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We were talking in #joiito about wanting to play music for each other, but not being able to just post urls to our mp3's for fear of vexatious prosecution.So here's my initial straw man suggestion for how to do this.1. create a new playist format that refers to songs by a canonical naming scheme - MusicBrainz has a good starting point. These get put in URI's that look something like:songid:66fea472-0093-4764-a574-7ef87ade4433?artistid=d1601842-8052-4ac1-81ef-67e8259250dd&artist=Shannon%20Campbell%20and%20Scott%20Andrew%20LePera&title=Nothing%20NewHow...

Bill Rosenblatt : The DRM industry should hope that the ISPs lose. If they do, then that means that ISPs do not have a free pass around liability for their treatment of content, and therefore that they should be proactively offering DRM services, both to protect themselves legally and as a source of incremental revenue from copyright owners. If the ISPs continue to win these cases, then a major...

Glenn Reynolds, assorted Slashdotters and Peter Lewis at Fortune are speculating on whether Ansel Adams would have used digital cameras.As I worked on the first official release of Ansel Adams images in digital form - the Ansel Adams screensaver - I feel somewhat qualified to pontificate on this.What everyone is missing is that it is not a question of resolution, but of dynamic range.With film the...

Down on the right is my del.icio.us linkblog. Its a bookmark replacement, and a place to find great links, as you can see other people's links and categories t...

Steve Jensen Jenson: I came up with an idea on the train recently that might be useful here: If you're given the right bytes and told where they should go, you can construct the right document. HTTP does have semantics for giving you bytes and where they should go. Steve, there is an existing HTML RFC for sending diffs that is perfectly suited to this - RFC3229. I mentioned this when it came out in...

Although the economic argument is more powerful - that DRM destroys value for customers and hence will be shunned by them - the technical argument is strong too.This rests on one of the fundamental pillars of Computer Science - the Church Turing Thesis that states that any computer can emulate any other. When this is combined with the continual improvement in computing power available, it means we...

Tim Oren takes me to task for saying Dave invented outlining. Now I could go on about the long history of simultaneous or convergent invention in history, but I won't, I'll just say this.Tim - you're in VC. You should know the difference between a demo and a produ...

Doc:The stupidest conceit of the software business is that commodities are bad. If it weren't for commodities, we wouldn't have civilization. Or food.There's plenty of money to be made in - and on (or choose any other preposition) - commodities. You just have to think smart about the stupid stuff. Is it that hard? Commodities are great - to paraphrase something Clayton Christensen said - once your...

Comment on Sharing and Stealing - Jessica LitmanIt is a great essay until this paragraph:: The key to the opt-out mechanism I propose is the selection of a single digital file format or family of formats capable of conveying copyright management information as defined in section 1202 of the copyright act. The format will probably incorporate digital rights management capability because the people...

Last week Dave Sifry and I met up with Dave Winer and Steve Gillmor at Technorati to share ideas. We talked about the public resource that Dave W created in weblogs.com, about Technorati, and about Dave's new idea to help people categorize blog postings and the things they link to.Dave W said: I feel we're at a turning point in the weblog world, either we're going to be like every other hierarchy...

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One fascinating thing about Technorati is how many blogs are showing up in languages other than English. One of the highest on the the Top 100 is an Iranian blog, which is a great thing.However, I look at blogs like this and feel like Ginger in Gary Larson's classic What Dogs Hear.'squiggle squiggle squiggle Blog squiggle squiggle squiggle Permalink'...

Tracey Meyers wins the most errors in the shortest amount of text award this week: "So sue me" stated young Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen last week after he posted a program to crack iTunes air-tight security.Johansen posted the program called "QTFairUse", with the previously mentioned quote, on his own website. The free software has the uncanny ability to sidestep iTunes anti-copying software,...

Rosie and Andrew were shocked by the betrayal on Survivor last week when Rupert was thrown off that they asked me to set up a website for him. Here it is:Donate to Rupert - the True SurvivorAndrew drew the picture. He made a t-shirt t...

