Making The Most Of Season's Big Gift: iPod
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iPod: The Gift That Keeps On Going
iPod: The Gift That Keeps On Going
12/17/2004 06:26 PMApple couldn't ask for a better dilemma -- with nine days left
until Christmas, retailers are reporting a shortage of the popular
iPod digital music player. By Cynthia L. Webb, Washington Post
iPod a top 10 Christmas gift
iPod a top 10 Christmas gift
12/03/2003 12:10 PMBusiness Wire has included the 10GB iPod in the mp3 players section
of its Top 10 list of electronic Christmas gifts. "The Apple iPod 10GB
MP3 Player downloads an entire CD of music in 15 seconds - and is
available in Mac or Windows-compatible versions." The Rio Sport 128MB
player also made the list. Also on the list are digital cameras, Flat
panel televisions Portable DVD players, Recordable DVD players, and
digital camcorders.
iPod Gift Offerings, Part 1
iPod Gift Offerings, Part 1
12/09/2003 01:29 AMTo help you decide on such a gift, the following are some of my
favorite iPod-related products. By Dan Frakes (TidBITS via
MyAppleMenu)
iPod mini in 2004 MTV Movie Awards gift
bags
iPod mini in 2004 MTV Movie Awards gift
bags
06/09/2004 03:24 PMPresenters and performers at the 2004 MTV Movie Awards received a gift
bag stuffed with an iPod mini and several accessories from Digital
Lifestyle Outfitters...
Making A Strong Case For The iPod
Making A Strong Case For The iPod
08/31/2004 04:05 AMGo ahead -- drop your Apple iPod on the gym floor. Smush it with a
weight. Take it with you while you're kayaking or kickboxing or
running in the rain. But first -- get an oPod. By Lisa Ryckman, Rocky
Mountain News (via MyAppleMenu)
iPod users making the switch to Mac
iPod users making the switch to Mac
12/24/2004 12:57 PMTwo Wall Street Journal writers received reader responses that support
the fact that the iPod "halo effect" is working...
iPod making big strides in Japan, iTunes
within a year
iPod making big strides in Japan, iTunes
within a year
08/19/2004 08:08 AMApple's iPod digital music player is winning over fans in Japan,
according to a report from the Associated Press today...
Season's Greetings from MacMinute
Season's Greetings from MacMinute
12/24/2003 12:17 PMWell, we've nearly reached the end of another year, and what a year it
has been! First and foremost, I'd like to wish all of our readers,
sponsors, and the developer community warmest wishes for the
holidays...
Season's Greetings from MacMinute!
Season's Greetings from MacMinute!
12/24/2004 12:57 PMAs we prepare to wrap up another year here at MacMinute, we would like
to wish all of our readers, sponsors, and the developer community
warmest wishes for the holidays...
Season's Greetings and Global Voices
Season's Greetings and Global Voices
12/25/2004 04:50 PM
It's 6AM Christmas morning in Japan right now. Today I'm reflecting
on the past year and thinking about the future and I'm thinking about
Global Voices. Hopefully most of you are with your family with some
time to relax, think about priorities and reflect. I'm sure there are
a lot of TV shows about "Peace on earth, goodwill to men," and you've
probably sent and received a lot of UNICEF Christmas cards. You should
be in the perfect mood to think about Global Voices. In the past, we
had to rely on TV shows to try to feel empathy for people in other
countries and organizations such as UNICEF to try to give our support
to humanitarian efforts. These were and are noble efforts. However, at
our fingertips, we have the ability to reach out and speak to, build
bridges with and interact with those people we have been "wishing
well" to in the abstract for all of these years. We have a long way to
go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I
believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for
the World Peace we all wish for.
We have changed the "Global Voices Manifesto" to "Global Voices
Covenant 0.2". We have edited it for awhile on the wiki, but this
version is frozen.
I'm not normally a very religious person, but I feel pretty
religious about this.
Global
Voices Covenant 0.2
We believe in free speech: in protecting the
right to speak -- and the right to listen. We believe in universal
access to the tools of speech.
To that end, we want to enable everyone who wants to speak to have
the means to speak -- and everyone who wants to hear that speech, the
means to listen to it.
Thanks to new tools, speech need no longer be controlled by those
who own the means of publishing and distribution, or by governments
that would restrict thought and communication. Now, anyone can wield
the power of the press. Everyone can tell their stories to the
world.
We want to build bridges across the gulfs of culture and language
that divide people, so as to understand each other more fully. We want
to work together more effectively, and act more powerfully.
