Ted Ritzer: nixMoneyMachine

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:32:01 GMT

Novell scores desktop Linux wins. Novell has signed an agreement to deliver 1,600 Linux powered desktop computers to high schools in the state of Indiana. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:27:36 GMT

SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 3 Screenshot Tour. DistroWatch reports - Third alpha release of SUSE Linux 10.1 has been announced and is ready for download. The most important changes include the following: "Update to KDE 3.5 RC1; update of GCC to the current 4.1 development version; removal of linuxthreads support; NetworkManager will be the new way of managing changing network interfaces, Kinternet is now in maintenance mode; update to Linux kernel 2.6.14.2... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 06:29:47 GMT

Will direct sales of attention data disintermediate publishers and Google Adsense? Looks like Seth w. My old friend Seth Goldstein just announced his new company, ROOT Markets. If first met Seth in Silicon Alley back in 96. He was running an interactive agency called SiteSpecific. While other folks were building web pages he was doing advertising campaigns. He was the cover story for the first issue of Silicon Alley Reporter in October of 1996.Seth's a brilliant guy, no doubt. He has often explained my various businesses successes and failures to me in very complex terms. I would respond &q... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 23:27:27 GMT

Google Weblog. The latest news on everyone's favorite search engine. [Most popular feeds from Syndic8.com]

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 02:38:59 GMT

Podcasting mechanics. After I posted yesterday's audio interview, Paul Schaeflein wrote to point out that I ought to be using RSS 2.0 enclosures in my feed so that enclosure-aware aggregators can download media objects. ... [Jon's Radio]

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 01:57:17 GMT

BBC: Blog picked as word of the year. Slow news day. [Scripting News]

nixMoneyMachine-Sticking it to the Status Quo!

Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:16:36 GMT

nixMoneyMachine-sticking it to the status quo!

this new category, came about as a direct result of my disgust with a recent headline about Microsoft releasing a product which has been called an iPod Killer! Fuck it, I have had with this kind of BS, where monopolies that don't have an innovative fiber in their being, watch the market and wade in after an innovator like Apple creates it out of nothing, and then ends up losing it, just because of the monoolie's sheer size and money reserves!

Microsoft did this against the Mac, then against Netscape! Do we as consumers have to keep supporting greedy monopolies!

I remember when Mosaic first came out and for me the Internet was a place where the little guy could innovate and create a decent living, and in some cases create fortunes based upon creativity, hard work and luck! The iPod Killer headline is so cynical, and it assumes that the only thing the consumer cares about is money, and that the only thing the producer concerns themselves with is money too!

Well how bout this, why don't we come up with some truly innovative business models that put the power in the hands of the content producer, and in the process create cheaper content, get more people producing digital content, and get more developing nations into the digital economy as well!

Accoring to Robert Young found of Red Hat:

"You can't compete with a monopoly by playing the game by the monopolist's rules."

Well fuck the old models, the old rules and the old approach to operating systems, software and digital content!

I have just had it with this bullshit, and this is what nixMoneyMachine is about, proposing new economic models to stick it to the status quo!

Stay tuned!