Tuesday, July 30, 2002

Salon: Sour notes. If the industry were smart, it would seize this moment. Instead of trying to hack its customers, it would seduce them with a pitch that goes like this: Getting free music is a dodgy affair -- pay us a little bit, and we'll give you a Napster-like free-for-all. But the music business isn't doing that... [Tomalak's Realm] "Obviously, any market can become a zero-dollar market if the supplier ceases to provide to the demanders what they want -- and there is danger of that occurring here," Sinnreich says. On the other hand, people like music and they're willing to pay for music. But will they pay for something they can get for free? Christopher Allen, an executive at MusicMatch, a company that offers a subscription radio service, answers that question this way: "You can get free coffee at work, but there's a ton of people going to Starbucks." 11:58:12 PM    comment [] Free Site Search Engine -- FreeFind.com Get your free website search engine right here. They do the work, all you have to do is register and point them to your site. "Advanced search and navigation technology can be added to your website in minutes. You'll get high speed, high availability, hosted search technology from the company that pioneered the field. There's nothing to download or install on your server. It's free and easy." Seems like a good deal to me. Does anyone know otherwise? Is there a catch to all this? 11:42:25 PM    comment [] Radio Express! I'd like to point out that I used Radio Express! to catch thes URL for freefind (see post above), along with some text from the site, in midbrowse, and with the click of a button on my Mozilla toolbar, pooted (technical term) it all over into my Radio UserLand edit window. A little formatting, some insipid commentary, and yay!, it's on my blog. Sheer elvish magic, I tell you. 11:38:48 PM    comment [] Dwight D. Eisenhower. "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 11:45:34 AM    comment [] She's Back! Jenny, The Shifted Librarian, is back from vacation and my news aggregator is filling up with her usual insight and, dare I say it, wisdom. I think I'm getting the hang of this bloggy thing, at the very least I'm keeping myself quite amused. I still have some issues with the blogging format itself, as I've previously mentioned. At some point I will add a more "magazine style" front door to this place, with the blogistic component somehow hanging off of that. Will the result still technically be a blog? Some definitions I've read tell me no. That's the neat thing about cyberspace -- it's infinitely maleable. There are many paths, but there is only one Path. In the meantime I'm going to put the back issues of my old e-zine on the site today. Oh, and I'm going to subscribe to more RSS news feeds,  push the needle into the red zone, so I can feel all out of control again -- all will be as it should be. Om Mani Padme Hum.... 11:29:47 AM    comment [] Let the games begin... Attack disables music industry Web site. A denial-of-service attack puts the online home of the Recording Industry Association of America temporarily out of reach after the group backs a bill targeting P2P networks. [CNET News.com] 10:09:49 AM    comment []

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