Mutterings

Douglas Rushkoff makes the case for a slight tweak (!) to our current economy:

But this changed the shape of business fundamentally. Instead of thriving on innovation and progress, corporate monopolies simply sought to extract wealth from the regions they controlled. They didn’t need to compete, anymore, so they just sucked resources from places and people. [...]

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What do you do in this day and age as an artist when someone “remixes” or edits your artistic output? Metallica has garnered a reputation as an Internet-unfriendly band with their stance on Napster and file sharing in general. In this case, someone has taken their latest album, released on Friday, and edited [...]

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So I’m back home and finished with all my conference speaking engagements. It was an interesting learning experience to say the least. Some things I learned:

I was pretty uncomfortable giving a non-technical talk at technical conferences. It’s not unheard of, but I felt like I had to explain up front to the [...]

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We’re rich!
PS Not really.

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Why do they bother offering these crappy services, over and over? Here’s a hint, AT&T: no one’s going to use it and you’ll close it up with a whimper in a year. After all, who wouldn’t want to pay $2 for a DRM-infested song when they can get it in plain vanilla MP3 [...]

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Music on the phone: not many do it - Engadget Mobile
I can’t imagine why not. I love paying $3 for a DRM-laden 3 minute song that I can only listen to on my current phone. Ever tried to manage a library of songs on your phone? There’s a reason why the ipod [...]

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There’s something very cool about seeing your software running in different languages. Here’s the WebSphere Business Services Fabric running in Korean. Internationalization is one of the big changes in our forthcoming 6.0.2 release.

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What a fantastic idea. I’ll have a cold Whatever, please.
Soft Drinks for the Undecided

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This is a pretty fundamental change in how we compute. Kudos to Microsoft for risking such large changes in an attempt to make us all more secure.
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I can’t believe people pay money to this company for their research. This article about an outsourcing report appears to have no useful conclusion. Let me summarize: if you outsource, you may save money, you may not. Wow, so you are telling me that each business is different and that it is [...]

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