The conspiracy against our in-boxes
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Boxes and boxes of iPod socks! [Flickr]
Boxes and boxes of iPod socks! [Flickr]
12/17/2004 06:42 PM"Conspiracy"
"Conspiracy"
09/13/2004 09:46 PMConspiracy?
Conspiracy?
01/16/2004 11:01 AMOn the subject of NetNewsWire requiring that Atom feeds be well-formed
XML, Mark Pilgrim
wrote:
A member of the RSS advisory board -- a group whose
charter explicitly states that you "advocate for RSS" -- has announced
that he will use his product's dominant market position to punish
his own paying customers by applying a double standard that makes Atom
appear less useful than RSS.
I'm not usually given to conspiracy theories, but Jesus H.
Christ, are you f$@#ing kidding me?
Good question.
I’m not trying to cut down on Atom’s chance of being
popular. On the contrary—what I haven’t expressed is that
I’m
excited by the chance to do this right, to not have
the ugly workarounds in my code that exist just to parse that minority
of bad RSS feeds.
I certainly didn’t discuss my decision with other members of the
RSS board.
If Atom’s popularity is dependent on whether parsers are liberal
or not, then that’s a problem with Atom, or Atom feed
generators, not the parsers. I don’t think that this is the
case: I think Atom will be popular whether parsers are strict or
liberal. And I think NetNewsWire will help Atom become popular.
What I’d like to see is a commitment to well-formed XML on the
part of everybody that has anything to do with Atom. Atom has the
chance to set a high standard, not just as a good spec but as
good-in-practice. I bet Mark agrees with me on this.
Little Boxes
Little Boxes
05/09/2004 11:30 AMfor those still bellyaching about CSS positioning
FC Now: Conspiracy of Fools
FC Now: Conspiracy of Fools
03/14/2005 06:02 PMKurt Eichenwald's new book on the Enron scandals, Conspiracy of Fools,
is being published today. It's richly-detailed and highly
illuminating. Eichenwald portrays the debacle as an explosive
combination of crime and incompetence. He shows how CFO Andy Fastow
and his...
The Volokh Conspiracy
The Volokh Conspiracy
11/19/2003 08:04 AMupdated his post .. brings it .. (§) ..
posts
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The Spike conspiracy
The Spike conspiracy
09/17/2004 10:39 AMHis latest film has enraged lesbians, but Spike Lee is used to causing
a stir. He talks about George W. Bush, male sexual fantasy and how
nothing in life is quite as it seems.
Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy Theories
11/07/2003 08:47 AM CBC's long-running series
The Fifth Estate recently ran a
very unsettling episode (in Canada) entitled '
Conspirac
y Theories'.
The show dealt with all manner of claims surrouding 9-11 including a
possible
US/Saudi/
Bin Laden connection,
major
intelligence breakdowns, etc. Their
website provides further reading for those who like to believe the worst.
The Microsoft and SCO conspiracy
The Microsoft and SCO conspiracy
03/06/2004 01:54 AMI am not into speculation nor am I into pointing fingers when
documents are put on the web and conspiracy...
"The Volokh Conspiracy"
"The Volokh Conspiracy"
12/19/2003 11:55 AMconspiracy theory 911
conspiracy theory 911
04/26/2004 02:04 AM
September 11th panel working to overcome conspiracy theories. The Volokh Conspiracy - -
The Volokh Conspiracy - -
03/22/2005 09:58 PMfisks the recent ABC poll .. Biased
Questions
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CSS Shadow Boxes
CSS Shadow Boxes
01/24/2004 10:36 PMShadow Boxing:
Well-done, simple technique for shadowed boxes with CSS.
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MSNBC - Conspiracy Redux
MSNBC - Conspiracy Redux
07/19/2004 06:36 AMMERYL STREEP: I'M NOT PLAYING HILLARY .. preview article .. Jonathan
Demme .. Yeah Right
msnbc.msn.com/id/5457032/site/newsweek
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The liberal college conspiracy
The liberal college conspiracy
09/20/2004 08:24 AMConservatives like David Brooks love to blame academics for making
lopsided donations to Democrats. A closer look reveals otherwise.
