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22 Aug 2001 OK. Who's going to sponsor me to go to the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference Washington, D.C. -- September 18-21, 2001 : I'm really cheap and I promise to write a report with a management summary afterwards...
[ 22-Aug-01 4:43pm ] Rabbits! : I put little things on his head, that I can take pictures of his headperformance. It is a result of intimate relationship of me and Oolong, and alone headperformance is not a main theme of my site.
[ 22-Aug-01 2:33pm ] The Times : THOUSANDS more closed circuit television cameras are to be installed in public places, it was announced yesterday. The Government is spending £79 million on 250 schemes in England and Wales in the battle against crime. More than one million cameras are already trained on street crime hot spots. Research shows that CCTV coverage can reduce illegal activity by up to 60 per cent.
Smile you're on TV. And all this while C4 is showing a series on the History of Surveillance. Last week's program reached the conclusion that CCTV doesn't reduce crime it just shifts it to other locations. Far more important are the commercial aspects of behavioural control aided by highly visible video monitoring. eg please move along, you're not buying anything.. Now if they turned all these into webcams, that would be something. Why should the forces of Awe and Boredom be the only group to be able to see what's going on? There's an idea that turns up every so often in Sci-Fi which is the "God's Eye". This is a location or view point from which you can see everything. I think there's a common mental misconception that this is real. That there's a place I can stand where everything becomes visible. This is easy in our heads, but of course is impossible in reality. I wonder if there's an element in the increase in surveillance that comes from trying to reach this ideal. eg "If we just open more letters, tap more phones, install more CCTV, we'll be able to know what's *really* going on." [ 22-Aug-01 2:12pm ] What is Pandromeda and Mojoworld
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[ 21-Aug-01 8:56pm ] Just started another book. This one is for the hacks and add ons I've written for the Drupal system but for whatever reason haven't made it into the distribution.
[ 21-Aug-01 8:46pm ] A Chat with the Master of P2P - Business Week Aug 21 2001 7:37AM ET Another Ray Ozzie interview.
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 [Scripting News] These broken Manila / Radio permalinks are really beginning to wind me up. I'd like to read Doc Searles, but his RSS feed is terminally broken so I don't. Now Dave W is doing it as well.[ 21-Aug-01 8:22pm ] n/a
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OpenP2P.com: The Great Rewiring [Aug. 20, 2001] : OpenP2P.com editor Richard Koman reached Shirky by phone to talk about this "rewiring," Web services and the future of P2P. Lots of great analysis from Clay.
[ 21-Aug-01 9:02am ] Tim O'Reilly: - Tim O'Reilly: "In terms of business models for open source, I'm convinced that most of the benefits go to the users (and user-developers). Revenue comes from using the software, not from selling it." Too bad that doesn't seem to help us with desktop software. Although I guess some huge company might decide that hiring a few programmers to work full-time on OpenOffice would be cheaper than 10,000 licenses of Microsoft Office. [Hack the planet] Another take on monetizing open source.
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[ 21-Aug-01 8:51am ] YIL | Feature : Exit Strategy is an open source novel from Douglas Rushkoff. The conceit is that this is a novel about the dot com boom that has been discovered in the 23rd century. people from that time (actually you and me) have annotated it with descriptions of the concepts. Interesting idea. It's just a shame that it was done in Yahoo with all it's adverts and not on a private site.
[ 21-Aug-01 8:03am ] 20 Aug 2001 Quick Reference For Choosing a Free Software License : Quick Reference For Choosing a Free Software License After the recent rant below this is good stuff. Also see this /. article and also this from Flow.
[ 20-Aug-01 9:01pm ] Airsnort: Open Source WEP cracker goes public - Of course, this was inevitable. The widely publicized WEP vulnerability has been rolled into an Open Source project. [kuro5hin.org] Damn, the world moves fast these days. When was the vulnerability discovered?
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