We believe in the power of direct connection. The bond between
individuals from different worlds is personal, political and powerful.
We believe conversation across boundaries is essential to a future
that is free, fair, prosperous and sustainable - for all citizens of
this planet.
While we continue to work and speak as individuals, we also want to
identify and promote our shared interests and goals. We pledge to
respect, assist, teach, learn from, and listen to one other.
We are Global Voices.
We're trying to translated it
into other languages. If you have some time over the holidays and feel
like helping out, please jump in. You can come to the #globalvoices
IRC channel on Freenode or just go to the
wiki and add a translation there. Any of
language links in red have not been done yet. You can also edit one
that has been translated if you find any errors or to go the "talk"
section of that wiki page to talk about the translation.
Please take a look at the Global Voices
blog. We're looking for additional people and projects to hook up
with so let us know if you can contribute to Global Voices or have a
project that could tie in with Global Voices.
PS I'm not sending any Christmas or New Years cards this year
because I don't want to kill any more trees (and I'm lazy). I'm not
sending email greetings because mass mailings are becoming
indistinguishable from spam. Instead, I offer this blog entry. For the
more personal touch, I'm relying on my birthday reminder to remind me
to say hi to my friends in a way that distributes the work across the
year.
UPDATE: Says _sj_ our translation expert. "Translate a few lines or
a paragraph or put up a bad translation and leave a note above it
saying it is incomplete."
Comment -
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New Hurricane Season's New Fears
New Hurricane Season's New Fears
05/15/2004 12:57 PMCBS News May 15 2004 4:10PM GMT
Joi Ito's Web: Season's Greetings and
Global Voices
Joi Ito's Web: Season's Greetings and
Global Voices
12/25/2004 05:00 PMNice Christmas morning message from Joi .. perfect Christmas greeting
.. Joi Ito is
linking
joi.ito.com/archives/2004/12/25/seasons_greetings_and_global
_voices.html
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Racing: Season's curtain raiser
Racing: Season's curtain raiser
04/02/2005 04:38 AMKieren Fallon rides Resplendent One from stall one in Saturday's
Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster.
Noah Wyle to Leave 'ER' at Season's End
(AP)
Noah Wyle to Leave 'ER' at Season's End
(AP)
09/09/2004 10:12 PMAP - Noah Wyle, the last continuous on-air link to the NBC medical
drama "ER's" freshman season in 1994, seems headed for the doctor's
retirement home.
Season's Twilight at Carnegie for Levine
and Met Players
Season's Twilight at Carnegie for Levine
and Met Players
05/25/2004 11:40 AMThe manic, uneven quality of the Met orchestra's last two concerts at
Carnegie Hall begs speculation about the roots of such a disjointed
performance.
Microsoft Holiday Support Center Helps
Consumers Maximize Their Use of the
Season's Most Popular Gifts
Microsoft Holiday Support Center Helps
Consumers Maximize Their Use of the
Season's Most Popular Gifts
12/10/2003 07:50 PMIn keeping with the spirit of giving -- and receiving -- the perfect
gift, Microsoft is upholding another holiday tradition, the Microsoft
Holiday Support Center. Provided to customers for the fifth year, this
online support resource -- found at
http://support.microsoft.com/holiday -- offers
consumers help at no charge if they have questions related to
Microsoft consumer products and technologies. A convenient, one-stop
portal, the site condenses the top questions likely to come up over
the holidays for popular products and provides the resources needed to
resolve them.
"how-to record on your ipod (for free) -
ipod hacks - ipod.hackaday.com"
"how-to record on your ipod (for free) -
ipod hacks - ipod.hackaday.com"
12/31/2004 04:38 PMBB-Shopping Is One of the Best Resources
for Mobile Phone Accessories, Ipod
Accessories (Ipod, Ipod Arm Band)and
Many More
BB-Shopping Is One of the Best Resources
for Mobile Phone Accessories, Ipod
Accessories (Ipod, Ipod Arm Band)and
Many More
02/01/2005 08:46 PMOne Place Resource for Ipod Accessories and other Consumer Electronic
Gadgets [PRWEB Jan 26, 2005]
"gift"
"gift"
05/15/2004 02:22 PMGift Hub
Gift Hub
04/14/2004 01:03 AM
Gift hub - Connecting Funders,
Active Citizens, and Advisors. Phil Cubeta, who is known to many
as the weblog world's
Happy Tutor (et al.), wants to stop just
talking
about philanthropy and actually do something. Now this a Corporate
Guy that I actually respect. He's recently decided to 'go from satire
to sermon, from noting problems to working for solutions,' and
brought
together some other
smart and influential people to talk
about
philanthropy, activism,
volunteerism, charity, social movements, civil society, and emerging
democracy, and is one of the people organizing an
Open Space for
Giving Conference in
Chicago
.
