BurningbirdIf you’ve read this weblog for any length of time than you know I’m rather partial to San Francisco. Unfortunately, it looks like I’ll be having to move. San Francisco is now known as the most expensive city in the US. It’s also a place where every technical contracting position has 200+ applicants. These two […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Shannon recently switched from a Blogger weblog to Movable Type, and did a nice, neat job of it, too. And then I was tripping through the Plutonians and found that Phil Ringalda has moved to Movable Type. That one floored me. If you’ve worked with Blogger, than you know Phil — he’s helped […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Internet Radio is at risk due to CARP — the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel. There’s also a new bill being put forward before Congress that would make copying watermarks and holograms illegal. Dallas News is issuing “cease and desist” orders against online sites for deep linking. The Electronic Frontier Foundation — the main watchdog against copyright abuses […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There’s been discussion throughout weblogging about whether people would vote for Bush again or not. Many of the postings I’ve read said that the webloggers would primarily because of his policies regarding Israel, and his “handling of terrorism”. To vote for Bush solely because of terrorism ignores so many other […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In the previous posting, Dave attached a comment that returns us to the conversation about centralization. However, I don’t expect that we’ll generate any definitive answers to “what is centralization”, as the folks who are interested in distributed systems and P2P have been working this issue for years, with only qualified success. […]