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Heavy shit at end a heavy year

Heavy shit at end a heavy year 12/22/2004 01:09 AM

Mark Pesce - Out Of Control: The Sequel - Hollywood does it again

Adam Rifkin - W eblications (the Web Way and the web as a platform) - this guy just doesn't stop!

Mark Cuban - Hey Chad, get a blog! - in which Mark clues Chad Pennington into how to deal with the media

David Weinberger - Selfless Social Networks - ah, that's why

Barry Diller - Spins off Expedia - 'bout time - DLA for travel

Scott McMullen - Google/Internet Archive, Meet Mr. Event - can you say OpenEvents? Hey Scott - let's do it!

Joi Ito - N o more friends on Orkut - the end game

- New Media timeline - how can you have a New Media timeline without Director? Have they ever heard of Flash? Where do they think that came from? Rob Burgess? Kevin Lynch? Norm Meyrowitz?

The long tail is fractal. Why I buy the
long tail, having been a skeptic

The long tail is fractal. Why I buy the
long tail, having been a skeptic 03/29/2005 03:01 PM
The long tail is jagged, fractal – perhaps as any market achieves maximum efficiency it starts to look like everything...

Wizdom Announces Award of Phase II DoD
SBIR to Research Methods to Increase
Production of Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs):
Focal Plane Arrays Produced by Rockwell
Scientific are Crucial to Nation’s
Missile Defense System

Wizdom Announces Award of Phase II DoD
SBIR to Research Methods to Increase
Production of Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs):
Focal Plane Arrays Produced by Rockwell
Scientific are Crucial to Nation’s
Missile Defense System 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Wizdom Systems, Inc., a leading consulting and engineering services company has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research grant from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to research process and control methods that will significantly increase the yield in the production of Focal Plane Arrays (FPA), devices crucial to the successful deployment of the nations missile defense system. The project is managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory; Space Vehicles Directorate. Wizdom is teamed with Rockwell Science Center RSC of Thousand Oaks, California, which is the end producer of the FPAs. This grant marks Wizdom’s tenth SBIR awarded by the Federal Government. [PRWEB Oct 29, 2004]

cargo

cargo 01/11/2004 06:03 PM
What is it ? French ?

Air Cargo Insecurity

Air Cargo Insecurity 12/30/2004 09:08 AM
Technology Review Dec 30 2004 1:29PM GMT

Cargo Security Alliance

Cargo Security Alliance 09/04/2004 03:01 AM
MPS and GSC Join Forces To Address Cargo Security Issues [PRWEB Sep 4, 2004]

Computer cargo discovered

Computer cargo discovered 12/15/2003 12:14 AM
The Star Dec 14 2003 11:06PM ET

Computer cargo abandoned

Computer cargo abandoned 12/14/2003 04:08 PM
News24.com Dec 14 2003 3:26PM ET

Genesis to return its Sun cargo

Genesis to return its Sun cargo 09/07/2004 03:29 AM
The Genesis probe, which left Earth in 2001 to gather particles blown off the Sun, returns its samples on Wednesday.

Battening Cargo Against Terrorism

Battening Cargo Against Terrorism 03/08/2004 11:27 PM
A Washington state port will begin testing an anti-terrorism system next week, hoping it will prevent terrorists from planting nasty surprises inside cargo containers. By Daniel Terdiman.

Contemporary Cargo Cults

Contemporary Cargo Cults 12/30/2003 01:35 AM
Dam I have to start using categories again. This one would be filed under food for thought. I found this Via Adrian Lamo, but it is the first time that I actually read though it. John Fitzgerald observation of Cargo Cults and "history *is* doomed to repeat its self". Here is a chunk of it: ........ The cargo cult is founded on a familiar, and popular, bit of fallacious reasoning: post hoc ergo propter hoc. The residents of Papua, Yaliwan, Vanuatu and other places noticed that...

