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Endangered Species: Quaint Towns. Green
Hills. Vermont!
Endangered Species: Quaint Towns. Green
Hills. Vermont!
05/24/2004 06:59 PMThe list of "most endangered historic places" usually includes bridges
and homes, but this year it includes Vermont. All of it.
Software That Lasts For Years And Years
Software That Lasts For Years And Years
07/14/2004 06:51 PMWe were just talking about the
rise of
quick and dirty programs as a way for individuals (not necessarily
programmers) to solve specific needs. However, as was mentioned at
the time, that would be a different "tier" of software programming,
and there would still be a need for programmers to do higher level
"big" projects. In the past, we've also discussed
the
problem of data extinction, where old computer systems and formats
die out, leaving content and applications virtually useless on ancient
media. This is a big problem for many applications, and Dan Bricklin
is now suggesting that people need to start
designing "Societal
Infrastructure Software" that can last for centuries, not just a
few years. The idea is that this type of software shouldn't have to
worry about new computers or new formats or new anything... but will
be able to just keep on working. In order to build this, though,
Bricklin believes it will require embracing open source programming,
though not necessarily the way people view open source programming
today. It's a fascinating concept, but getting people to think
long-term is so difficult these days, that you wonder if such ideas
will actually catch on.
Five years, one day
Five years, one day
01/22/2004 02:19 PMYesterday I realized it has been five years since Evan and I founded Pyra, the
company that led to Blogger. We used to have a company weblog
called pyrAlert! (actually the software we wrote to publish pyrAlert!
was what lead to the creation of Blogger). This morning Paulo wrote to point out that pyrAlert! is still
online and you can go back into the archives and read what was
going on at Pyra in 1999. You may also notice that there are no
permalinks on any of the posts, because these posts were made BP, or
before permalink! It's funny to see the kind of stuff we used
to write about.
Are You Better Off Now Than You Were
Four Years Ago?
Are You Better Off Now Than You Were
Four Years Ago?
09/11/2004 12:25 PMStop being economic girly-men .. statistics never
lie
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Three Years On
Three Years On
09/11/2004 09:19 AM
Three Years On A sobering
analysis by Juan Cole of the strategic motivation behind 9/11.
10 years
10 years
06/05/2005 11:06 PMOn his site's tenth anniversary, Zeldman thanks you for the memories.
Four more years
Four more years
12/19/2004 03:55 PMBush is reelected President of the United States of America. Four more
years of abuse, torture, murder, ignorance and selfishness will
follow.
"three to four years old."
"three to four years old."
08/03/2004 02:42 PM4AD - The First 20 Years (brief)
4AD - The First 20 Years (brief)
04/14/2004 06:22 AMAn illustrated history of 4AD
Records
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10 Years Ago
10 Years Ago
12/30/2004 04:35 AMOK - so I didn't mark this exactly with an October 12th
anninversary - but it was 10
years ago that Dave Winer first 'blogged' me - rapping out my
Marc's 10 Things.
In honor of this auspicious anniversary - I'd like to comment on or
update many of these claims on things that the media should be
covering on Multimedia and Interactive TV but isn't.
I wrote (in 1994):
Interactive Music Videos
1. Interactive Liner notes are great. Repackaged old music is fine,
but MediaBand has started a new category - called Interactive Music
Videos - which are original pieces that combine songs, music videos
and videogames. It's a new artform that breaks down the barrier
between artist, musician and programmer.
I was in the midst of pushing our 'MediaBand' interactive
music video ensemble in 1994 - which put out a CD ROM, performed live,
had a screenplay and had it'sd own broadband network to interact with
folks - in real-time.
So I was seriously into brow beating all my colleagues who simply
licensed Bob Dylan or Prince and cranked out shitty ass CD ROMs. To
me - that really missed the essence of what was possible combining,
music, video and interactivity.
To this day, this new artform is just kind of bubbling beneath the
surface - not really making it out. Dance Dance Revolution is the
sign of times - now.
