Thursday, March 30, 2006

Reblogged: Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts released with CC license.. Brian Eno and David Byrne released My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in 1981. It's a great album--and now it's available with a Creative Commons License. "This is the first time complete and total access to original tracks with remix and sampling possibilities have been officially offered on line." [MetaFilter] 8:56:30 PM

The Computer and the 21st Century Some people have speculated that I'm going to stop blogging on Saturday, which is the 9th anniversary of Scripting News (also Apple's 30th). I don't plan to, although Murphy's Law says anything that can go wrong will go wrong. My plan is to stop as soon as the end of this year, maybe earlier. I want to get some things done first. And in the meantime, I've been getting some intriguing offers now that people know there's an end to this weblog. I like that very much. Marc Canter wishes the software industry would clone the ideas that were in Radio 8, which shipped over four years ago, and speaks as if I had already retired. Not true. And the codebase of Radio 8 is largely GPL now (we could probably GPL the rest of it, need-be). I want to build a developer community around it. Marc, how about we work together, instead of giving up, let's show em how it's done! There's still time, Murphy-willing. [Scripting News] 8:21:52 PM

'JPod' 'Microserfs' author looks at Google generation. In "JPod," Douglas Coupland takes his characteristic skepticism to this year's crop of oppressed tech workers. [CNET News.com] --- Where "Microserfs" dealt with the struggles of a group of Microsoft employees trying to break free from the staid and clinical existence in the Redmond, Wash., campus and create their own start-up, "JPod" looks at the lives of tech workers today, making their way uncertainly through the global pillaging of intellectual property, the clueless thrashings of boneheaded marketing staff, the rise of China, and the ashes of the 1990s high-tech, high-rolling dream. --- 6:48:14 PM