Can a webby philanthropic bridge
be built between the chaotic, emergent ferment in the wired world and
the
world of corporate
wealth? I don't know, but I wish him luck.
giFT
giFT
12/26/2003 11:27 PMOpenFT 0.2.1.2 released!
Gift
Gift
12/24/2003 10:29 PMThe best things in life are not things. (11 words)
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God's gift to Kansas
God's gift to Kansas
06/05/2005 10:51 PMHuffPo scoops Richard Dawkin's first weblog post. I am waiting
for the day he has his own blog. Dawkins on...
Saying Thanks in the Gift Culture
Saying Thanks in the Gift Culture
12/09/2003 03:46 AMThe traditional way to say thanks is to contribute some code or
documentation or maybe just a few nice words or a link from a visible
place; but I wonder how well these services and software will survive
the various threats, and I will go so far as to suggest that we invest
a little bit of actual money into those things that we want to
continue.
The 9-to-5 gift guide
The 9-to-5 gift guide
11/02/2003 10:55 PMZDNet Nov 2 2003 9:16PM ET
PHP Gift Registry 1.2.0
PHP Gift Registry 1.2.0
09/05/2004 06:25 PMA Web-based gift registry.
Father's Day Gift
Father's Day Gift
06/22/2005 02:59 AM
What did I get for Father's Day? Moleskines:
a pocket addressbook and a fullsize notebook. Along with the pocket
notebook I had,
it's almost a family. I'll have to get a mama moleskine (fullsize
diary) though so
the papa moleskine (fullsize notebook) won't feel lonely. And
perhaps a fully figured sketchbook
from Volant on the side...
The Gift Economy
The Gift Economy
04/17/2005 08:59 PM
 The Idea: The
Gift Economy offers us a means to learn, to understand, to take
charge,
and to change our world. It is a natural economy, steeped in millions
of years of pre-civilization human culture and the culture of all life
on Earth. If enough of us embraced it, the modern 'market' economy,
built on the faulty and inhuman foundations of inequality, scarcity,
false quantification of value, and acquisition, could not
survive.
Several
of the comments I have received about AHA! The Discovery &
Learning Centre have been about the idea of reciprocality(my
preferred word: the more common word 'reciprocity' now has an
unfortunate connotation of negotiated market exchange rather than the
simpler idea of sharing without obligation). I've explained that AHA!
will
have the effect of forcing down the 'price' of transfer of knowledge
and ideas, and of leveling the value we put on every individual's
contribution to discovery and learning conversations, so that there is
no 'premium' on the contribution of an 'expert', and so that great
ideas and important knowledge are affordable to everyone.
The end result could be, if we had the collective will to bring it
about, a world in which everything is free, and everything has
inestimable value. All of this
is consistent, I think, with the (suddenly very popular) concept of
the
Gift
Economy, which is not at all
the same as an 'exchange' or even a barter economy.
What is the Gift Economy? A seminal work on the subject was
written over 20 years ago by
Lewis Hyde, a book called The
Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property. Hyde
wrote:
I speak of the inner gift that
we
accept as the object of our labor, and the outer gift that has become
a
vehicle of culture. I am not concerned with gifts given in spite or
fear, nor those gifts we accept out of servility or obligation; my
concern is the gift we long for, the gift that, when it comes, speaks
commandingly to the soul and irresistibly moves us.
In her review
of the book (which I have not yet read), JoAnn Schwartz writes:
Hyde is interested in examining
the effect our current immersion in the market economy and the myth of
the free market has both on our view of gifts and on our ability to
give and receive them. The market economy is deliberately impersonal,
but the whole purpose of the 'gift economy' is to establish and
strengthen the relationships between us, to connect us one to the
other. It is this element of relationship which leads Hyde to speak of
gift exchange as 'erotic' commerce, opposing eros (the principle of
attraction, union, involvement which binds together) to logos (reason
and logic in general, the principle of differentiation in particular).
A market economy is an emanation of logos.
In a market economy, one can hoard one's goods without losing wealth.
Indeed, wealth is increased
by hoarding--- although we generally call it 'saving'. In contrast, in
a gift economy, wealth is decreased by hoarding, for it is the
circulation of the gift(s) within the community that leads to
increase--- increase in connections, increase in relationship
strength.
