Wednesday, August 14, 2002

Based on surveys of 1,000 U.S. online consumers, Forrester said it sees no evidence of decreased CD buying among frequent digital music consumers and said the record labels could restore industry growth by making it easier for people to find, copy, and pay for music on their own terms.  ZDNet.com Surveys can say almost anything, but the idea that the music companies could help themselves by respecting their customers does not seem too outrageous. 7:44:56 PM

The future is bright. SF Gate: Not a Moment Too Soon. In essence, ChoiceMail's software turns your e-mail box into the equivalent of your front door. If strangers want to enter, they have to knock and identify themselves first. Anyone who won't do that is automatically turned away without you being bothered. [Tomalak's Realm] Hey, email may yet survive. [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog] This might be worth looking into.  I'm using Cloudmark SpamNet and right now it has has about a 20% sucess rate at blocking spam.  On the plus side, it almost has a false positive. 7:30:46 PM

That's where we are headed, to a system where Microsoft doesn't control access to media as much as content controls its own use, and only the content creators get paid. And when it all comes together a decade from now, we'll see that for the very reasons I just described it was inevitable. I, Cringely All the wireless hardware connections he describes sound nice, but I don't think Microsoft is the one that contols access to media.  It's the big copyright holders, who won't allow any of what he is talking about unless they can be assured of total contol of the media at every step of the process. 8:09:05 AM

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