Tuesday, May 14, 2002
Blogging and Realism
Dan Gillmor
Steven Levy's piece on blogging is a good addition to the growing discussion of the genre. Dave calls it paranoid. He's wrong. This essay is not about us-versus-them; it's a lot more subtle than that.
Is Linux Infrastructure? Or Is it Deeper than that?
Doc Searls
The commercial infrastructure we call "the commons" depends on something deeper that Hollywood still doesn't understand. Linux and the Net are both part of it. Let's call it "innerstructure".
Marker Pens, Sticky Tape Crack Music CD Protection
John Leyden
Music disc copyright protection schemes such a Cactus Data Shield 100/200 and KeyAudio can be circumvented using tools as basic as marker pens and electrical tape, crackers have discovered.
Another Run to a Deep-Link Suit
Declan McCullagh
A prominent publishing house demands a specialty site drop a link to a print-version of an article on an ad-less page within its website.
A Sour Note for Mac Users
Andy Patrizio
New copy protection technology designed to prevent the pirating of music CDs is doing that, all right. It's also causing Apple computers to crash and making a lot of people very upset.
A New Kind of Science
For more detail, check here.
- Stephen Wolfram
- Steven Levy - The Man Who Cracked The Code to Everything...
- David Appell - The next Newton?
- Wolfram publishes A New Kind of Science
- Interviews and Publications about Stephen Wolfram
- Jim Holt - Transcending Equations
- Marcus Chown - Principia Mathematica III
- Michael S. Malone - God, Stephen Wolfram, and Everything Else
Apple 'Bundle' Creates a Rumble
Farhad Manjoo
Apple's new instant-messaging client, iChat, received mixed reviews when it was announced last week. Is Apple fostering the same type of forced bundling that helped get Microsoft in so much trouble?
Mac Net Journal
I am fully aware that, as Dave Winer pointed out last week on Scripting News, bundling happens. My comments last week were meant simply to point out a parallel in the computer business that most Apple fans hate to admit: When it comes to business, there are many similarities between Apple and Microsoft. There are also many differences, which is the reason I use Macs and I have published this Web site for the last few years.
Piracy: The Star Wars Solution
Brad King
Digital piracy might be running wild, but thanks to big-budget films with larger-than-life special effects like Attack of the Clones, people are still going to the movies.
