Monday, September 6, 2004

Technology outside of IT Jonathan Schwartz has an interesting point about the movement of technology decisions and trends outside of IT, using cell phones and search engines as examples. 9:51:00 PM     trackback []

Kerry and the Patriot Act Dave Winer writes: From For your consideration: Why isn't the USA Patriot Act being discussed in this election? Are we supposed to assume that if Kerry is elected he will withdraw executive branch support for that? Who will be Kerry's attorney general? We know it won't be Ashcroft. Why don't they ever tell us who their key people will be? Interesting question. I always assumed that Kerry (if elected) would back off of a lot of that stuff until I read an article in October's Reason magazine (not on-line yet) that discussed Kerry's long-standing positions in this space. Through the nineties he and Ashcroft were on opposite sides of many of these issues, but with Ashcroft taking the more civil libertarian viewpoint. Apparently his 1997 book The New War: The Web of Crime that Threatens America's Security gives a good view of how he feels. 9:50:53 PM     trackback []

Wikipedia - trustworthy? Good note by Ross Mayfield about the trustworthiness of Wikipedia. In some ways it parallels the relationship of the traditional press to bloggers..... 9:50:46 PM     trackback []

Good summary of Grokster finding Belated link to a good summary of the key points of the MGM v. Grokster ruling. 9:50:40 PM     trackback []

Cuban on Dream Teams Good study of Canadian hockey and how they got to the top on international competitions again. After the weak effort by our Olympic basketball program (yes, it was weak), these are good lessons. 9:50:20 PM     trackback []

Jonathan on competing with Linux Good post by Jonathan Schwartz on competing against Linux. I agree that Sun is a lot stronger when it can focus on another company. I don't necessarily agree that Linux has been the primary source of the company's problems over the last few years. On the other hand it is a big piece of causing the giant business model change that's underway at Sun... 9:50:13 PM     trackback []

Jim Moore on the state of the Dems Interesting post by Jim Moore on the state of the Democratic Party. It matches my impression that the specific Dems we have in front of us right now are consistently running against things or people, not for anything. 9:50:04 PM     trackback []

XM PCR discussion and pointers Good discussion by Jim Moore of XM Radio's short-lived PCR capability, and a number of other implementations you can go get. 9:49:55 PM     trackback []

Gallery of fake trees that disguise cellphone towers Xeni Jardin: Website that collects photos of fake trees that serve to disguise mobile phone signal towers. Some disguises are more convincing than others. Link (Thanks, Alex) [from Boing Boing Blog] 9:49:47 PM     trackback []

Mark Cuban tirade Nice tirade by Mark Cuban. The more I read from this guy the more I respect his candor and honest intellectual approach. 9:49:36 PM     trackback []

del.icio.us Jon Udell on adding metadata tags to posts. Use of both XHTML and del.icio.us. Here's an interesting follow-up. Finally, he builds on this to consider multi-user information routing. 9:49:23 PM     trackback []