Sen. Schumer Says Air Cargo Security Lax

Sen. Schumer Says Air Cargo Security Lax 01/04/2004 06:57 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 4 2004 6:42PM ET

Wag the Tail

Wag the Tail 05/14/2004 10:51 AM
Wag the Tail version 0.1 released

Russian cargo spacecraft docks with ISS

Russian cargo spacecraft docks with ISS 08/15/2004 02:26 AM
Content.sina.com - Sat Aug 14, 08:24 am GMT

'GM cargo ship' campaigners held

'GM cargo ship' campaigners held 06/21/2004 10:11 PM
Twelve Greenpeace campaigners are arrested after a protest onboard a ship said to be carrying GM maize.

Computer cargo found abandoned in JHB

Computer cargo found abandoned in JHB 12/14/2003 09:05 AM
Business Day South Africa Dec 14 2003 7:35AM ET

Zimbabwe 'seizes US cargo plane'

Zimbabwe 'seizes US cargo plane' 03/08/2004 11:23 PM
A US-registered plane carrying suspected mercenaries is held in Harare, Zimbabwe's government says.

root-tail 1.1

root-tail 1.1 04/12/2004 07:21 AM
Allows printing of text directly to the X11 rootwindow

Tail gunning

Tail gunning 01/04/2005 02:08 AM
Wired editor Chris Anderson has started a good blog to follow up on his Long Tail essay and seed the ground for a book on the subject. Cory Doctorow takes Anderson to task for his "middle-of-the-road" stance on efforts to lock down intellectual property via increasingly desperate and continuingly futile technical schemes for digital rights management (DRM) -- schemes that tip the balance between propertyholders and the public way too far.

Anderson is dead right in elucidating the way the Net economy restores market value to works that are not big hits. The story of the next few years will be one about whether that market in "long tail" intellectual goods (I wrote about its promise in October) thrives in the same open environment that allowed the Net itself to evolve and prosper -- or shrivels under the furious weight of technical and legal efforts to squeeze every last dollar from every last little hair on the long tail. My money is on the former, happier outcome. But it won't turn out that way without persistent and stubborn resistance -- which we can thank Doctorow and the EFF for ringleading -- to the "we control the horizontal, we control the vertical" paternalism and anti-consumerism of the DRM mafia.

(For a little example of what happens when rights holders hold too many cards, check out the sad saga of "Eyes on the Prize," the documentary that is the "principal film account of the most important American social justice movement of the 20th century," in a Stanford professor's words from Wired News' account. "Eyes on the Prize" can't be publicly shown or distributed because "the filmmakers no longer have clearance rights to much of the archival footage used in the documentary." You want your audiovisual history? Pay up first!)

Assuming the Long Tail isn't clipped by DRMania, we face an ever-expanding banquet of media goods. The BBC sounds an alarm. We are coming face to face with the scourge of "digital obesity":

Gadget lovers are so hungry for digital data many are carrying the equivalent of 10 trucks full of paper in "weight". Music, images, e-mails, and texts are being hoarded on mobiles, cameras laptops and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), a Toshiba study found. It found that more than 60% kept 1,000 to 2,000 music files on their devices, making the UK "digitally fat".

Or maybe not. The term is a ludicrous oversimplification and distortion; we keep all this stuff around precisely because we can now -- because it doesn't fill trucks, it fills infinitesimal chips and drives, and it's easier to keep everything around than to worry about cleaning house. Carrying the stuff around? No problem. Finding it? Harder. Finding time to absorb it all? There's our rub.

Obesity is simply the wrong metaphor. Thi s post by Rajat Paharia hits closer to the mark:

I'm finding that the "digital photo effect" is starting to make its way into my music and video experiences as well. What's the DPE? My ability to produce and acquire has far outstripped my ability to consume. Produce from my own digital camera. Acquire from friends, family, Flickr, etc. This has a couple of ramifications: 1. I feel behind all the time. 2. Because there is so much to consume, I don't enjoy each individual photo as much as I did when they were physical prints. I click through fast. 3. Because of 1 and 2, sometimes I don't even bother.

