stone - Q&A with Dan Farber
Q: Do you see any threats to your vision of Wi-Fi creating a "cauldron of innovation", as you put it?
A: We just need to make sure that people whose business would be helped by Wi-Fi not succeeding aren't allowed to change the rules.
Stock Options: Now You Care?
Bill Mann
Options are abused now because the cost of them appears to be zero. Pay your executives, pay 'em really, really well. But pay 'em in cash and let them buy stock on the open market.
Chart Topper
Jack Schofield
With LBS, you will never get lost, you should be safer and, best of all, from a commercial point of view, you will always be able to find somewhere to buy something specific. But you will also have lost another part of your remaining privacy.
Some interesting links from the article...
- FCC - Enhanced 911 (E911)
- Geography Markup Language (GML)
- Open GIS Consortium
- Microsoft MapPoint Interactive Demo
- 3D City Maps
- GIS directory
The Yellow Menace
Matt Labash
The police could make intersections safer with longer yellow lights. But the city wouldn't make any money that way.
A Practical Guide For Improving Your Memory
Ruth E. Propper, Ph.D.
In the World of Web Logs, Talk is Cheap
Alex Beam
If you've read this far, you may have enough time on your hands to become a blogger yourself.
Ha ha ha, that's hilarious...
N.B., the Boston Globe has an excellent website with one serious failing — most of the links disappear after a few days, so read this column while it's hot!
Instant Outlining, Instant Gratification
Jon Udell
It's been clear to me for a long while that the only thing that might displace email would be some kind of persistent IM. That's exactly what instant outlining is. If it catches on, and it's buzz-worthy enough to do that, we'll have a framework within which to innovate in ways that email never allowed.
Dave Winer
I believe Instant Outlining is to Instant Messaging as the spreadsheet is to a desktop calculator. A calculator can edit one number, a spreadsheet can express relationships between numbers. An Instant Messaging client can transmit a single idea, an Instant Outlining client can express relationships between ideas.