Trolls, are all the rage in some quarters. We're told that trolls will evolve into a unique source of information and are sure to become the future of journalism. Well, hardly. Two things are happening to prevent such a future: The first is wholesale abandonment of troll sites, and the second is the casual co-opting of the troll universe by Big Media.Let's start with abandoned trolls. Thanks to busy...

crw from #joiito pointed me to Chris Phoenix's extension to three of Jane Jacob's two moralities:According to Jane Jacobs, the Commercial and Guardian systems each have developed a distinct and identifiable set of ethics. You will be able to identify these ethics in governments, police departments, and a variety of commercial organizations. The Information ethics, and this table, are a synthesis of...

Greg Costikyan on 3D worlds and games:Supposedly, virtual worlds will eventually be our interface for everything online, a far friendlier and more fun and "easier" interface than, say, eBay. This is, when you think about it, a crock of shit; when I want to buy a shirt, I for sure don't want to walk through a virtual mall. In fact, the reason I go online to buy a shirt is to avoid walking through a...

I just got spammed by Apple to take part in a Web Survey which although ironically amusing:Our records indicate that you have purchased a PowerMac in 2001 . Do you still use this computer? Which of the following best describes your current employment status? (Please select all that apply) went on to ask lots of detailed questions about the Calendar software I use both at home and work.It didn't give...

Dave Winer:I would love to see their candidates make an impassioned plea to keep the Internet free of interference from the entertainment industry. I would welcome this for two reasons. 1. First, I'm part of a constituency, like many others, who are looking for a candidate to vote for who supports our primary issue. Nothing unusual about that, easy to understand. 2. But as important, it would signal...

Liz Lawley: The Familiar Stranger is a social phenomenon first addressed by the psychologist Stanley Milgram in his 1972 essay on the subject. Familiar Strangers are individuals that we regularly observe but do not interact with. By definition a Familiar Stranger (1) must be observed, (2) repeatedly, and (3) without any interaction. [...]In presentations at conferences (and to students) lately, I've...

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Britta sums up the semantic web discussion with her personal ontolo...

Patrick Nielsen Heyden: Things that don't changeTeresa Nielsen Heyden: Ghosts of the Great WarI remember in 1982, when at school in the UK, there was a vogue for wearing white 'peace poppies' that funded CND. On November the 11th, my history teacher, Mr. Evans, came in wearing a red poppy, and noticing some of the white ones, scrapped his lesson plan and told us about the Somme.The part that sticks...

I was trying out searching for Rosie's Science ClubIf I google for wonder why science , Rosie comes out number 2, but the text at the top says "why" is a very common word and was not included in your search.If I google for wonder science , I get a completely different result set and Rosie is nowhere to be seen.I think this is another example of Google weighting <title> tags above PageRank, but...

Jane Jacobs: Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and PoliticsJacobs identifies two moral syndromes - a Guardian one and a Commercial one - takers and traders. You need both, but you shouldn't mix moral messages from each gro...

Ian Grigg: Ladies and Gentlemen, there you have it. The Internet Threat Model (ITM), in a nutshell.It's a strong model: the end nodes are secure and the middle is not. It's clean, it's simple, and we just happen to have a solution for it.Problem is, it's also wrong. The end systems are not secure, and the comms in the middle is actually remarkably safe.(Whoa! Did he say that?) Yep, I surely...

pythonmac.org is a great place to go to get information about Python on Mac, and the MacPython iChat room is even better...

Sandhill Trek: A Public Space Frank quotes Betsy quoting me at Bloggercon. Here's what I was trying to say:The net extends the range of the power law distribution. If you look at relative popularity on the web, using something like Technorati, you get a power law curve that goes all the way down smoothly, to the bottom where you see pages that got just a single link. If you look at popularity in...

The BBC iCan initiative is designed to help you campaign for things you want. I want the BBC to release radio programs as MP3's instead of streams, so I can listen to them without a computer with a live net connection.Speech radio programs don't go with using a computer to read and ty...

