02 April 2001

Franchise Earth Wonderfully acid corporatisation spoof from Future feed forward - Earth a Franchise, Astrophysicists Discover. Try also Human Jerky - Taboo-Busting Snack Defines Breakthrough Market Paperback Music Slate's Rob Walker draws an interesting parallel between hardback and paperback books, and CD's and MP3's. MP3's selling for perhaps half the cost of a CD might be released by record companies a while after the CD. You'ld pay your money and take your choice for quality and timeliness. However, the idea doesn't address the record companies primary concern - the copiability of 'their' MP3 once it was out in the wild. On NY Times via Scriting.com But what is a weblog? How much success have you had explaining weblogs to someone that hasn't seem them? It's hard. I tend to think to myself "Well, give them some pointers, and they'll just have to check it out for themselves." Glenn Fleishman has some success here. Via Scriting.com Microsoft Engineers Internet Stock Crash? Do you remember hearing this last summer? Steve Ballmer trashes Net stocks in his public appearances Let's see, there's a motive, there's the opportunity, and a smoking gun... This conspiracy theory from Forbes! 8:25:44 AM