Incompetence or conspiracy? No-one's
saying
Incompetence or conspiracy? No-one's
saying
12/10/2003 11:22 PMSunday Times South Africa Dec 10 2003 10:46PM ET
Former WorldCom CFO Pleads to Conspiracy
(AP)
Former WorldCom CFO Pleads to Conspiracy
(AP)
06/07/2004 10:24 PMAP - Scott Sullivan, former chief financial officer of WorldCom,
pleaded guilty Monday to one count of conspiracy to commit securities
fraud, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said.
The conspiracy to disconnect VoIP
The conspiracy to disconnect VoIP
06/17/2004 01:19 PMZDNet Jun 17 2004 5:32PM GMT
The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and
Stupid
The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and
Stupid
10/31/2003 03:54 AMWebsite Of The Day: The Conspiracy To Keep You Poor And Stupid .. what
it did to Donald Luskin’s .. blogger ..
sallies
poorandstupid.com/chronicle.asp
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International Jewish Conspiracy
International Jewish Conspiracy
11/14/2003 01:47 PM Internat
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Jackson: I'm the Victim of a Conspiracy
(AP)
Jackson: I'm the Victim of a Conspiracy
(AP)
03/27/2005 11:59 AMAP - Declaring himself "completely innocent" of child molestation
charges, Michael Jackson said Sunday that he is the victim of a
conspiracy and asked fans around the world to pray for him.
Conspiracy theories springing up
Conspiracy theories springing up
02/03/2003 10:14 AMOne person on Google noted that shuttle debris came down in the
general area of Palestine, Texas, while another observed that this was
the first time that an ...
Jackson Says He's Victim of Conspiracy
(AP)
Jackson Says He's Victim of Conspiracy
(AP)
03/27/2005 09:37 PMAP - Declaring himself "completely innocent" of child molestation
charges, Michael Jackson said Sunday that he is the victim of a
conspiracy and asked fans around the world to pray for him.
McMurder * COM * Global Conspiracy
McMurder * COM * Global Conspiracy
05/05/2004 09:43 AMMcMurder.com Threatened with Legal Action ..
McMurder
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boxes and arrows turns 2
boxes and arrows turns 2
04/16/2004 01:06 AMi can't believe i've been reading the site that long already. it's
still a great MT site.
New virus hitting in-boxes
New virus hitting in-boxes
01/26/2004 06:31 PMAntivirus firms warn PC users of a new mass-mailing computer virus
that has lodged itself into a large number of PCs by masquerading as
an e-mail error.
How to Add Fluid Borders to Your Boxes
with CSS
How to Add Fluid Borders to Your Boxes
with CSS
06/05/2005 11:48 PMIn the last tutorial you learned how to style a definition list. This
week, you'll delve deeper into this process and learn how to add
different fluid borders to your boxes using just CSS. By Stu Nicholls.
0523
Social Software for Set-Top boxes...
Social Software for Set-Top boxes...
03/23/2005 07:59 PMYou can download the core part of the material that follows as a
PDF presentation entitled Social Software for Set-Top Boxes (4Mb).
A buddy-list for television:
Imagine a buddy-list on your television that you could bring onto your
screen with the merest tap of a 'friends' key on your remote control.
The buddy list would be the first stage of an interface that would let
you add and remove friends, and see what your friends are watching in
real-time - whether they be watching live television or something
stored on their PVRs. Adding friends would be simple - you could enter
letters on screen using your remote, or browse your existing friends'
contact lists.
Being able to see what your friends were watching on television
would remind you of programmes that you also wanted to see, it would
help you spot programmes that your social circle thought were
interesting and it could start to give you a shared social context for
conversations about the media that you and your friends had both
enjoyed.