Gary Wolf:: All of Amazon's important innovations - starting from the concept of a Web bookstore - have suggested a profound change in the bookselling business, a change that makes it possible to earn a profit by selling a much wider variety of books than any previous retailer, including many titles from the so-called long tail of the popularity curve. 'If I have 100,000 books that sell one copy every...

Mark Pilgrim writes a thorough guide to some of Panther's new featur...

Apparently QuickTime 6.4 broke the playback of edited streams I relied upon to parody Jobs in the post below - now I get timeouts and 'waiting for media' countdowns.Sorry about th...

At the iTunes Music launch, Jobs said something very wrong - that record labels should be the arbiters of taste - that they edit for our own good, and that unsigned bands need not apply.The key point of digital media is that we can all edit, so I edited him:If that fails due to bandwidth Click hereNB - QuickTime 6.4 broke this. See abo...

Apple and Pepsi to Give Away 100 Million Free Songs: "Apple� and Pepsi-Cola North America today announced a historic promotion to legally give away 100 million free songs to Mac� and Windows PC users from Apple's iTunes� Music Store. Beginning February 1, 100 million winning codes will be randomly seeded in 20 ounce and 1 liter bottles of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Sierra Mist, and the winning codes will...

A preliminary response to AaronDiary of a Pilgrimage - Part I: What a wonderful piece of Socialism modern civilisation has become!--not the Socialism of the so-called Socialists--a system modelled apparently upon the methods of the convict prison--a system under which each miserable sinner is to be compelled to labour, like a beast of burden, for no personal benefit to himself, but only for the good...

There's Still No Such Thing as a Web Site: Finding the �Site� Isn�t SimpleThere�s just no way, as far as I can tell, to look at a URI and figure out what site it�s from. Some sites just aren�t hierarchical, sometimes the site isn�t rooted at the top level. For example, the root of ongoing is at http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/, but there are things that are part of ongoing that don�t start with http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/...

Danny O'Brien:In the real world, we have conversations in public, in private, and in secret. All three are quite separate. The public is what we say to a crowd; the private is what we chatter amongst ourselves, when free from the demands of the crowd; and the secret is what we keep from everyone but our confidant. Secrecy implies intrigue, implies you have something to hide. Being private doesn't....

Andrew Orlowski: Try OS X Panther Discussion for size: it's a Google query for OS X Panther discussion. In what must be a record, Google is - at time of writing - returning empty Trackback pages as No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 positions. No.5 gets you to a real web page - an Apple Insider bulletin board. Then it's back to empty Trackback pages for results No.6, No.7 and No.10. In short, Google returns...

I had a fascinating conversation with Bill Woodcock, who just got back from Tonga. Apparently in the developing world, 802.11 is taking over from GSM, as the access points are orders of magnitude cheaper.Consequently, there are cellphones that run 802.11 and VoIP, but the customers don't know this, as the phones just work.Routing round incumbent telcos this way is easier there - nations like Niu�...

Sitting in Stuart's Rendezvous session at foo camp, I was next to Sam Ruby, Jeremy Zawodny & Dave Sifry.I said we need a Rendezvous way to find blog feeds - Dave said 'use OPML'.So, the idea is to advertise local blog feeds via OPML, over Rendezvous. Usage scenario: walk into a conference, open your Aggregator, and it shows you all the locally relevant feeds - bloggers attending the conference,...

I have often pointed out that Digital Rights Management is futile. It is ineffective, and destroys the value of the content that it supposedly protects. Suncomm have sunk to a new low here:News.com:SunnComm Technologies, a developer of CD antipiracy technology, said Thursday that it will likely sue a Princeton student who early this week showed how to evade the company's copy protection by pushing...

Rosie has written an open letter on the San José City Wide Activity Guide and how by centralising listings of recreational activities, it has ended up cancelling lots of them due to lack of intere...

Jeremy Allaire: 'I wrote up a proposal, which I posted on my Weblog, for a new format called RSS-Data, which would provide an ability to provide richer data in RSS feeds,' Allaire said. 'So that people who want to use RSS as a way to do syndication of information, can syndicate not just news content but they'd be able to syndicate application data as well, data from a database or object data from...