Through this book, Hyde helps us focus on the importance of gifts,
their flow and movement and the impact that the modern market place
has
had on the circulation of gifts.
Here's an explanation by
Genevieve Vaughan of the fundamental difference between an 'exchange'
or 'market' economy and a Gift Economy:
The present economic system is
based upon exchange, giving
in order to receive. The motivation is self-oriented
since what is given returns under a different form to the giver to
satisfy her or his need. The satisfaction of the need of the other
person is a means to the satisfaction of one's own need. Exchange
requires identification of the things exchanged, as well as their
measurement and an assertion of
their equivalence
to the satisfaction of the exchangers that neither is giving more than
she or he is receiving. It therefore requires visibility, attracting
attention even though it is done so often that the visibility is
commonplace. Money enters the exchange, taking the place of products
reflecting their quantitative evaluation.
The very visibility of exchange is self-confirming, while other kinds
of interaction -- nurturing, unselfish and other-oriented
gifts -- are rendered invisible or inferior by contrast or negative
description. What is invisible seems to be valueless, while what is
visible is identified with exchange, which is concerned with a certain
kind of quantitative value.
Besides, since there is an equivalence asserted between what we give
and what we receive, it seems that whoever has a lot has produced
a lot or given a lot, and is, therefore, somehow 'more' than whoever
has less. Exchange puts the ego first and allows it to grow and
develop
in ways that emphasize me-first competitive and hierarchical behavior
patterns. This ego is not an intrinsic part of the human being, but is
a social product coming from
the kinds of human interaction it is involved in.
So the exchange or 'market' economy is entrenched in the concepts of
inequality, scarcity, quantifiable equivalence of value, and
acquisition, while the Gift Economy is rooted in the concepts of
parity, abundance, unquantifiability, generosity and connection. As
Eric Raymond pu
ts it:
Gift cultures are adaptations
not
to scarcity but to abundance. They arise in populations that do not
have significant material-scarcity problems with survival goods. We
can
observe gift cultures in action among aboriginal cultures living in
ecozones with mild climates and abundant food. We can also observe
them
in certain strata of our own society, especially in show business,
science, Open Source and among the very wealthy.
In a
'market'
economy, says Hyde, the highest status belongs to those who have
acquired the most. In a Gift Economy, the highest status belongs to
those who have given the
most. But what is most important, he says, is that the
gift must always move.
This idea was recently popularized by the terrific little movie called
Pay it Forward. Every gift is its own reward, but that reward is
multiplied, without limit, when the gift, or any gift, is passed along
to others. A story is a
gift. Blogs
are gifts. Ideas and insights and teaching and counsel are gifts.
Conversations are gifts.
Here
is a gift from Chris Corrigan, Jack Ricchiuto and George Nemeth, a
wonderful 45-minute Skypecast conversation (with George's contribution
unfortunately inaudible). I am paying it forward by linking to it and
by summarizing below some excerpts I have taken from it, much of which
are about the Gift Economy.
Until
you put something in front of people that they are hungry for, you
can't bring out the best in them. We all have a hunger for connection,
for "mates" who understand our frames, our terms of reference.
Weblogs can create powerful virtual relationships. After reading them
for awhile you come to "know" the author and when you then "meet" them
you can then go to work with them right away.
The media have stripped us of direct emotional connection to our
world.
We now look at the news anchor for clues on how to respond to the
news.
The media 'mediate' our emotional response to the outside world.
When tribal elders witness Open Space they say "This is exactly how we
used to meet". Open Space is an indigenous technology, a technology of
connection, allowing rapid emergence of understanding.
When something is given, something is always inherently given back in
exchange. But gifts work best when you pay them forward. You must find
another place to use your learnings acquired from others -- it's this
passing along that creates the Gift Economy.
Scientists have long understood the Gift Economy, the networked way of
giving their thinking to each other and relating with one another.
This
is where the real science happens. The Internet serves a similar
purpose, as those who have tried unsuccessfully to make money or
bottle
up knowledge on the Internet have discovered.
The Gift Economy is about 'agency' -- you can't be a passive consumer
of gifts. Everyone has within them the capacity to contribute, and the
network will only grow if everyone turns the gifts they have received
to others. We need to learn to become aware of our own agency.
