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Archive for June, 2007
iPhone Update
I’m number ninety six in line. I’m about half way up, so I expect
there’s about 200 people here. The Apple guys have been by to pick
up trash and hand out slurpees (very nice!). They said we’d “be
fine” so I expect that the inventory is good. There’s lots of news
crews and reporters working the lines as well. People keep showing
up.
The security guards for the mall came by a while back and gave us
“the rules” regarding saving places, etc. People can swap in and out
of line, but if they try and save places for more people than are in
line, security will kick them out.
Rummors were that the Cingular store a block away didn’t have much of
a line, so a bunch of people jumped out a few hours ago and went
there. Some of them came back later–apparently the Cingular store
only had like 20 phones, so when […]
The Social Side of IT Conversations
Jon Udell’s Interviews
with Inovators submission for this week is a conversation
with Simon St Laurent. St. Laurent isn’t someone you’ll
necessarily meet at the next O’Reilly conference you go to. Jon
singles him out as an innovator because of his use of local blogs
reflect and enrich the life of a community. Jon says, “Day by day,
and year by year, he’s showing his fellow citizens that political
blogging doesn’t have to be bombastic and divisive. It can be a civil
dialogue that informs and unites.”
On his blog, Jon
asks why IT
Conversations and our sister channel Social Innovations
Conversations are different channels for different audiences. He
quotes Dean
Kamen from the Globeshakers series on SIC:
Given the enormous rate at which technology is moving forward, almost
all the ‘Can this be done?’ questions have essentially been answered
by ‘Yes.’ The much tougher question right now isn’t ‘What can we do
with technology?’ — it’s ‘What should we do with technology?’ That’s
a […]
Document Engineering
This week’s Technometria podcast is a discussion with Bob Glushko of
UC Berkeley’s iSchool. Bob’s book, Document
Engineering is a look at the methods people should
employ in designing the document that surround their business.
Document, in Bob’s view, is a very broad term, encompassing
everything from books and papers to XML. If you last week’s
discussion
with Dave Weinberger, then this week’s podcast will nice
complement to that.
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How the record industry killed itself–via the internet
Rolling Stone has a fascinating article about how the record industry’s bad choices at the start of the internet era ending up dooming it:
So who killed the record industry as we knew it? “The record companies have created this situation themselves,” says Simon Wright, CEO of Virgin Entertainment Group, which operates Virgin Megastores. While there are factors outside of the labels’ control —
One of My Favorite Trading “Set-Ups”
A fellow emailed me recently, asking: “Without giving away any precious secrets, could you tell me a way to improve…
12 chromatic tones from from physics of speech, say researchers
According to a Science Daily article:
The particular notes used in music sound right to our ears because of the way our vocal apparatus makes the sounds used in all human languages, said Dale Purves, the George Barth Geller Professor for Research in Neurobiology.
It’s not something one can hear directly, but when the sounds of speech are looked at with a spectrum analyzer, the relationships
Are there any network security lessons in Die Hard 4.0?
A movie about cyber-terrorists taking down the US infrastructure was inspired by reality. Disappointingly — but not surprisingly — Hollywood decided to make it more “interesting” [read: preposterous].
Insane in the Ukraine
French ‘Spiderman’ is at it again, climbing 207-foot building in Kiev, Ukraine.
The Forex Mailman Cometh
Ed Ponsi answers readers’ questions and gives his valuable insight.
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