Ashley Highfield: ...future TV will may be unrecognisable from today, defined not just by linear TV channels, packaged and scheduled by television executives, but instead will resemble more of a kaleidoscope, thousands of streams of content, some indistinguishable as actual channels. These streams will mix together broadcasters' content and programmes, and our viewers' contributions. At the simplest...

While I was getting ready for BloggerCon, I got a call form a USA Today Journalist, who had his story angle all ready:'So, you got fired for blogging?''No, it wasn't like that. I wrote an explanatory piece, why don't you read it?'He wasn't interested in that, so I explained a bit more that Apple discourages employees from talking to the press, and that I had found new work through my blogging.He managed...

I was too busy to blog at Bloggercon, but others weren't. je_apostrophe has a nice editorialised roundup.Dan Bricklin has great picturesBetsy Devine is just making me blushI had a great time - many thanks to Dave Winer and Wendy Koslow for making it happ...

The conference is over, so I've taken my 'bootleg feed' down. This is the problem with 'live' video - easy to do but no persistence. (Well, OK it wasn't that easy to do - I spent 2 years coding it at Apple so it could be this easy).Being able to do a live broadcast to the world on a whim with the contents of my backpack, an ethernet cable and a friendly server in Japan is something I would not have...

Tom Leonard : After aeons drifting hopelessly lost in the space/time continuum, Doctor Who is finally coming back to Earth. In a move that heralds the most eagerly anticipated comeback in television history, BBC1 said yesterday that it is developing a new series of the sci-fi classic.I'd like to repeat my vote for Stephen Fry as Dr Who.Update: Tom Baker tips Eddie Izzard for the r...

I've just had a conversation with Linda Meridon of the City of San Jose Finance Department.According to her, looking for contract work counts as running a business, and I need to apply for a San Jose business license.Also, as I didn't apply when I started looking in August, I will be charged interest on the fees. And she wants a copy of my 2002 tax return.Apparently, looking for full-time (W2) employment...

Liz leads me toTim Burke: Why is so much children's software so bad? Is it the need to appeal to parents with the proposition that it's "educational", which usually results in insincere, uninvolving, hack-design work in children's culture as a whole? Anybody got any ideas?The problem is twofold. Childrens 'culture' in games or TV is triply disintermediated - by parents, publishers and producers....

Tim Oren: Most hostile analysis of the music industry has focused on its inability to cope with the transition from material scarcity to digital abundance in the distribution portion of its business. However, the labels have been equally hapless when it comes to exploiting the Internet as a medium for promotion. Specifically, their promotional model still hinges on the scarcity of play slots on...

Joe Wilcox: Microsoft claims consumers and businesses can do lots of cool and productive things with Windows. But for all Windows' features, I find what I miss the most is the Internet. Or so I learned a few hours into my three days without Internet access.[...]Until this afternoon, when Comcast kicked local service back on, my computer was uncharacteristically idle, in spite of all the things I should...

Joi, Dave, Shelley and others have been talking about how Microsoft might approach the Syndication feud.They're all missing how 'embrace and extend' works. Imagine I'm a developer who wants to write a tool that can read and write to weblogs. I look into it and discover that there are multiple conflicting versions of syndication formats, and multiple inconsistent blog posting APIs. I have to pick which...

Joi comments on activist web video: At the joint Social Entrepreneurs and Global Leaders for Tomorrow meeting in Geneva, I met Gillian Caldwell. She is a film maker and an attorney and the Executive Director of WITNESS.This is incredibly important work. They are causing a great deal of impact already, but I think blogs could help increase their ability to reach a broader audience. This is such a great...

David Isenberg says: Yahoo and Google are permanently popular; they have low Zipf volatility. But my hypothesis is that there's a middle tier of blogs with high Zipf volatility, where a well expressed idea or a funny story or a new factoid can rapidly catapult a blog from #100,000 to #1000, or in rare cases even to #10, in a matter of hours.I am not sure how you'd test this idea experimentally (comments...