BTW a young artist named Moby took some of our MediaBand Director
files and added his own artwork and music to it. :-)
Kid's Content
2. Kids today see the twitchy-ness of Nintendo and they see the
production values of MTV. Multimedia today is neither. We need to
combine the interactivity of Nintendo with the production values of
MTV.
This area certainly has matured and grown. We were in
the videogame business back in '81-'83, but we never dreamed that
gaming would be so 'off the hook' - as it is today.
But Mimi (my daughter) has a great time playing with the Barbie
fashion Designer software - and Dora the Explorer rocks. So I'd say
this category has fulfilled it's destiny. At least so
far.
CD ROMs
3. We didn't call it a floppy disk industry, so how come it's a CD
ROM industry? In fact CD ROM [mentality] is holding back the
creativity and growth of the entire interactive digital media
industry.
Just take out CD ROM and insert 'web'. Same problem
exists today. This is why we have CMSs.
I call the solution to this challenge "scalable content". In fact
we were using this term way back in '94. Marqui outputs scalable
content - BTW.
So CMSs have matured and we don't have to convince folks to
de-couple their content from their form anymore. Thank goodness.
Scalable Content
4. Scalable content is an important concept when developing
interactive media today. You don't want to design yourself into a
corner, letting the technology define the content. Ideally you'd let
the content define the technology. Scalability means downsizing
through compression, it means user interfaces that work with both
single and multiple users, it means getting ready for Interactive
TV.
OK - so I just correlated how CD ROMs 'holding back'
creativity were similar to what happened with 'the web'. And I said
that we called that Scalable Content.
Now let's take my definition of Scalable Content (back then in '94)
and extend that to mean 'dynamic user interfaces' - that adjust
themselves to who you are, what level of technology you feel
comfortable with and what content you've created yourself.
It's amazing to me to read what I said in 1994, and see how these
words influenced my thoughts and ideas over the past 10 years and how
some of these ideas remain unchanged, while others have morphed and
adapted themselves to world today.
The word 'scalability' is just so malleable that you can twist and
turn it to mean anything you want it to mean. But is IT clear - that
us humans need to be in charge much more of our user experiences - and
THAT's a key part of 'activity based computing'.
Audio
5. The classic line is "Audio is the orphan child of multimedia" -
why do people still say this? What is behind the hodge-podge of audio
- especially on the PC? How come it's taken so long for manufacturers
to include audio on their motherboards? In 1984 it was $3 in
parts!
MIDI II?
6. What about MIDI? How many people know what that is? Why isn't
there an advanced MIDI format in place? The original MIDI frequency
standard (32k) is based a 1Mhz crystal readily available in 1982.But
what's the problem today? Why hasn't MIDI evolved and grown?
RAM
7. RAM apparently is not following along the path of Moore's Law.
The price is still where it was 5 years ago and systems are suffering.
Today MPC II is still speced at only 4M - MediaBand needs 8M. Standard
business systems should have at least 16M TODAY!
Tee Hee Hee.
You see I'm a musician by training and we put out the first music
product for computers that had a piano timeline notational system,
qurter note and eigth notes and a piano and real-time interaction.
That was 1984.
So 10 years after that - in 1994 - I was bitching about.... well
it's now 10 years later and we still don;t have clean audio solved.
But we're getting pretty close. Podcastign is evidence of that.
Time stamp - Dec. 2004 - $60 for a 128M MP3 player. Retail
price.
MIDI II got usurped by all sorts of things - including OSC - I keynoted at their
conference this summer.
Amd I just love to see Shawn Fanning appear in "The Italian Job"
and just adore the notion that Mark Cuban sold broadcast.com for
$5.6B.
All this is evidence that they'll be plenty more Googles, Netscapes
and Eminems.
Set top tests waste of time?
8. The whole industry hopped when John Malone announced he was
going to deploy one million set top boxes with MPEG chips in them.
Once it became clear that he was practicing FUD, everyone backed off
of their predictions, delayed their test trials and are now waiting
for the next thing to react to. The tests going on (or planned to
start soon) are not based upon the same technology or even marketing
premises. What good will these tests do? Will any of these tests
actually grow into a real service network.
