Wednesday, September 25, 2002
Labels shoot selves in foot by focusing on stopping P2P
A new KPMG study concludes that the RIAA and its member companies are hurting themselves by focusing on cracking down on P2P sharing instead of figuring out ways to earn a living with it.
[Boing Boing Blog]
Hope the KPMG folks didn't cancel the staff foosball tournament or the executive duck pond to fund that study. 8:23:15 PM | permalink | comment [] |
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 I downloaded OmniOutliner today and was pleasantly surprised to find it was a beta with the recently announced OPML import and export. You won't be (pleasantly surprised) however - I just downloaded another copy for a different machine and it's been rolled back to a regular release - sans OPML. Soon, grasshopper, very soon.7:58:24 PM | permalink | comment [] |
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The Phantom War
"I'm finding that I don't genuinely believe Bush means to get into a war with Iraq. Not a 'real' war, with invasions, anyway. It doesn't make sense to go in and rip the place up. It's not the most efficient means to getting what America's businesses might want, anyway."
[rushkoff.blog] 8:41:08 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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Ottawa pegs Kyoto job risk at 200,000
"The draft document's 200,000 job-loss estimate does not specify whether analysts took into account the positive impact on employment of measures to implement the Kyoto Protocol, such as alternative fuel generation"
[The Globe And Mail - National] 8:31:55 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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Bell to launch online music service
"Bell Canada refused to comment prior to the announcement but one source said a subscription service, called Radio MX Musicmatch, will see paying subscribers choose music from a "digital jukebox" and subsequently "burn" CDs using music from its partners' playlists for $59.95 per year."
[National Post: Financial Post]
Hard to say exactly what will be offered but unlimited burning for $60 CAD would be a reasonable price. What format will music be? MP3? Bwaa-ha-ha! Windows Media more likely, with the attendant lack of compatibilty for iPods, iTunes or a gazillion other listenologies. We'll see. 8:20:51 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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Some day, they'll call this the Golden Age
"Yesterday's announcement that three of the six finalists for the Booker Prize are Canadian was just the latest instalment in the stunning apotheosis of Canadian writing that has occurred in the past two decades. For some, all that's needed now is a Nobel victory to put the country inarguably in the pantheon of the world's great literatures."
[The Globe And Mail - Arts]
According to Kurt Vonnegut, this may only mean we Canadians are behind the curve by continuing to "get off on language". Somehow I like that interpretation. 8:01:37 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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My hormones and my husband
"When I am in the throes of PMS everything I have never quite liked about him gathers an inch south of my belly button"
[Salon Headlines] 7:54:30 AM | permalink | comment [] |
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