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Klings's Korollaries 
 Suits and Geeks is Arnold Kling's latest, and a complement to World of Ends.
 Arnold lists Five Clues for Geeks:
 
  1. Intermediaries add value
  2. Property is not evil
  3. Computer animation is not a killer application
  4. Bashing Microsoft does not make you smart
  5. Markets are not exploitative
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A question 
 So I've been talking to some companies here in Toronto, and a question has comed up for which I don't have a ready answer:
 What companies blog?
 Specifically, what companies maintain corporate blogs, either as home pages or as main features of their Web sites? I'm not in the best position to check, but maybe ya'll can help a little. It would be a good list to come up with in any case (if there isn't one already).
 [Later...] Some answers have been coming in:
 Macromedia has a bunch (see the list on the left) of blogging executives (e.g. Kevin Lynch, who writes helpfully about working at the company, among other things). Its site also has lots of product forums.
 Jupiter Research, which links every analyst's weblog (there are eleven) from the home page. Jupiter also hosts ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies, a conference held in Boston this June. Dave, Davi d and other leading local bloggers will speak there. (How about more links in the brochure pages, hmm?)
 Groove (though Ray seems to be awol... hope he gets back into the groove, pun intended).
 Trellis (Dan blogs).
 Starpoint (the home page is a blog).
 Immunexa, which hasn't had a post since last November.
 Still a pretty short list.
 
Other good news 
 When I got back to my hotel room last night, the bellman had just deliverd my missing bag. It had been retained by Canadian Customs and delivered, oddly, by Fedex.
 And the laptop has only crashed once this morning. I still miss the days when I could open a shell, run an uptime command and see that it's been going for weeks without a reboot. But the way things have been going lately, ten minutes is a miracle I can put to good use.
 
Happy Birthday, Mom! 
 My mother is 90 years young today. She was born on March 13, 1913 into a Swedish family on the North Dakota prairie during the reign of Taft the Large.
 Lots of people have issues with their mothers. I'm not one of them. When I woke up a few minutes ago, the first song in my mind was Paul Simon's Loves me Like a Rock. The second was Greg Brown's Cheapest Kind, which I heard once on A Prairie Home Companion. The chorus has stuck in my mind ever since:
 But the love, the love, the love
It was not the cheapest kind
It was rich as, rich as rich as, rich as
Any you could ever find
 Mom has always been, and contintues to be, the richest source of love I have ever known. She's a human pipeline, running straight from God.
 She's also smart as a whip, funny as a tickle and uncomplicated as a bowling ball. Her laugh can lift the darkest spirit.
 As a kid she was so smart they put her ahead one grade. Friends called her "The Walking Dictionary." A couple years ago she heard me mention Google, and said "A Googol is an infinitely large number." That wasn't exactly right (it's a one followed by a hundred zeroes), but close enough. When my sister and I were kids she taught school (mostly third grade) in Maywood, New Jersey, our home town. She started teaching when she was eighteen in a one-room schoolhouse in North Dakota. Between those years she lived an adventurous life. Met my father (another adventurer) in Alaska during World War II.
 We'll be throwing her a big party in North Carolina in a couple of weeks. Can't wait to be there.
 [Later...] Mom just told me on the phone that she wasn't put ahead a grade, but rather put in first grade at age five. "My mother couldn't stand having me at home any more. I was too smart. But so were a bunch of other kids." Her best friend, Agatha, was one of those kids. They're still in touch. Mom has always called Agatha by her nickname, which is (no kidding) "Boogie."




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I have a theory that many of today's content protection systems have been designed to be crackable. You see, the technology companies are fully well aware that a) any DRM/encryption system is vulnerable, b) it is very expensive to design a good cryptographic system, c) having DRM on their systems means that their products are not as good or consumer-friendly as they could be, and d) if they don't put in protection, then content producers will sue their asses off.

So what is the logical conclusion? Put in a half-assed and cheap cryptographic system, that offers perhaps a few weeks or months protection, just enough to keep the content providers happy. And when it gets cracked, point at the evil hackers and say "their fault, we tried to protect this stuff, but the hackers are just too brilliant", and so they cannot be held responsible. And they will continue to sell their devices happily, because the market is now bigger. And I am sure that the content producers know this fully well, too (unless they have their heads up their asses, which is of course entirely possible).

I am also convinced that this is the reason why DMCA is not thought to be that bad by the consumer electronics companies: it just means that you can keep making really cheap, not-good-for-anything protection systems, because if a blind monkey happens to crack one, RIAA and others can just sue those monkeys and anyone using that cracking scheme - and the tech companies are again safe. It's like the proverbial bowl of water Pilatus used to wash his hands.

Eurgh.

Now what is interesting is what will happen to the companies that are now producing both content and devices (like Apple and Sony)? Can they survive this inherent rip in their business models - where the other half wants (and needs) to be open to survive in the marketplace, and the other half wants to close things down? My guess is that in the end, technology will win. After all, they are the ones making more money. And also because technology is controlled by a younger generation than content, and is willing to adapt much more quickly.


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