Obviously there might be some programmes that you might wish
to view with a significant other, but wouldn't necessarily want to
advertise to the rest of the world that you were watching. For this
reason your personalised settings would have to have all kinds of
options to help you control how you were being represented to the
wider world that were as simple to use and unobtrusive as possible.
Primary among the tools at your disposal would be your ability to tell
your set-top box not to advertise that you were watching any shows
marked as for adults only and to mark certain channels as similarly
private. These settings would obviously be on by default.
Presence alerts:
One of the core functions of a socially enabled set-top box would be
to create the impression of watching television alongside your
peer group and friends - even if you were geographically distant from
one another. One key way to do this would be to create a sensation of
simultaneity - to remind you that there are other people in your
social circle doing things at the same time as you. This would allow
you to create a mental impression of what your friends were doing.
Here are two versions of an alert that could fade up gently onto
the screen when someone on your buddy list changes channel. These
alerts would work in two ways - if the person was changing channel and
landed on a station as a programme was just about to begin or within
the first three or four minutes of a programme, then the alert would
be immediate. This would give you the opportunity to change over to
that channel as well without missing too much of the show. If -
however - they were changing over to a channel in the middle of a show
or they changed the channel again within ten seconds, then the alert
would not be sent. They would have to have been watching the new
channel for a few minutes before an alert would be sent. There would
be nothing more intrusive and irritating than watching someone
compulsively flick between channels at a distance (except perhaps
being in the room with them as they did so).
The most important part of all these alerts is that they provide
you with the option to join the person concerned in whichever
programme they happen to now be watching...
Watch with your friends:
Now we have the concept of joining a friend to watch a show, we have
to ask what should that experience be like? How should your parallel
engagement manifest itself. Traditionally, net-mediated social spaces
have tended towards text as a communicative medium. But this would
seem like an enormously clumsy way to interact during a television
programme.
Television is an audio-visual medium and there's no reason why your
engagement with your friends shouldn't also be audio-visual. For this
reason a simple high quality webcam above the television would help
you see how your friends were responding to what was on screen - it
would help you feel an experience of shared engagement without there
being a need for overt discussion. By default your conversations with
your friends would be muted, and you could - of course - minimise
their images if they started to get annoying, but if you wanted to
shout and scream alongside your friends, then you'd simply turn the
sound back on. This would be the perfect form of engagement around
certain sporting events, or for making a well-known television
programme or film just the backgrounded context for a shared
conversation.
In the mock-up below, you can see the cameras of three of your
friends on the right. One person has wandered away from their
TV...
Chatting and planning:
If your friends were in the room with you during an ad break, you
might chat about the programme you've just been watching or bitch
about the adverts in front of you. You might turn the sound down low
for a few seconds and talk about something else completely. There are
lots of contexts where the programme on television might not be
the main focus of activity around the television. These might
be times when it's still important to have a sense of what's happening
on the screen, but where the social activity has been dragged to the
foreground.
Set-top box social software would have to support such engagements.
So how about a second view when you're in one of these social
situations? From having the programme in the foreground, one simple
switch of the button could drag your friends into the limelight. The
programme could be fully or partially muted, and your friends
automatically unmuted. Then you could chat to each other about the
programme you'd just watched, or wait for the adverts to end together.
You could even use these opportunities to plan what to watch next. If
this was handled in a similar way to group formation and parties in
online gaming structures like Halo 2, then perhaps one person could
even set up the next programme and stream it to everyone else, or cue
forward to show their friends the best part of a particular dance
sequence or the key quote from a political interview.
Choosing channels and playing games:
Having this technology in place under your television could create a
tremendous platform for all kinds of other applications or games to be
layered on top of your television experience. And these could be
equally usable with people in the same room as yourself. If you gave
everyone a personalised remote control (or installed universal remote
control software in something like a mobile phone) then people could
propose changing channels but be over-ruled by other people in the
room. The wonderful browsing experience of flicking through music
video channels could be turned into a game, with each song being rated
on the fly by everyone present or telepresent and records kept of
channels and songs that people tended to enjoy. The same controls
could be hooked up to other forms of interactive television or to
net-enabled functionality on the boxes themselves...
