Friday, January 24, 2003

EBay TV This actually looks like it will be fun to watch. Not necessarily on TV but the social interactions between blurring the two medians. Home shopping channel is doing very well and EBay TV could by Reality Television akin to a cross between Jerry Springer and HSN[News.com] 11:21:59 AM    comment []

Maybe its more intelectual capital and less intelectual property. I can see virtual property being traversible digital media information spaces. Howerver shared thoughts and shared understandings that are learnable as apposed to traversable for me is different. We all use our real world navigation skills when finiding our way around digitial media knowledge space. Doc's diagnosis. Lessig Blog writes: 'Doc has a brilliant and absolutely correct diagnosis at the American Open Technology Consortium website about how we lost in Eldred. Copyright is understood to be a form of simple property. The battle in Eldred thus sounded like a battle for and against property. On such a simple scale, it was clear how the majority of the Court would vote. Not because they are conservative, but because they are Americans. We have a (generally sensible) pro-property bias in this culture that makes it extremely hard for people to think critically about the most complicated form of property out there -- what most call "intellectual property." To question property of any form makes you a communist. Yet this is precisely our problem: To make it clear that we are pro-copyright without being extremists either way.' [Universal Rule] 9:43:04 AM    comment []

The Alliance for Digital Progress. Tech giants: No government copy-control mandates.  "A coalition of technology company heavyweights and consumer groups have joined the chorus of voices calling for the U.S. government to stay away from mandating anti-copying schemes on computers."  [via Tomalak's Realm] [jenett.radio] 9:27:46 AM    comment []

Global Unemployment reaches 6% I heard this number on NPR this morning. It is the first time I recall every hearing a global unemployment statistic. I think they said about 6% of the global workforce is unemployed. What is full employment in a global economy? 180m jobless globally. The number of unemployed people in the world reached a record 180 million at the end of last year, 20 million more than at the beginning of 2001 and 80 million more than in 1990, according to the International Labour Organisation. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 9:24:50 AM    comment []