Interactive Commercials
9. What exactly is an Interactive TV commercial. Lots of people
talk about it, but no one does them.
This one is dedicated to Om Mailk. I hope to see him
tomorrow night at
the Geek Dinner.
I spent allot of the 90's waiting for and explaining why set top
boxes suck. They still do. Oh well.
Set top boxes have always been a kind of thorn in my side. In fact
I hope to get a Comcast PVR setup in time for the Alias 2 hour season
premiere on Jan. 5th. Wanna guess how long it'll take to get?
And the Interactive Ads future - is in John Battelle's able hands.
Search meets ads in the valley of the targeted consumer. It's finally
here.
Support?
10. Where's the support? As the industry moves towards 900 #
support and low priced consumer software, what happens to support?
Dealers obviously can't supply it. Is this a new growth market?
Well we're still looking for good Support.
I don't think that will ever change.
OK - so that's it - my 10 year update. I hope you enjoyed it.
Also - how symbolic that
Dave's post show's my old Applelink address which went back to
1985. We were the 10th Mac developer. That's why I was D0010.
Five Years, That's All We've Got
Five Years, That's All We've Got
12/13/2003 11:02 PMMuch has changed at evolt.org over its five years. Much has not. We
are the change we want to see in the world.
74 Years Old
74 Years Old
08/05/2004 11:29 PM
"The application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to Justice Kennedy and by him referred to the Court is
denied." Hours later, James Hubbard is injected with lethal
chemicals and
dies in
Atmore, Alabama.
Hubbard
, convicted of a 1977 murder, was 74 years old, demented, and
retarded. File this one under "it's not cruel and unusual if you
don't know what's happening to you."
Seven years
Seven years
03/19/2005 02:37 AMI started kottke.org
seven years ago this week. I forget the anniversary until after the
fact every year even though I know it's sometime in March (for
whatever reason almost everything important in my life has happened in
March, at least for the last few years). Seven years is way longer
than I would have guessed keeping the site going on a near-daily
basis...it's the longest I've ever done anything, even longer than all
but a handful of friendships. So happy birthday, old friend, it's been
fun. (0sil8 started in March as
well...nine years ago.)
Five years
Five years
01/22/2004 02:36 AMMeg just wrote and pointed out
that
Pyra was
incorporated five years ago today.
Two Years
Two Years
06/17/2005 06:08 PM... ago today, the Pie wiki was created. During that period, we
had interminable naming discussions, a lengthy process of selecting a
standards body, endless discussion on dates, and a last call. One week
from today, format-09 is scheduled to be reviewed by the IESG.
Five years!
Five years!
03/19/2003 10:24 PMThe first post to this weblog was made on March 14, 1998, making it
five years old last week. I'm trying to recall where all
Three Years Since
Three Years Since
09/12/2004 04:38 PMI left work on September 10th at 9:00 PM. An hour before, my coworker
was getting nervous. She was leaving on a trip to Italy on the 12th
and wanted to meet me at 8:30 AM on the 11th to go over what projects
of hers I needed to steer in her absence. I rolled my eyes and
complained that no one schedules meetings at 8:30 in the morning, and
convinced her to postpone the meeting to 10:00 AM.
Six years!
Six years!
04/09/2004 04:11 PMTime is flying by so quickly these days, so I didn't notice on March
14th that this weblog is now six years old. Except for the basics
(eating, sleeping, remaining alive), I've never stuck with anything
for six years straight, so it's hard for me to believe I'm still here
doing this. Six years!...
100 Years of Einstein
100 Years of Einstein
12/30/2004 02:22 PM486 Turns 15 Years Old
486 Turns 15 Years Old
06/12/2004 09:41 AMCopyright in Eight Years
Copyright in Eight Years
08/05/2004 01:50 AMSo today copyright scholar Joe Liu at Boston College asked a room full
of law professors an interesting question. What did we think copyright
would look like in 8 years? Here were some of the main categories of
predictions (some contradict):...
