Saturday, March 15, 2003

Another reason to love referer logs: I learned about http://fyuze.com/ because of a referral I saw this morning. fyuze is home to find.fyuze.com, which allows you to quickly search the day's news for topics that interest you daily.fyuze.com, a virtual newspaper that is automatically assembled by collecting items from numerous related news sources. fresh.fyuze.com, a listing of new things on the internet. Learning of these makes me glad. 8:02:00 AM    comment []

50 Years Melding Tech and Sounds. Pauline Oliveros got her first tape recorder in 1953. Since then, she's devoted her life to studying technology's interactions with sound. By Katie Dean. [Wired News] 7:50:31 AM    comment []

Lessig: spectrum everywhere. There's a new piece by Eli Noam posted (for free for 2 weeks) at the FT about spectrum policy. This follows the brilliant and much discussed piece by David Weinberger on Salon explaining David Reed's views about "interference." Noam has been in the middle of the debate between the spectrum-as-property types and the spectrum-as-commons types for a long time. As his piece concludes, "spectrum should be free to access but not free of charge." The reason is an assumption that is at the core of his and the spectrum-as-property school of thought: "Eventually, any resource whose utili[z]ation is of value, yet whose use is without a charge, will be over-utili[z]ed." The more I hear these property and quasi-property types talk, the more I believe that this is the core assumption that needs to be attacked. There are two possible lines of attack, both, in my view, true, but only one which is useful. 6:16:40 AM    comment []

Putting the Swiss System Back Together. For decades, the Swiss economy has thrived by catering to the demands of the global elite. Now that pre-eminence is cracking. By John Tagliabue. [New York Times: Business] 6:14:32 AM    comment []

At Conference Tournaments, the Colleges Major in Money. The public has been treated to a slate of thrilling moments: game-winning shots in the final seconds, overtimes, upsets. But when do these athletes study? By William C. Rhoden. [New York Times: Education] 6:12:04 AM    comment []

Ides of March -- two years ago today on t'other blog: Text pirates: http://textz.com -- a spectre is haunting the corporate world -- the spectre of organized world-wide file-sharing. Napster Blocks Over 115,000 Songs: But the popular song-swapping service refuses to screen out 46,000 other titles, citing improper procedure by copyright holders. Remember those recounts? Curious who really won Florida? Florida: The Running Tally George W. Bush: I wasn't the least bit bitter or angry or anything, I was just reconciled to defeat, and all of a sudden, victory was at hand, Florida's back. Welcome to the World Wide Web. Passport, Please? There is this naïve idea that the Internet changes everything, said Ronald S. Katz, one of the lawyers representing the French groups that have sued Yahoo. It doesn't change everything. It doesn't change the laws in France. 20 ejaculations, no babies! A father goes through the pain and surprise benefits of vasectomy. 6:11:47 AM    comment []