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Monday, January 19, 2004 |
Cato can't distinguish collectivism from collective action. Adam Thierer of the Cato Institute recently published an attack on what he perceives presidential candidate Howard Dean's Internet policy to be. In the process, he conflates "collectivism" -- as in the failed policies of communism -- with "collective action" -- as in the Internet, the United States, and the stockmarket. He warns of a lefty plot to prevent entrepreneurs from making a profit. Last time I looked, though, the Internet was still a commons and Jerry Yang and Jeff Bezos were still bazillionaires. Both David Weinberger and Larry Lessig dissect Thierer's disingenuous inaccuracies. [Smart Mobs]
9:21:55 PM 
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Mike Wendland: "I am daily amazed at the Dean campaign's creative and passionate use of the Net." [Channel Dean]
Kinda just checkin' out Channel Dean . . .
2:40:31 PM
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bOing bOing points out the
Iranian MPs are kinda, sorta blogging the sit-in protests. See hoder for the scoop (the blog is in Farsi, unsigned, served on a free service, and just has their public announcements) and some analysis:But the good thing is that, apparently, while they have no access to any Iranian TV or Radio, they've embraced weblogs as a great means of a) publishing their announcements and program b) reaching the young Iranians who have long lost their interest in politics whatsoever.
I hope this will show them the importance of weblogs as a political tool which they will really need if they want to get the votes of de-politicized youth of Iran.
Wish I was there and could really blog the sit-in in both Persian and English.
By the way, you can send them emails asking for an English blog. Although they might not do it to prevent hardliners accusing them of spying or threatening the national security. Here is the email: sitin@hotmail.com (I know, they look very cheap! They should move this blog to the official Parliament's website; or at least get a domain name.)
Here's the Iranian Members of Parliament sit-in blog, for good measure.
2:38:56 PM
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2003 viruses caused $55B damage, antivirus firm says, by Jennifer Tan
(Reuters).
Computer virus attacks cost global businesses an estimated $55 billion
in damages in 2003, a sum that would rise this year, said Trend Micro
Inc., the world's third-largest antivirus software maker.
Companies lost roughly $20 billion to $30 billion in 2002 from the
virus attacks, up from about $13 billion in 2001, according to various
industry estimates.
The economic and financial impact of virus attacks will continue to
climb in 2004, Lionel Phang, Trend Micro's Managing Director told
Reuters in an interview. He did not have a forecast for the year.
Nothing huge in the analysis of the past year, and who knows about the
virtues of the dollar figures, but the discussion of trends is worth the
seventy seconds or so to check it out. That's probably pretty good
prognostication, I think.
8:37:10 AM
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R.I.P., John Hechinger, 84, Chairman of Washington's First Council, Dies. By John Files. [New York Times: Business]John W. Hechinger was a civic and business leader who guided a chain of home improvement stores for four decades.
6:29:15 AM
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