Man gets nine years for spamming
Man gets nine years for spamming
04/08/2005 07:49 PMA US man gets nine years in jail for sending millions of junk emails
selling pornography and sham products.
Ichiro: four more years
Ichiro: four more years
12/18/2003 03:43 PMIchiro agreed to a
new
four-year deal with the Mariners. Whew!
evolt.org - Three and a Bit Years On
evolt.org - Three and a Bit Years On
05/23/2002 10:39 PM30 years of the internet
30 years of the internet
01/01/2004 01:03 AMBBC Jan 1 2004 0:16AM ET
100 Years of Macintosh
100 Years of Macintosh
01/01/2004 03:18 AMZero seconds on the Mac OS system clock is January 1, 1904. The Mac OS
epoch hits 100 years ... now. That's assuming you live in the Pacific
time zone, anyway: ...
Three Years Of Sideshow
Three Years Of Sideshow
07/10/2004 10:36 AMThe latest Sideshow Collectibles general newsletter just showed up in
my inbox and features a link to a press release that runs through some
of the details behind their planned 1/4 scale characters.
Click here to read about how "Sideshow Collectibles
and Lucasfilm Enter Three-Year Agreement to Produce Star Wars
Collectibles".
Yahoo! is ten years old
Yahoo! is ten years old
03/14/2005 04:24 PMYahoo! turned ten years old this week which makes me feel like I'm
about ready for the retirement home. As part of their celebration,
they put up a copy of
their home page from 1995. I poked around a little and found a copy from December
1994 from when the site was still hosted at Stanford on a server
called akebono. To do it up
right, download an
early version of Mosaic or Netscape, change your screen resolution
to 640x480 with 256 colors, and surf the page that way. Just don't
blame me if you get all weepy after seeing the gray background and
pulsing N in the corner of the browser.
Note: I have no idea if any of these browsers will even work on OS
X or Windows XP...you might need to dust off that 486 running Win95 or
a 7100 running System 8.
HIV: 20 Years of Research
HIV: 20 Years of Research
04/12/2004 12:52 AMLooks Like The PC's Best Years Are
Behind It
Looks Like The PC's Best Years Are
Behind It
07/13/2004 11:41 PMToday's stagnant PC world is a far cry from the golden era when
exciting innovations emerged every few months. By Carl Skadian,
Straits Times (via MyAppleMenu)
"criticised for the last 20 years"
"criticised for the last 20 years"
06/12/2004 09:26 AM20 years of the Macintosh
20 years of the Macintosh
12/09/2003 08:41 PMIn 1984, Apple released one of the most expensive and effective
commercials of all time during the SuperBowl. This commercial
introduced the Macintosh, a revolutionary new concept in personal
computing, to the world. In January of next year, the Macintosh will
celebrate its 20th anniversary, and it is probable Apple will do
something spectacular to celebrate this impressive milestone.
100 years of Einstein!
100 years of Einstein!
12/31/2004 01:53 AM
Einstein's miraculous centenary - "A century after Einstein's
miracle year, most people still do not understand exactly what it was
he did. Here, we attempt to elucidate."
[oh a
nd, al
so see
:] What Does 4.4 Billion Years Look Like?
What Does 4.4 Billion Years Look Like?
04/10/2005 07:27 AMSci-Tech Today Apr 10 2005 10:40AM GMT
What Does 4.4 Billion Years Old Look
Like?
What Does 4.4 Billion Years Old Look
Like?
04/10/2005 07:27 AMSci-Tech Today Apr 10 2005 10:40AM GMT
Spammer Gets Nine Years
Spammer Gets Nine Years
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Columbine, five years later
Columbine, five years later
04/20/2004 08:39 AMThe kids who survived the worst school massacre in U.S. history have
graduated, and some of them have even forgiven. But many of their
parents have not.
Firebird At 20 Years
Firebird At 20 Years
09/06/2004 11:00 AMSlashdot Sep 6 2004 3:14PM GMT
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