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Right-thinking on CopyrightCongressman Rick Boucher is for real and one of the few people in Congress who understand copyright well enough to draft intelligent laws (for unintelligent law see: "Berman Proposal A Publicity Stunt.") Boucher is the first sign of Intellectual Property intelligence to show up in DC since 1997. Read on through to the end of Jenny Levine at TSL's post and then contact your Congressman to support this idea.
Boucher To Fight The Good Fight. Rep. Boucher Outlines 'Fair Use' Fight "U.S. Congressman Rick Boucher, moving to strengthen 'fair use' provisions under federal copyright law, said he is introducing a bill that would essentially restrict the record industry from selling copy-protected CDs.... FileMaker Goes XMLFileMaker to push universal information exchange. Upgrade focuses on XML data interchange, app integration [InfoWorld: Top News]How To Think Out LoudIn this post "Jon Udell" takes an example of a quality weblog post and, in his typically cogent fashion, points out some of the most useful products of this activity.I don't always agree with Jon -- sometimes he's so far out in front of the technology that I can't connect -- but I believe his points on the value of effective weblog usage are sound. William Zinsser's Writing to Learn is a classic text on how putting ideas to paper -- in an appropraite fashion -- clarifies thinking. (Sadly, I can't tell that such skills are any longer taught in public schools.) What Dave Winer calls narrating the work is a prime example of this. Jon's other points about the impact of a weblog are equally valid. For any company to succeed at knowledge management -- or have an effective virtual company since they are artifacts of the same process -- there must be an emphasis on getting people to think out loud effectively. Virtual collaboration and knowledge management are not about application training, or technologies, or protocols. They are about getting people to expose their thoughts to one another, and to do so in a way that is both useful and inviting. This does not come naturally to most people. It takes work. It takes guidance. And it takes some encouragement and support -- along with the right technology. But in the end the technology matters little, be it a weblog, a discussion group, or even e-mail. It is the human factors that are most important in trying to build dialogue.
Jeffrey P Shell thinking out loud about Zope. Here's Jeffrey P Shell thinking out loud about a Zope optimization puzzle: [...] Success and the Private RSS FeedGreat heaping gobs of success! I love it when a plan comes together. After many niggling errors and fubars -- caused by a loose nut connected to the keyboard -- I have finally succeeded at How to publish a category to a different FTP server, published that Category into a separate password-protected directory, and managed to get my News Aggregator to suscribe to Private RSS with User Authentication in Radio.Woo Hoo! Big day at the races. This is cool, as it has all sorts of implications for KM apps, client relations, etc. Very nice. Thanks to everyone on the Radio discussion group who helped me over the steep end of the learning curve. Technology Review -- Do Readers Matter and DRMThis article from TR relates to the Do Readers Matter approach to DRM. Clearly to the networks the answer is "only as much as you watch the commercials." Just as the broadcast industry has come to see viewers as lifeless commodities, we should return the favor -- holding no interest in their survival, profitability, or long-term prospects.No argument can be made that the broadcast industry is critical to any national or social interest and people like Kellner deserve a rude awakening to marketplace realities. Their investments are irrelevant, their history of import only to academics, their job base relevant only to the extent it produces something of actual value to the consumer. In Kellner's world networks exist only as a delivery vehicle, transporting the sheep of a viewing audience to the slaughterhouse of advertisers. This model is of questionable value to society -- to the extent that Kellner thinks it should drive legislation it is a detriment. Broadcasters, record companies, and (to a large extent) newspaper and book publishers have grown over enamored with their past success and lost sight of who's in charge. They have lost the sense of serving the customer that all their founders embodied. There are certain technical advantages to, and justifiable uses for, specific DRM protocols and applications, but we should demand they justify themselves in the open market and not tolerate the subversive use of legislation to sustain outmoded, counter-productive business practices.
MIT's Technology Review - Treating Viewers as Criminals. Networks say watching TV without the ads is theft. Will blipverts be next? Udell on Where DRM FitsJon Udell, who worked on O'Reilly's leading-edge Safari digital content store, says ubiquitous DRM is not going to help e-Book sales, or better the market. I have to agree. Continued efforts to create Trusted Computing environments that essentially treat all computer users as criminals will not provide any rational basis for growth, nor will it enhance the computing experience for anyone.To be of value, the e-content has to be as freely usable as a book, not less so. e-Paper is a first step, but one that is still years away...
DRM, active paper, and the future of publishing. Lack of good, ubiquitous DRM is the only thing holding us back from some really cool advances. More than two years ago, Microsoft started making some big bets on e-books... ...[Jon's Radio] Weblogs Are Disruptive TechnologyAnother take on Clayton Christensen's disruptive technology spectrum
Weblogs are to CMSes as pcs are to mainframes. I came across a slightly-too-long but ultimately interesting article called Blogs as Disruptive Tech. The thesis: weblogs are to big, expensive content management systems (CMSes) as the PC was to the IBM mainframe. Very interesting read.[Paul Holbrook's Radio Weblog] Inter-link for Multi-User Weblogs and IntranetsNot sure where this fits. It isn't specific to Radio -- I don't think the Moveable Type TrackBack even works in Radio -- but I wanted to capture the thought about automatically linking certain entries to different logs, i.e. a project team working on customer service systems might want to link to the log kept by the CSRs for problem resolution, etc.
Using MT TrackBack for Cross-functional Team Blogs. e-Bay Seeks PayPal PurchaseInteresting business model -- start out by becoming the world's largest flea market, end up being the world's largest e-commerce banking service. Out of all this may come the only dot.com that belongs in the S&P500.
eBay buys PayPal. $1.5bn in stock[The Register] Taking the Long View on e-BooksJenny Levine at TSL certainly understands e-Books. I've seen a lot of money and effort get poured down the e-book drain in the hysterical hope that some paperless book revolution was going to make everybody rich. As usual both the naysayers and zealots are wrong. Jenny has her feet planted firmly in the middle, which is where we all belong.
Ebooks Don't Need To Fly Off Shelves. E-Books Not Exactly Flying Off The Shelves "But a couple of months ago, BookExpo America 2002 in New York was virtually devoid of e-book chatter. The two-year-old International eBook Award Foundation folded this year due to lack of funding -- and interest. About the only time you hear the topic mentioned in publishing circles these days is when this question comes up: Where have all the e-books gone? Weblog Compendium.Weblog Compendium. Here's an interesting list of tools and weblog-related stuff: the Weblog Compendium. All kinds of stuff, and you can add your own resources. [Paul Holbrook's Radio Weblog]
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