Wednesday, April 09, 2003

Pure fluff!  B2B Exchanges are due to experience growth in 2003?   If you actually read the detailed reports, you will see much if not all of the so called growth is from transactions over the Internet - which have no relationship to what takes place actually "on" an e-Marketplace.  A transaction delivery model is NOT an e-Marketplace but the marketing people will say it is.  That's silly.  EDI was not an e-Marketplace, and so any other framework that moves business documents over the wire is also NOT an e-Marketplace. 4:41:02 PM    comment []

Gordon Brown, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, continues the socialist onslaught on the "family" unit by increasing the benefit to single parents! Hardly any point bothering to report this now because a) too many people who "get it" don't care and are apathetic to the issues anyway; b) those that do bother to respond are like-minded brain washed or daft socialists anyway; and c) their is no chance to change things as its out of fashion to be good to the family unit "because we (?) have moved on". 3:18:00 PM    comment []

Harvard Business School article: Peer-to-Peer: Has the music stopped?   The quote being, "Peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa threaten the life—or at least the competitiveness—of the recording industry, many would agree. "  This is total toilet!  Its like saying dinosaurs are a threat to the competitiveness of herbivores - so lets ban them.  Duh.  The "recording industry" is there only in the first place to meet the needs of sellers (musicians) and buyers (consumers).  If the model changes that matches one to the other, they (the so called "industry") should change with it - or die!  What utter tomfoolery this is.  If we keep protecting every aspect of an industry that is made irrelevant through evolution, we will end up with a house of cards that will eventually fall under its own weight.  Who on this planet are we kidding here! 9:11:36 AM    comment []

Newsfactor Network article: Tech Firms Collaborate on Big Bang Experiment On the largest Peer-to-Peer network ever - Openlab, to be built to process millions of gigabytes, or petabytes, through thousands of distributed physacists around the globe.  But what happens when the particle accelerator accelerates, creates particles that were supposed to exist just after the big bang, and those very same particels "live" and continue to live as if the big bang had just ended?  What happens if they then repeat their life cycle that might end up as some other event or process that upsets the balance of today, which is very much post-big bang?  Another science fiction story in the making here.... 9:05:23 AM    comment []

Article in the New York Times: Asian Officials Say SARS May Be Here to Stay. Grim reading as if in a science fiction story; can't track virus; looks like contanimated objects can pass it on; maybe insects can also.  You can bet bookstores across the world will see increases in sales on "hot zone" virus titles! 8:51:38 AM    comment []