Sharing a social library:
And finally, to return to the idea of media discovery and regenerating
a social context around television programming, how about if the shows
that many of your friends had decided in advance to record were
automatically recorded by your device too. How would it be if you
never missed the show that everyone was talking about? And if you had
- your box could ask its peers for some kind of swarmed download if
anyone still had a copy and it could appear in your local library
overnight.
All this of course, is just the very beginning of the kinds of
things that you could create with a socially-enabled TV set-top box.
It's all basically just extensions of stuff that we're already doing
in other media. There are still technological barriers of course -
bandwidth and synchronisation being core problems. But we're gradually
on the way to solving them.
To repeat - If you'd like to download this piece as a simple to
read and print PDF presentation then you can do so here: Social Software for Set-Top Boxes (4Mb).
Addendum:
Here are a few related links that people have
brought to my attention since posting this stuff up or since I
finished work on the presentation and illustrations. I'm a little
cross with myself for not posting this stuff up before, but hey...
Read the comments
Black Boxes for Spacecrafts
Black Boxes for Spacecrafts
04/17/2005 02:54 PMDueling Music Boxes
Dueling Music Boxes
08/13/2004 09:15 PMThis week I've been playing with three new products designed to bring
your digital music library into your home stereo system. By Jason
Snell, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)
Subtraction: New Boxes, Same Arrows
Subtraction: New Boxes, Same Arrows
08/22/2004 09:23 AMNew Boxes, Same Arrows - classy proposed redesign for Boxes and Arrows
.. Khoi Vinh's outstanding redesign contest mockups .. Excellent
redesign
concept
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Cable boxes bulking up
Cable boxes bulking up
04/04/2005 03:09 PMUSA Today Apr 4 2005 6:37PM GMT
The Curious Incident of the Boxes
The Curious Incident of the Boxes
05/18/2004 10:46 PMAn auction of Arthur Conan Doyle's artifacts has provoked a fight and
a mystery almost worthy of Sherlock Holmes himself.
Microsoft launches set-top boxes
Microsoft launches set-top boxes
09/15/2004 09:55 AMDigital Television Group Sep 15 2004 1:45PM GMT
Update DTC list boxes
Update DTC list boxes
08/23/2002 08:00 AMCNET Aug 22 2002 10:24PM ET
Left-wing conspiracy against Rush!
Left-wing conspiracy against Rush!
05/28/2004 12:42 PM"Bilderberg: The Ultimate Conspiracy
Theory"
"Bilderberg: The Ultimate Conspiracy
Theory"
06/04/2004 08:14 PMin other news, there is no evil
microsoft conspiracy
in other news, there is no evil
microsoft conspiracy
07/01/2004 05:17 PM
What the heck? Now even Slate is saying that
you should ditch IE and switch
to Firefox. But, as they say in the article, Slate is owned by
Microsoft...
The Hunted on the vast right-wing
conspiracy
The Hunted on the vast right-wing
conspiracy
06/17/2004 05:57 PMGrok Description matches for The conspiracy against our in-boxes
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I want This Driver
I want This Driver
08/16/2004 07:37 PMTechTree Aug 16 2004 11:16PM GMT
driver 8
driver 8
06/17/2005 04:28 PMAs an actor and writer, husband and father, I have two
often-conflicting monkeys on my back: Monkey number one is...
New SIS AGP Driver v.1.21
New SIS AGP Driver v.1.21
04/14/2005 03:36 PMAnarres-Mud-Driver-0.25
Anarres-Mud-Driver-0.25
12/07/2003 06:25 PMHit-and-run driver gets 11 years
Hit-and-run driver gets 11 years
06/21/2004 06:02 AM
A man who admitted causing the deaths of a mother and two children in
a hit-and-run incident is jailed for 11 years.
