Thursday, September 29, 2005

The Post-Modern Equivalent of Brass Candlesticks

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In this day and age, not many folks still have brass candlesticks to polish. But we apparently have a replacement activity: Apple nano polis...
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Amen

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The highlight of an interview with Jeff Jones of IBM Analyst Relations : What are things you would change? I would rewrite PowerPoint to all...
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Knowing Cultural Context

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Tokyo-based blogger Sean Kinsell eviscerates this WaPost story purporting to find a new girlyness among Japanese men. For a primer on how...
Friday, September 23, 2005

Opting In and Opting Out

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We're starting to hear the "Opt Out" defense a lot in some recent copyright cases, first with the Internet Library (which I di...
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

More Wikipedia Weakness

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It's often tempting to give Wikipedia a pass. After all, many of its most egregious errors get fixed over time--at least if the topic is...
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Monday, September 19, 2005

DVD Wars

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I'm not an expert on this stuff, but this writeup from Engadget seems to do a nice job of cutting to the basics of the Blu-ray vs, HD D...
Friday, September 16, 2005

Disk To Flash

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Yes, it's been a while since I've posted. My bad. Lots of travel in various permutations of business and pleasure and the organizati...
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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Scheduling Problems

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Fellow analyst Stephen O'Grady asks " Why is Scheduling Still So Damn Hard? " Think about how you schedule meetings with folks...

Losing Money on Volume

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A few weeks ago I suggested that at least relative to the Harry Potter books of the world, there's a bit less discounting competition o...
Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Code From Books

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Dan Bricklin's latest Software Licensing podcast is with Tim O'Reilly , founder and CEO of O'Reilly media. A chunk of it deals w...
Tuesday, August 16, 2005

NPR On Demand?

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Podcasting and related technologies have been called the "End of Radio." I haven't been buying ; at least for the most part. ...
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Dan Bricklin on Software patents

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Dan Bricklin weighs in on software patents in this post . Dan has some history here. As the creator of VisiCalc, he's previously written...
Thursday, August 11, 2005

The Web 2.0 Debate

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Overheated blog conversations often get more wrapped up in the terminology than the "thing" itself. I've written about past tr...

The Four Seasons and Generic Luxury

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I like reading reading View of the Wing , even if (fortunately from my perspective) I'm not a serious enough road warrior to appreciate ...

Risks of Blogging

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There's a good interview with Sun's Tim Bray , Director of Web Technologies, and Simon Phipps , Chief Technology Evangelist (Love t...
Thursday, August 04, 2005

The Long Tail For Quants

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As regular readers know, I studiously avoid a lot of what I consider to be "blogosphere" hype - including the term blogosphere and...
Wednesday, August 03, 2005

10 Years That Changed the World

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It's a bit ironic that, these days, Wired remains one of the few magazines that I still receive in dead tree form. I like the mix of sto...
Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Wikipedia Data and Anecdotes

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I like both data (that is generalized data from lots of people) and anecdotes (specific data from a few). Her's a bit of both about a to...
Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Some More on Digital Archives

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Although not directly on the point to the current Internet Archive case, this piece written by Adam Mathes, Graduate School of Library and I...
Friday, July 15, 2005

The Internet Archive continued

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In response to my last post , fellow analyst James Governor speculates that perhaps libraries like the Library of Congress might not be one...
Thursday, July 14, 2005

Thoughts on The Wayback Machine Kerfuffle

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The Internet Archive a.k.a. Wayback Machine is being sued by a firm called Healthcare Advocates for storing copies of old web pages. (See...
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Monday, July 11, 2005

Podcasting Redux

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Podcasting continues to be a beloved trend of the plugged-in elite. I've commented rather dismissively about it before . Since then I...
Tuesday, June 21, 2005

A New Age For Movies

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Irving Wladawsky-Berger at IBM has recently posted a couple of eloquent blogs about how the Internet has made movie-watching just that much ...
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Thursday, June 16, 2005

Another Wikipedia Data Point

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Although I've picked and probed at Wikipedia here and here , I find it a useful tool. But I think it important to understand its limirta...
Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Dartmouth Review 25th

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This will be about as far as I get from IT here. But, given that it's the 25th anniversary of The Dartmouth Review, a newspaper I helpe...