Cheap Trick: RealPlayer Windows Installation

This is essentially a cheap and dirty marketing tactic which creates an illusion of informed acceptance by the user where no such acceptance really exists. I wonder if, in contract land, RealPlayer's tactics would be found unconscionable.

[LawMeme: Legal Bricolage for a Technological Age] 

CNN Europe (1/15/03):  Hollywood snubs digital copyright plans  [via MyFreePress.com] 

Horst Prillinger:  "Joe Jenett seems to think that the sign I passed under the Permanently Closed Door in my office yesterday might actually encourage, rather than discourage, people to knock."

No.  I wasn't thinking that at all.  I was just my giving in to my long-time urge to use Horst's blog name in a pun.  But now that I think of it, perhaps the old sign would encourage people to knock.  But not to worry, there's more from the door and aardvark through the darn thing again... ;~] 

::: ziboy.com ::: Beijing, a "photo blogg" from China  [via Blogging Alone < Rob Dulaney's Radio Weblog]

runme.org - software art repository  [via muxway]

things & stuff, a new weblog from Firda (weblog wannabe) 

>>  This is surely meant to be experienced firsthand...  [Coolstop Daily Pick 1/16/03 via urban collective] 

In my aggregator this morning, I noticed some JavaScript code in an entry pertaining to an article from Slate.  I visited the blog that was linking to Slate and wouldn't you know it -- an advertising pop-up appeared.  It seems that the nice folks at MSN are inserting the pop-up code within the first few paragraphs of the article so if you copy and paste it, you also get the JavaScript and your visitors get the pop-up ad.  That really sucks!

Maybe you should look at your own weblog now and then if you care about such things... 

January 2003

 


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