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Tuesday, December 23, 2003 |
The Internet Is a Very Sick Place. Viruses and worms ran rampant in 2003, but be prepared for worse, as the malware writers team up with the Net's other ne'er-do-wells, the spammers. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
11:29:37 AM 
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Lessig on trading subsidies: I've got a column in the January Wired (not yet online) attacking farm subsidies. Actually, more precisely, attacking farm subsidies when, simultaneously, in the name of "free trade" we demand developing nations protect our IP. (You must protect the market for our Mickey, while we destroy the market for your wheat.). . . . [O]nline, it won't include an error that is in the printed edition. I was drafting between attacking the policies of industrialized nations in general, and America in particular, and the statistics got mixed in the end. It is the industrialized nations together that spend $300 billion a year on farm subsidies -- six times the aid to developing nations. Obviously, the US doesn't spend that much alone.
I apologize for that stupid error, which is totally my fault. But I won't apologize for attacking farm subsidies.
11:15:39 AM
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Address book poker. Joi Ito describes a game played in Japan which originated with business cards, but then moved on to cell phones; a sort of business person's russian-roulette:
There are three people: two players and a judge. The two players pick someone from their address books and reveal them to each other simultaneously. The judge decides which one is more famous or important. The loser has to shred the business card or in the case of mobile phones, delete that entry from the address book. It's quite funny because you try to play important people to beat the other person, but if you lose, you lose a valuable phone number. The judge's perspective of what sort of person is important also comes into play in an interesting way.
It's no fun when you have backups of your phone numbers, but in Japan, where most people don't backup their mobile phone numbers, it's often for keeps. [Smart Mobs]
9:00:14 AM
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Battle Not Over for File Sharers. The recent ruling preventing the Recording Industry of America from using ISPs to go after copyright offenders opens new legal avenues to those who have been sued. But beating the RIAA won't be easy. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]
8:27:38 AM
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Useit.Com: Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003. Many of this year's top design mistakes actually indicate a happy phenomenon: we are making progress in Web usability. Now that sites are doing certain things correctly, we get hit by second-order phenomena that only cause problems because users have progressed past the first-order issues. [Tomalak's Realm]
7:47:37 AM
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