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Monday, October 21, 2002
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The craziness with online broadcasters continues. The rates are still far greater than for radio and, as many others have pointed out, this appears to be more of a control issue with the music industry (big music that is) than anything else.
http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2002/10/21/webcasters/index.html
There is an amazingly dense mesh of middlemen between the musicians, composers and lyricists and the public. The former tend to get well under $2 per CD for something that costs about fifty cents to manufacture and the public pays quite a bit more than that. At some point this inefficiency will be made right, but the music industry will fight tooth and claw (just like the telecom industry and a few others). In the end it is probably inevitable that a $15B industry will deflate to well under $5B.
2:41:56 PM 
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A new type of pen that looks interesting. It may help if conventional pens are painful, but I haven't tried one yet and can't make a first hand recommendation.
http://www.penagain.com/howitworks.shtml
12:20:18 PM
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John Perry Barlow has never been short on words, but he has outdone himself with a condemnation of George W. Bush et. al. Barlow is anything but a liberal and seeing this level of rage from him is interesting.
http://www.xeni.net/images/boingboing/barlowfriendz_88_pox_americana.htm
I do worry that a mainstream or even a liberal movement against imperialism hasn't emerged yet. The far left wing management of the current movement can only cut its credibility.
6:28:02 AM
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While on the subject of minority causes it is interesting to note a major Infoworld section on Apple.
http://www.infoworld.com/features/feapple.html
By some measures OS X is more robust than XP and it certainly moves you out of the crosshairs of the scriptkiddies.
6:27:10 AM
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