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11 Apr 2002 A dystopian vision of Life On the Net in 2004
[ 11-Apr-02 8:29pm ] Have you noticed how people have started referring to Yahoo! as Y!. Should this be pronounced Why Shriek? or Why Bang?
And what about the characters often found at the top of perl and shell scripts #! Is that Hash Bang ? [ 11-Apr-02 1:52pm ] Microsoft has announced pricing for their MapPoint.NET service; yikes. And the uptime is only three nines. Hopefully MapQuest or Vicinity will come out with a service that supports the same API so we can get some price competition going. [thanks, Hack the Planet] Is this the first example of chargeable public web services? Platform Access Fee = $15,000.00 USD, Per User License = $299.00 USD, Per Transaction = $0.01 USD with a 45 day free trial. Presumably MS will release a toolkit to help others copy this approach. As HTP says, it will be interesting to see if equivalent services from other providers can provide realistic competition and drive the price down.
Demo: Reconfigurable Robots PARC's Mark Yim shows off his robots, which reassemble themsleves to slink like snakes, roll like wheels or scamper like lizards. [thanks, Technology Review - Computers and Electronics] Yummy. I love this stuff.
[ 11-Apr-02 8:07am ] 10 Apr 2002 Tim O'Reilly reports back from the Alpha Geeks on the front lines.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/04/09/future.html "The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet" 1. Wireless. Don't be Wired, be Wireless 2. Next Generation Search Engines. The one after Google. 3. Weblogs. Journalism 3.0. The readers fight back. 4. Instant Messaging. With APIs for programmers 5. File Sharing. Napster died but free music lives on. 6. Grid Computing. That's Seti, Protein folding and code cracking. What's next. 7. Web Spidering. the Internet is huge and it's all mine. All this seems awfully familiar, Tim. I thought you said this was the future? [ 10-Apr-02 5:48pm ] 05 Apr 2002 Geographic guesswork about where you are physically, based on hints in your tcp/ip from Threering.net Click here now
[ 05-Apr-02 8:22am ] 04 Apr 2002 Limited Pie. A Home for Scarce Thought on the Net : A Modest Post-Napster Proposal Rather wonderful proposal in the spirit of Swift to deal with music copyright, by producing, storing and copywriting every possible 4 minute song in MP3 format with distributed computing and storage. An MP3 is just a very long binary number. Cycle through every possible binary number of this length and you have all possible songs. Unfortunately the math is a little out, but it's still within the bounds of possibility.
[ 04-Apr-02 9:06am ] A photocopier for CDs Australian convenience-stores install coin-operated CD duplicators. The machines are able to operate under the same legislation as public photocopiers, where the burden of responsibility for copyright breaches lies with the user and not the owner of the equipment.Link [thanks, bOing bOing] Unbelievable! But it makes perfect sense, why not?
[ 04-Apr-02 8:47am ] 02 Apr 2002 The Republic of FreeA couple of Aussie teenagers have planted a flag on the abandoned Tuvalan island of Asau (which is sinking) and have declared The Republic of Free, a sovereign nation. [thanks, bOing bOing] You know that big iceberg that separated off from the Antarctic? Has anyone claimed that yet? This is prime Loompanics stuff. There's still "Free" land out there if you're prepared to search for it.
[ 02-Apr-02 9:15am ] Borg Journalism - We are the Blogs. Journalism will be Assimilated. As a journalist covering the weblog beat, I officially love weblogs. But sometimes that love can be sorely tested. Weblogs scoop you at every turn, [thanks, Microcontent News] Excellent analysis of what it means to be a journalist competing with the Blog hive mind to cover an internet story. One thing I think it points up is the need for better Blog aggregators to provide the 10,000 foot overview of what the Blog Hive mind is up to. Blogdex, Daypop, Weblogs.com are all excellent first attempts, but they are just that, first attempts.
[ 02-Apr-02 9:12am ] The EFF starts using blog technology to highlight particular issues. See Consensus at Lawyerpoint
[ 02-Apr-02 9:09am ] 01 Apr 2002 Another of those puzzling questions (like how do you know what time you went to sleep?). Where are all the French websites? I stumble over German websites quite often. And there's plenty of Polish websites selling Delphi shareware. I find quite a lot of Japanese and Italian websites when looking for motorcycle information. But I never seem to see French ones.
[ 01-Apr-02 5:26pm ] A Spyware free version of Kazaa. KaZaA Lite
[ 01-Apr-02 9:45am ] According to Andrew Orlowski The Register (1-April-2002 ), AOL has bought two hundred of the most popular blogs. "In related news, MetaFilter was said to be signing a merger agreement with Kuro5hin to pool content between the two sites. We'll bring you more news as soon as we hear it.".
But shouldn't this be on NTK? "In-jokes for outcasts". [ 01-Apr-02 9:02am ] 31 Mar 2002 Do you belong to lots of Yahoo! Mailing lists? Do you have a Yahoo! account? Then go to "Account Info, Edit your marketing preferences." You will probably want to set all the options to NO. You have about 55 days to do this, before they start spamming you.
[ 31-Mar-02 9:33am ] Deaddog's doo-wop rarities I just got a shipment of fantastic doo-wop and swing rarities from Deaddog music, a microlabel bringing back old 78s and singles. ... I have one other disk of his stuff, but most of his vast catalog of 78s is lost to history.[thanks, bOing bOing] I wonder if there's a thing like the Gutenberg Project, but instead of digitizing and archiving, doing the same for early recorded music. If there isn't there should be. A quick Google turned up the Mutopia project to digitize music scores, but I'm thinking of a library of MP3s of old out of copyright 78s for free download.
[ 31-Mar-02 8:48am ] 30 Mar 2002 I can't help but be amused by a post at
 Scripting News talking about Jabber in appreciative terms, that is followed four paragraphs later by a piece decrying the hype around Open Source. Last time I looked, Jabber, just like those other successful software projects such as Apache, Linux, PHP and many others was Open Source. As usual, everybody's right at the same time as everyone's wrong. It just depends on which side of the argument you want to be and what point you're trying to argue. It's undenyably hard to make a living out of programming in an Open Source stylee. But that doesn't seem to be stopping a large number of programmers churning out code because they've got an itch to scratch.[ 30-Mar-02 7:05pm ] The kind of website that really brightens up your day. s o r t a k i n d a . c o m "Jesus, always with you" was perfect as long as you're not too easily offended...
[ 30-Mar-02 8:04am ] 27 Mar 2002 Want to see what music I like? Check this out.
[from, Scripting News]. Walk into almost anybody's house, saunter over to the record collection and surreptitiously scan the titles. Even if they lie about their age, you can immediately tell in which era they were 17-22. This is something I've never quite understood, because even though I still have all the records I bought then, I never stopped buying new ones and listening to new musics. Grateful Dead Live in '72 and Beefheart's The Spotlight Kid sits cheek by jowl with The Kruder and Dorfmeister Project and The Thievery Corporation. Anyway regardless of cheap shots about people's taste in music, it's nice to see the return of "Ourfavoritesongs". Hmm, that doesn't look right? That must be the wrong link into the mad scientist's lab ...[ 27-Mar-02 8:56am ] 25 Mar 2002 Dan blogging PC Forum : [Intel's] Barrett sees Moore's law and its equivalents lasting "at least 15 or more years more" with current technology. "No question about that.", Like he says Wow! Think about that. 2^10 times as much processing power as we have now. The equivalent of a 2048 GHz Pentium 4. Now will we have an equivalent increase in bandwidth? 512Mbps broadband?
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