Friday, May 28, 2004

Great essay by Clay Shirky that I've been thinking about since I read it: Nomic World 11:36:55 PM    comment []

Friday's must-reads [Salon.com] 4:12:31 PM    comment []

Read about the time Henry Kissinger told an aide that President Richard Nixon was too drunk to take a call from the British prime minister, thanks to The National Archives and The Smoking Gun. (I blinked earlier news that more records were coming. This is going to be a fun period!) 10:33:42 AM    comment []

Transitions. "MIT World™ is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT."A video of a lecture given by Padmasree Warrior,senior vice-president and chief technology officer of Motorola Incorporated and hosted by the Industrial Liaison Program has been made available.From the site and about the lecture."In a time when the boundaries between home, work, car, and plane are blurring, Motorola is exploring ways to enable people to have seamless transitions from one venue to another. These include applications like being able to continue to hear the news story that you began listening to in your car, and picking it up immediately upon entering your house (your house is "smart" enough to know what you want to hear) to more complex ways to enable your work environment and your personal media to be with you even while attending a conference.Warrior describes how thousands of Motorola engineers are trying to create a transparent network so that individuals can take their music, video, pictures ---virtually any kind of data with them -- wherever they go. “Mobile devices have become the remote control for life. Let us do things we have not thought about before,” says Warrior. For 75 years, Motorola has specialized in what Warrior describes as “preemptive innovation.” This means not just enabling new ways to communicate (for example, creating the two-way radio and cell phone), but giving customers new reasons to communicate." Seamless Transitions [Smart Mobs] The main page should be this one. 7:15:35 AM    comment []

The Numbing Rhythms of Drug Addiction. Stephen J. Szklarski's video documentary tracks the lives of seven young drug addicts who live in and around Union Square Park in Manhattan. By Dave Kehr. [New York Times: Business] 7:09:54 AM    comment []

"Notes From Underground" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Forget Constance Garnett -- the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation makes the most cryptic of existential cult classics stranger, funnier and more alive than ever [Salon.com] 7:03:54 AM    comment []

Redraw your own conclusions. Brian Dear has some very interesting graphs that show downward trending for some name brand Web sites, and ... well, you'll see. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 7:03:31 AM    comment []

Clay Shirky on Mutable Rules for Games. Clay Shirky rocks, what more can I say. Oh, maybe this: following is a copy of an essay he's been giving since the State of... [The Alphaville Herald] 7:03:09 AM    comment []

Lindows can keep company name, judge rules. SAN FRANCISCO - In a case that could have forced Linux vendor Lindows Inc. to change its business name worldwide, a Netherlands court on Thursday ruled that Lindows' current limited use of the Lindows name does not violate Microsoft Corp.'s Windows trademark. [InfoWorld: Top News] 7:01:59 AM    comment []