Our neighbour Gilda died early this morning after a long fight against hepatitis and its complications.She was a wonderful, kindly, loving lady. With her husband Bruce, she grew us vegetables in her garden, showed us interesting parts of California, and was always the neighbour you dream to have. We will miss her a l...

I had a long and fascinating discussion with Mark Petrovic today. David Beckemeyer - the Hecklebot creator - introduced us.it's very encouraging to meet somone paid to think deep...

Jason is one of the Blogger chaps inside Google, and seems to be working hard to expand Blogger's openness to 3rd party extensions and interesting additions, and very interested in Atom....

The St Luke's Chapel site now has photos.Rosie's Science Class, which is held at the church, has Photos up ...

I just posted BloggerCon IRC details over at the BloggerCon 2003 Weblog.This includes a link to my experimental simple OS X IRC client written in Python & PyObjC. (Currently it's so simple it only lets you into #bloggercon....

Interesting things are afoot with Technorati. Dave's prodigous database just keeps growi...

I met with Subutai Ahmad of Yesvideo.They have taken an interesting approach to the power law distribution of people with video cameras. They taregt the long tail who can't be botherd to edit it themselves. Instead they drop off the videotape at Walgreens with the photos, it gets shipped to Yesvideo, and they digitise it, make a DVD and ship it back. They have smart image processing to pick good chapter...

I had a fascinating lunch with Tim talking over possible futures of weblogging and how to rescue music from the RIAA mindset.He later blogged a splendid rant on all the ways the labels destroy value apart from D...

Rosie has begun teaching science to Elementary students. Some details over at Wonder Why ScienceHere she is demonstrating kinetic theory with blue ink in cold water and red in warm water:The hot water molecules are moving faster, and hence mix the ink up more quick...

People find the familiar comfortable. They want things to be like they were. So when technology did away with scarcity of recordings by making perfect copying easy, they wanted to change things back, to make these digits behave like physical goods.This is where the dream of DRM comes from - making digital goods scarce, and enforcing payment.Now using machines to enforce laws is bad. They have no capacity...

With nice history charts for all your favourite memes .Glad to see Anna found a home for it....

What the #joiito bot knows. I'm dumping it out dynamically with the Twisted webserver, which is all Python too.For some reason I needed to use a full path to the pickle data, not a local o...

Having finally got DSL via Earthlink, I'm swamped by the megabit bandwidth. Lots of nice movies to wat...

Greg Dyke's speech in full says less than the press release:We intend to allow parts of our programmes, where we own the rights, to be available to anyone in the UK to download so long as they don't use them for commercial purpos...

Don't go back to school day is a day of warnings about schools. eg "Here's a helpful tip; while at school, try not to get beat up". It's not John Gatto, but it makes the point...

Rosie & I went up to the Presidio for lunch with the Archive team. Brewster manages to get a great deal done with a very small staff and a huge penumbra of friends and volunteers. Lots of fascinating stuff about the Bookmobile abroad in Africa and Asia, and met Rick Prelinger and Lisa Rein too.Afterwards we drove back to the Santa Cruz mountains for a great Mars watching Party, and had to go via...

Over the famous spicy noodles at Jing Jings, I signed up with Dave to speak at BloggerCon.I'll be on the 'Tech' Panel, where blog users talk back to vendors about technical needs, and I'm putting together a talk on the Sunday about the need for a new model for video and audio to make them more blog-like and less like voicemail.I also think I persuaded Dave to include live IRC at the conference - more...

Had a good chat with Larry about the similarities and differences between Creative Commons and mediAgora - the goals are broadly aligned, but the methods slightly differe...

iTunes iSbogus attacks iTunes store for funneling money to the record labels instead of artis...

Had a nice long chat with the MailFrontier folks about the detailed workings of their spam reduction tools Matador and Anti-spam gateway- a clever and systematic approach. I mentioned my swarming class action anti-spam id...