Driver Cleaner 3.2
Driver Cleaner 3.2
07/01/2004 05:18 PMTechzonez Jul 1 2004 9:32PM GMT
VIA Hyperion 4-in-1 Driver v4.51
VIA Hyperion 4-in-1 Driver v4.51
12/02/2003 09:55 AMThese drivers include IDE Busmaster, VIA AGP Driver, IRQ Routing
Driver, and VIA ACPI Registry. [Driver 1.31 MB]
ATI Linux Driver 3.9.0
ATI Linux Driver 3.9.0
05/28/2004 09:31 PMPFJDBC Driver
PFJDBC Driver
02/14/2004 05:46 AMAlpha released
New ATI WDM Capture driver
New ATI WDM Capture driver
11/14/2003 10:20 AMi want the driver of 2300c
i want the driver of 2300c
08/28/2004 11:17 AMTechTree Aug 28 2004 2:37PM GMT
Double Driver v1.0
Double Driver v1.0
08/30/2004 04:50 AMDirect and Related Links for 'Double Driver
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Feel free to use and give this program to anyone you know. Your
feedback would be greatly appreciated. Double Driver Features * View
installed drivers * Backup drivers * Restore drivers * Save drivers
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NGO ATI Optimized Driver v2.5.6
NGO ATI Optimized Driver v2.5.6
06/24/2005 03:11 PMVIA Driver Updates
VIA Driver Updates
12/09/2003 01:14 PMExcellent Driver
Excellent Driver
05/12/2004 02:15 PMTim Bray: <em>reachservices is a good example of what
the
SOA deployments of the future will look like. I think that if there
are
any protocols, technologies, or standards that turn out not to be
necessary for this project, then maybe they’re not that
necessary
at all.</em> Let's read the fine print: ...
Driver Magician v1.7
Driver Magician v1.7
02/15/2004 02:27 PMDriver Magician is an easy-to-use and powerful tool that helps you to
extract device drivers from your hard disk and back up them to a
specified location. when you reinstall operation system after system
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Moreover, Driver Magician can back up and restore more items such as
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This Humvee Is Car and Driver
This Humvee Is Car and Driver
02/19/2004 06:06 AMCarnegie Mellon University's Red Team unveils a fully autonomous robot
Humvee designed to race across a desert with no human intervention.
Lore Sjöberg reports from San Francisco.
Wireless Driver for Mac 2.1
Wireless Driver for Mac 2.1
04/19/2004 08:24 PMMac OS X Wireless 802.11a/b/g Based Network Driver.
Driver is arrested over car art
Driver is arrested over car art
01/11/2004 01:33 PMDriver is arrested over car art; Police seize boyfriend's auto with
nude dancer painted on it .. What is America coming to when you can't
have a nude girl on your
car?
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A car with brains (no, not the driver)
A car with brains (no, not the driver)
05/03/2004 11:31 PMStraits Times May 4 2004 4:12AM GMT
AMD Athlon 64 Driver 1.1.0.9
AMD Athlon 64 Driver 1.1.0.9
05/09/2004 05:18 PMDriver On Demand
Driver On Demand
05/10/2004 05:58 AMdriver On demand alpha 1 released
Anarres-Mud-Driver-0.26
Anarres-Mud-Driver-0.26
12/28/2003 11:44 PMHardSID driver
HardSID driver
12/27/2003 02:51 PMRelease 0.16
Tcl compression driver
Tcl compression driver
09/01/2004 09:34 AMInitial Release
"Crackseat Driver"
"Crackseat Driver"
11/04/2003 09:28 PMWWW-ShopBot-Driver-0.006
WWW-ShopBot-Driver-0.006
03/16/2003 09:38 AMNGO ATI Optimized Driver v2.2 (Cat 5.3)
NGO ATI Optimized Driver v2.2 (Cat 5.3)
03/19/2005 02:30 AMWWW-ShopBot-Driver-0.004
WWW-ShopBot-Driver-0.004
03/13/2003 10:14 AMDriver Signing
Driver Signing
04/01/2005 11:15 AM The conspiracy against our in-boxes
