04 June 2002

Content Finders Sniffing Out Pirates Lockergnome points out Sony fights piracy by enlisting the content-trackers to ferret out the file sharers. Sent aboard Irish Rail at Cherry Orchard from Radio TransNote using Vodafone HSD. ref: 21621

Will MMS Overtake SMS? Will multimedia messaging (MMS) overtake SMS within the next three years? That's the hype in messages from Ericsson. SMS continues its success story. It's been around for about five years, accounted for an estimated 102.9 bn messages sent last year, and that number likely will increase to about 146 bn in 2002, according to Gartner Dataquest. Gartner says SMS will peak at around 168 bn in 2003 before declining. Meanwhile, revenues from mobile messaging are expected to almost double to $22.3 bn by 2006 from $13.4 bn last year. Currently, only SonyEricsson has an MMS-capable handset on the market, but Nokia is set to launch its latest model later this year. Sent from Inchicore aboard Irish Rail by Radio TransNote using eircom ISDN. ref: 26121

Open: Fatwa Against Piracy Feargal McKay reflected that the edict issues against piracy by the Sunni Islam leaders simply makes software piracy against their religion. McKay "grew up believing that not paying a TV licence was a sin, not paying taxes was a sin. Times don't change much, do they?" Sent in Heuston Station Dublin with Radio TransNote and Vodafone HSD. ref: 268

Trawling for Illicit Images I get at least a half dozen unsolicitied porn images into my e-mail in-box every day. Some of these images purport to come from myself. If the Irish police encounter this defense from suspected collectors of child porn, they will need smarter technology to catch the real paedophiles. It wouldn't be hard to arrange for the image copyright monitors to look for this kind of content. Digimarc started this and at least one other California company is in this space as well. Sent aboard Irish Rail with Radio TransNote and Vodafone HSD. ref: 261519

WOD: ablution ablution is the act of washing or cleansing. Sent from Garringreen over eircom ISDN.

PHP Referrer Script SIGHTING: Little Green Footballs runs a sweet script that shows the site's last 50 referrers. Sent from Garringreen over eircom ISDN. ref: 143

Burn CDs from Cassettes I need to convert some of my old cassettes in CDs and there's a MacWorld article that shows how. Sent from Garringreen over eircom ISDN. ref: 350

Managing Content Delivery Networks IBM and Inktomi have teamed up to provide high-bandwidth applications. The companies will help clients build enterprise CDNs (content delivery networks) in which data from various facilities can be delivered to sites across a network, on time and in the right form. Inktomi software running on IBM xSeries servers forms the core of the offering, and IBM will provide systems integration services and in some cases storage gear. I am working on a project that requires the caching of video content in different locations around a network, then changing it over time. This new partnership helps me to ensure the versions are synchronized, available bandwidth is used intelligently, and the end user gets the right quality of service. Part of the optimised service traces to the intelligence of the server-based software. It helps overcome bandwidth constraints without adding more capacity or upgrading routers. Sent from Garringreen over eircom ISDN. ref: 109

Sexiest Female Bloggers Matt Moore: Here are the  nominees for the sexiest female bloggers (in alphabetical order): Amy Langfield - New York Notebook Andrea Harris - Ye Olde Blogge Anna Pickard - little.red.boat Anne Wilson Asparagirl Bitter Girl Dawn Olsen - Up Yours Diane (NMI, NLN) - Letter from Gotham Emily Jones - Give War a Chance Emmanuelle Richard - Emmanuelle.net Eva Campbell - And Another Thing... Eve Tushnet Heather Havrilesky - Rabbit Blog Jane Galt - Live from the WTC Joanne Jacobs - readjacobs.com Kathy Kinsley - On the Third Hand... Katie Granju - Loco Parentis Marie Peze - Karlotta Productions Meg Hourihan - Megnut Meg Pickard - noomeejahoor Missy - Listen Missy Moira Breen - inappropriate response Natalie Solent Natalija Radic - Libertarian Samizdata Raven Wolf - The Randomness of Ravenwolf Rebecca St. Amand - sweat flavored gummi Renatinha Malkes - Balagan Saran Warp Sasha Castel - La Blogatrice Sekimori - Blogatelle Shiloh Bucher - dropscan digest Susanna Cornett - cut on the bias Tanya - red sugar muse Virginia Postrel - The Scene Wild Soda - wildsoda's journal

My Weblog Neighborhood Thanks to Dave Winer, I now now have my own Weblog Neighbourhood And it works from a bookmarklet. Neighborhoods of Jon Udell, Jake Savin, Dave Winer, John Robb, Steven Kroeker, Joseph Ruvel, Scott Greiff, Jeff Cheney, Sam Ruby, Marc Barrot, Lawrence Lee, Jenny Levine.  Sent from Garringreen over eircom ISDN. ref: 143

Everyone Needs a Good NAGGIE Jon Udell: "The raw output of the online news collective is filtered for me by people doing what they do best: spotting patterns, alerting the tribe." Like Ernie the Attorney, I call my News Aggregator my NAGGIE, and it helps me wade through 26 news sources. It's not to be confused with my ZAGGIE, which I'll reveal here in August when I explain how it trawls more than 2600 news sources.