I first noticed this phenomenon back in the late '80s, when I switched from buying music on vinyl to CDs, and noticed how quickly I stopped listening to an entire 50-60 minute CD if the first track or two didn't grab me. Of course, this kind of impatience coincided with the speeding up of my professional life and my crossing the threshold into my 30s. Something tells me that the problems Paharia and I and perhaps you are facing in this realm of overload may not feel so dire to today's teenagers and twenty-somethings, for whom this thick soup is a native muck.

Still, the "I feel behind all the time" phenomenon is real enough, as today's RSS addicts know -- and as indicated by the rising popularity among the geeknoscenti of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" methodology, with its promise of liberation from uncomfortable behind feelings.

I'm not liberated yet. Behindness surrounds me on all sides. But finding stuff is getting easier. I'm slowly trying to teach myself the methodology that Doctorow has modeled for several years now: If you want to be able to find something in the future, don't bury it in your files -- blog about it, put it out on the Net, where Google will never lose it, and if for some reason you can't find it, someone else will probably have picked it up and saved it for you.

So to hell with bookmarks, and long live the blogmark. Here's a handful:

Lexis Nexis Alacarte: No longer the preserve of big-media newsrooms -- now in handy personal-journalism size.

For years, I tuned my guitar with one of those little electronic tuners in a plastic box; but when they were two, my kids decided that it made a great toy and disembowelled it. Well, all that is solid melts into Net: Today you don't need a physical object, all you need is a Net connection and a browser. Just Google "guitar tuner" for a bunch of options; I liked this one for its retro look.

Feel-good link of the day: First it was the beer and wine, now it's spicy food! Curry may help block Alzheimer's disease. (It's the turmeric.)

The Long Tail

The Long Tail 12/31/2004 07:10 PM

The Long Tail: Here's something entertaining in an odd way. This page will pull a blog entry out of the...void.

Click "Next Item" to get another one. They come from blogs all around the world, and are presented with no context or other information (there is a link if you want to actually visit the site the entry came from).

Only about half of the entries I looked at were in English. All of them were posted in the last two minutes.

I can't figure out why this was so addictive. It's like little snippets of communication from anywhere and everywhere.

FC Now: Opportunities in the Tail

FC Now: Opportunities in the Tail 06/22/2005 02:39 AM
If you haven't yet heard - or used - the phrase 'the long tail,' you're not buzzword compliant for 2005. Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired Magazine, coined the phrase in an article that appeared last fall in that magazine....

Erasing the tail

Erasing the tail 09/26/2004 09:23 AM
The NY Times Magazine article on blogs makes the same old error. Viewing blogs through the media lens, only the left-hand of the side of the power curve is visible. As Matthew Klam, the article's author says: In a recent national survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that more than two million Americans have their own blog. Most of them, nobody reads Thus, the tail of the power curve — which is probably at least 5 million blogs long — gets erased. In fact, the tail is where blog are having their most important effects. That's where...

Mac Tail, iPod Dog?

Mac Tail, iPod Dog? 05/21/2004 01:01 AM
Is this a sign that Apple views the current Mac platform entering a period of relative stability after six years of flux? By Matthew Rothenberg (via MyAppleMenu)

Wagging Your Tail

Wagging Your Tail 03/14/2005 06:02 PM
Executive recruiter Dave Hardie on the benefits of leaving gracefully, consumer-products experience, and balancing We versus I.

'Smart' cargo containers coming to a
port near you

'Smart' cargo containers coming to a
port near you 10/31/2003 05:14 PM
A small group of shipping companies next month will begin using "smart" shipping containers equipped with high-tech devices that can tell officials whether cargo has been tampered with.

Activists board 'GM' cargo ship

Activists board 'GM' cargo ship 06/20/2004 02:36 PM
A group of Greenpeace protesters board a ship which they say is carrying genetically modified crops.

