Annotated Jack Valenti. Nice (humorous) summary of why he’s wrong about copyrights done in the style of a commentary on his words.
Archive for April, 2002
Class. Quidditch for Muggles. Now they can’t play Pirates any more, this will have to do.
American Mile Markers. Matt Frondorf, a photographer and engineer, pointed a camera out the passenger window of a Ford Explorer, hooked the camera’s shutter release up to the odometer, and started driving from the Statue of Liberty (well, near it in New Jersey) to San Francisco. Every mile, the camera took a picture, resulting in 3,304 images that form mile markers for a cross-continental journey. Neato.
Transfer Drawings from Paper to Handheld with InkLink. This is like the Cross Pad, but a clip on. I wonder which partner will get one first?
Don’t Buy Hollywood’s Broadband Script. Good debunking of the Hollywood anti-digital stand. Hollywood declared videos illegal when they first came on the scene. They now take $11bn a year, around half the industry’s revenues. The same will happen with digital entertainment, if they just let it.
Five potential extensions to the Google toolbar.
A unified theory of software evolution. Meir Lehman has been studying the life cycles of computer programs since he was a researcher at IBM 30 years ago. One of these days he’s going to get it all figured out. [Salon.com]
NY Times: Google’s Toughest Search Is for a Business Model. The executives’ disdain for business meant they spent nothing to advertise their site and cut very few deals with other sites. They have insisted that the ads that do run on Google should employ only words, not pictures, so as not to slow the site’s amazingly quick response time. [Tomalak's Realm]
