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...
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/...
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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...