FedEx Studying Robot Cargo Planes

FedEx Studying Robot Cargo Planes 02/05/2005 09:44 PM
An article in the Memphis Business Journal describes research being done at the FedEx Institute of Technology to develop robot cargo planes that don't need pilots. The article doesn't give any specifics about the program but says it's "on the horizon". It may refer to the experiments some years ago in which Raytheon and FedEx autolanded a 727-200 cargo plane using LAAS and JPALS. At the time it was rumored they were going to work on a remotely piloted 727 next. The article says FedEx is also working on "performance enhancement" technology for their human workers that will "increase the human capacity to accomplish more work".

Computer cargo found abandoned in Joburg

Computer cargo found abandoned in Joburg 12/14/2003 09:05 AM
IOL Dec 14 2003 8:30AM ET

Intel demands Aer Lingus cargo u-turn

Intel demands Aer Lingus cargo u-turn 08/22/2004 12:25 AM
Sunday Business Post Aug 22 2004 4:27AM GMT

Intel urges Aer Lingus cargo U-turn

Intel urges Aer Lingus cargo U-turn 08/22/2004 06:16 AM
Ireland On-Line Aug 22 2004 10:32AM GMT

Progress Cargo Ship Launched From Russia

Progress Cargo Ship Launched From Russia 08/12/2004 12:57 AM
Abcnews.go.com - Wed Aug 11, 09:35 am GMT

Russian cargo ship brings supplies to
ISS

Russian cargo ship brings supplies to
ISS 05/28/2004 07:58 AM
AP via New Jersey Online May 28 2004 11:59AM GMT

The Long Tail of PayPal

The Long Tail of PayPal 03/14/2005 04:23 PM

While setting up the contribution mechanism at PayPal, I got to thinking about how PayPal is (or certainly has the potential to be) a Long Tail business. With lots of features, extensive documentation, tons of implementation examples, and no up-front fees, they make it so easy to sell anything to anyone worldwide that the cost of doing business for individuals and small businesses is almost nothing. My friends Tamara and Julie make soap in their apartment and sell it online for a few bucks a bar, with PayPal handling the checkout process and some of the order fulfillment stuff as well. And there are millions of little cottage industries like this scattered across the web, businesses enabled by PayPal each selling maybe a few items a week or month.

However, there are a couple of issues with PayPal's attempt to harness the Long Tail of online retail. Shipping costs are proportionally more expensive for less expensive items...it's roughly the same price to ship a $350 iPod as it is to ship a $20 book or tshirt. PayPal's fees are a bigger percentage of the total sale for cheaper items as well; they take $0.30 right off the top. That doesn't sound like a lot but for a merchant selling $3.00 items, that's 10% less profit, which could be a bit of a deterrent in wanting to sell cheap items through PayPal. It'll be interesting to see if PayPal sees a Long Tail effect benefiting their bottom line and tinkers with the fees to encourage more cheap offerings.

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail 10/07/2004 04:15 PM

Catch A Tiger By Its Tail

Catch A Tiger By Its Tail 06/29/2004 10:55 AM
Following up on my previous entry on Tiger's Search Technology I'll hit on the other announced features and additions with my personal feelings summing up...

E-tail soars in 2004

E-tail soars in 2004 01/05/2004 01:31 PM
ZDNet Jan 5 2004 12:19PM ET

J2SE 1.5: A Tiger By the Tail

J2SE 1.5: A Tiger By the Tail 06/28/2004 06:08 PM
JavaOne -- The Standard Edition is slated for a fall release via the Java Development Kit (JDK).

Extending the Long Tail

Extending the Long Tail 12/22/2004 01:52 AM
Meanwhile, Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired, (no relation) has just launched The Long Tail, the blog that follows his seminal article on the subject. Even better, he's got a book coming out on the topic. Now we just need a "most popular unpopular items" chart....

Incentives along the Long Tail

Incentives along the Long Tail 06/05/2005 11:21 PM
Chris Anderson has just published a great piece on his Long Tail blog called The dangers of "Headism". Go read it if you're into all that. If you're not into all that, I still think this picture is worth a thousand words: It explains a lot of what I've had to explain and re-explain to people in recent months. Heck, go to his post anyway just to look at the other pictures. They're simple but explain things nicely....
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