A friend of [Chris'], a Lakota doctor, speaks of the 'circle of
courage', and describes the way giving builds self-esteem and hence
spirit. Everyone, he says, must build four 'capacities':
- The capacity of belonging --
reflecting the need to be recognized
- The capacity of mastery
-- reflecting the need to build personal competence
- The
capacity of independence -- reflecting the need to know your own power
and agency
- The capacity of generosity -- reflecting the need
to know our own goodness
The ways in which we connect
--
these 'technologies', need to be in the service of presence. Open
Space
and similar technologies create the conditions for authentic presence.
These technologies work best when they 'go away', when due to good
process design the technology becomes invisible, transparent. Then,
when you're in it, it's simple because it's natural. It is just a part
of the process.
Good technologies provide 'back porch aesthetics' that enable natural
conversation, comfort and connection.
If we accept that we do not have all the answers then we acknowledge
that each one of us has a crucial piece of the answer, and what is
important is the aggregation and emergence of the pieces of truth each
one of us carries.
Here
is a great gift from Yes! magazine by Beverly Feldman and Charles
Gray:
37 ways you can participate in the Gift Economy. What else can we each
do to bring about a Gift Economy? The most important things we can do
are internal -- transformation of the way we look at our world and its
economic principles and the way we act towards others and the world in
which we live. Chris calls it "passion bounded by responsibility".
Responsibility simply accepted, not thrust upon us. Passion that comes
from understanding and the sense of personal capacity. We need to
constantly engage ourselves and others in communication and
connection,
and fight furiously the media paradigm of passive consumption and the
market-economy paradigm of only giving when we receive measurable fair
value in return. We need to constantly invite each other to address
the
all-important question What do you
really care about?
When we engage each other in conversations about this question, we
open
up possibilities, we begin to feel and realize our own power,
capacity,
and mastery, we recognize that generosity has nothing to do with
charity, and we sense the movement and strength of collective
understanding, will and passion. We realize that together,
collectively, collaboratively, we know more, and know better, than
leaders, presidents, executives, economists, experts, and others who
exploit our passivity to tell us what we should do and believe, and
engender in us feelings of helplessness, dependence, and addiction. We
have more capacity and power to act than all the multinational
corporations and the tyrants and the state apparatus of control and
repression.
Perhaps AHA! will begin its mandate not only exemplifying the
attributes and capacity of the Gift Economy but collaboratively
helping
to encourage and broaden that economy, enabling it to undermine the
old
economy and replace it with one of parity, abundance, generosity and
connection, helping us to imagine and realize a world without money,
without personal property, without poverty, without 'economic
diseases'
(those that kill thousands each week simply because the inexpensive
and
ubiquitous cures are unaffordable to half the world's people). A world
where the very idea that pollution, ecological destruction, loss of
biodiversity, slavery and exploitation of humans and other animals
could be 'economic', becomes simply absurd.
As Chris says, "When each of us does something that is more true to
who
we really are, the collective impact of all these actions can have
profound implications for the direction of our world."
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How to Set Up a Gift Website?
How to Set Up a Gift Website?
11/25/2003 10:22 PMPHP Gift Registry 1.0.0
PHP Gift Registry 1.0.0
06/03/2004 08:18 PMA Web-based gift registry.
can you please suggest me a gift which
can be given with the
can you please suggest me a gift which
can be given with the
09/11/2004 02:42 PMTechTree Sep 11 2004 5:53PM GMT
PHP Gift Registry 1.1.0
PHP Gift Registry 1.1.0
07/22/2004 12:49 PMA Web-based gift registry.
PHP Gift Registry
PHP Gift Registry
06/02/2004 03:19 PMProject Approved
PHP Gift Registry 1.0.2
PHP Gift Registry 1.0.2
06/24/2004 04:20 PMA Web-based gift registry.
What's on your gift list?
What's on your gift list?
12/18/2003 07:21 PMHe also plans to add paid links to merchants offering gifts in the
site's gift finder service, similar to the paid-for link section in
search engine Google. ...
Giving the Gift of a new PC?
Giving the Gift of a new PC?
12/24/2003 07:07 PMThanks to Slashdot for the good link. If you are giving the gift of a
new PC then you need...
giFT-FastTrack 0.8.7
giFT-FastTrack 0.8.7
09/21/2004 06:46 AMAn implementation of the FastTrack P2P protocol for giFT.
Gift ideas
Gift ideas
12/11/2003 01:09 PM For that special
someone. Kinda/sorta nsfw and/or offensive.Via Bifurcated
Rivets.Again.(flash?)
Gift idea: Ambient Orb
Gift idea: Ambient Orb
12/19/2003 02:34 PMThese things are very cool. We have one in the office hooked up to a
data stream of how many Blogger blogs have been created in the last
hour.
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