Met up with Ross Mayfield & Pete Kaminski of SocialText, who blend Wiki's and blogs for Enterprise customers, and build nice tools for conference communications.I think there is potential in extending the 'third place' of an online conference chatspace and combining it with a real-world cafe/bar at the conference, but you'd need a friendly host like Jeannie to make it wo...

Good to catch up with Peter again; had a great long conversation about digital media, the net, philosophy and more. he's doing interesting things with mobile devices and net standards at Kino...

Aaron, Dave and Brent have been discussing Postel's law and XML.Brent says:Some people have said that the issue with not well-formed feeds and aggregators is a kind of prisoner�s dilemma.In other words, if all aggregator developers pledged to reject not well-formed feeds, then that would be incentive for people to fix their feeds.It is a kind of Prisoner's Dilemma, but it is an iterated one. If the...

Greg Dyke is going to put the BBC archives online15 years ago, I joined the BBC as a video engineer with Television Film Services, an odd department that had dominion over (among other odd sites) Ealing Studios and the film & video archive at Windmill Road.I spent a couple of weeks at Windmill Road, working on the 2-inch Videotape machines which you could edit videotape like film on - a razorblade...

Finally an aggregation standard that can handle the nuances of forked Mornington Crescent games and WeightWatchers calculato...

That'll teach me to post weather forecasts... it rained today. (It just doesn't do that in the Bay Area in August).I'll leave the prognostications to Rosie - she called the stock peak for Apple within...

I read this article by Virginia Postrel before moving here, nearly 6 years ago now; it seems appropriate today.Silicon Valley's perfect weather means you don't need backup plans, just in case it rains. It means you don't resent spending a beautiful day inside at work, because tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow will be just as gorgeous. It means you have more energy, sapped neither by sleep-inducing...

How instant IM criticism tanks over-hyped movies:The problem, they say, is teenagers who instant message their friends with their verdict on new films - sometimes while they are still in the cinema watching - and so scuppering carefully crafted marketing campaigns designed to lure audiences out to a big movie on its opening weekend."In the old days, there used to be a term, 'buying your gross,' "...

Joi and Ross have been talking about finding work through 'weak ties'.I came to Apple in 1998 through just such a route - I had been a regular contributor to the QuickTime-API and QuickTime-Talk mailing lists, so when I was interviewed and hired, many of my new colleagues were people I'd been sharing software hacks, hints and jokes with for many years. The trust I had built up in them meant that I...

Frank Pierson's commencement address to USC Film School is stirring, but has more rhetoric than answers:We have to remind ourselves that this viewer is only another aspect of ourselves, that we have also in us-as he does-a better part, that needs to be cultivated and to express itself. There is no single audience with a single personality. There is the larger audience-currently under-served-that has...

Joi points out a new scientist story about Duncan Watts' experiment that shows 6 degrees of separation, even though Milgram didn't - most of his messages didn't get through.As well as getting this backwards, the article says:The researchers were surprised to discover that message chains did not rely on a few highly connected individuals, so-called "hubs". Previous research by Watts and fellow Cornell...

I've discussed Power law distributions in the context of music, box office and other charts and the danger of modelling them with gaussians - you over weight the 'top ten' hits, and ignore the 'long tail' of many smaller creators.The stock market has a complementary problem. Options pricing is done using a model known as Black-Scholes, that has as a key parameter historical volatility, and the variance...

Xeni picks up on itFisking is normally more one-sided than this - I call the QuickTopic twist 'Social Fisking', as it can become a conversation.The best classic Fisking I've seen was Lawmeme vs Franc...

Xeni Jardin points to an article she wrote for Grammy magazine on compulsory licensing.I've fisked it using QuickTopic.If you want to join in, please...

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Stephen Hill, on the pho list, points to a great interview with Bernard Lietaer on complementary currencies (ignore the rather schmaltzy new age design; this is deep stuff about monetary theory, clearly explained).First, let's define what a currency is, because most textbooks don't teach what money is. They only explain its functions, that is, what money does. I define money, or currency, as an agreement...