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Mardi 26 mars 2002 |
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Un cadeau Tiens, je vous fais un cadeau. Et ne me remerciez pas, car le cadeau, en réalité, ce n'est pas moi qui vous le fait. Remerciez plutôt Jean-Sébastien Marsan, un journaliste que je respecte et admire, pour son magnifique carnet de signets ainsi que son répertoire de verbes pour citations, un outil "caïman" obligatoire pour quiconque écrivaille. Un incontournable. Merci JSM. 8:20:03 PM Permalien |
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Industrie en crise
Eisner is dangerously out on a limb. Napster wasn't a narrow thing. There were tens of millions of users. It was a cultural phenomenon, unlike anything Hollywood has ever manufactured. People know what nirvana looks like, we got a great demo, and that's what we want. Forbes reports that Eisner made over $700 million in five years as Disney's CEO. Where does it stop? He's 59 years old. How much money does he want? Music is important, not just for its monetary value. The philosophy of cynics is that there is no magic to music. Too bad for them, but music does have healing powers. If you think about it, it's like Don's Amazing Puzzle, so obvious, you have to work not to see it. Have you ever listened to a song from childhood and gotten goosebumps? Where does that music take you? Deep inside yourself, to places normal existence can't easily reach. The feelings, for me, are pleasure and relaxation. I feel it physically. The music I was getting from Napster is stuff that Eisner's distribution system doesn't carry dammit. Being able to walk through my past over the Internet, through music, is a kind of therapy I want to share with everyone. Music has unique power to heal. So what's in the way of this experience? A few people who are worth hundreds of millions of dollars and want more. Yuck. The irony of it is, if they would get behind this instead of fighting it, they'd probably be able to milk it for even more money than the old distribution system. I never liked buying music in a store. I really would like to buy music on the Internet. Really. How much money? How many ways are there to spend money that bring happiness? Not that many Michael. Pour une fois, rien à rajouter aux propos de Dave. 4:42:12 PM Permalien |
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Et toc! pour le complot et la conspiration. Et toc! pour le Réseau Voltaire. "Ce qui me fâche là-dedans? Tout. Mais d'abord que la connerie de ces illuminés soit évidemment récupérée par le système pour discréditer ses opposants. C'est toute la gauche, tous les écolos, tous les antimondialisation qui sont éclaboussés aujourd'hui par cette merde hallucinée." Du Foglia en grande forme. La suite ici... 10:06:34 AM Permalien |
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L'inventeur du néologisme courriel? Fureteur? Inforoutes? Jean-Yves. Jean-Yves pointe vers Blogue, que je déteste (le mot, pas le gars, lui je le trouve sympa). Malheureusement chère Grenouille, je me dois de te corriger un tantinet: le néologisme "courriel" à été "inventé" par Jean-Claude Guédon et non pas l'Office de la langue française. Tout comme "fureteur" a été concocté par Jean-Pierre Cloutier, le cybérien. Quand à "Inforoutes", c'est de Michel Cartier. Rendons à César... 9:38:38 AM Permalien |
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Windows XP? Ne partez pas sans ce logiciel Registry Crash Protection Ce progiciel a contribué à me sauver beaucoup de temps et d'énergie. Et il est disponible pour toutes les déclinaisons de Windows (95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 et XP) 8:55:26 AM Permalien |
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Mac OS XI? osOpinion offers its top 10 wish list for OS X. Ten Mac OS X Suggestions for 2002. Among other things, Apple needs to reestablish itself as a usability pioneer. This means exploring new metaphors for browsing, collecting, recalling and exchanging information, as well as providing for user- and developer-customizable views on file system and other types of data. [osOpinion] [Mac Net Journal] Si Cupertino décide que ces suggestions soient intégrées au Mac OS X, alors l'oncle Bill aura une raison de plus de faire des cauchemars si la rumeur voulant que le Mac OS soit porté sur PC est vraie. Déjà que le monde du Pingouin commence à perdre quelques uns de ses supporters en faveur du Mac OS. 8:26:10 AM Permalien |
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Client ou voleur? Oops, I thought I had posted Dan Gillmor's excellent article Bleak Future Looms if You Don't Take a Stand, but apparently I haven't. Here you go.
I think I've bought my last CD, too. At least, pretty close to it. This past weekend I was thinking about the last time I bought a CD. I think I bought one in January, and that's a record for me. Even just a year ago I was buying a couple each month. Now... zero. And it's because I'm tired of paying $15 for whole albums that I won't listen to. I want to pick and choose my songs (much like I want to pick and choose my news), and I'm tired of paying so much for an entire album. Enough is enough. On a tangential note, I had forgotten what a great album De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising is. Maybe I'll be back if the music industry releases something as good as that for $10. Quoi qu'il en soit, l'industrie québécoise devrait lire cet article de Gillmor. 8:11:14 AM Permalien |
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Remerciements pour faveurs obtenus Mille croassements à la Grenouille pour ses conseils dans la restauration de mes données Radio. Un conseil, n'oubliez pas d'activer la fonction de sauvegarde de données dans vos préférences. 7:44:24 AM Permalien |
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ICQ 2002a 5.33 build 3722 Une nouvelle déclinaison d'ICQ. Une version qui a de meilleures dispositions pour les utilisateurs derrière un mur coupe-feu. 7:32:51 AM Permalien |
