Saturday, March 02, 2002

[IDG InfoWorld] BEA's Workshop gets a warm, if cautious, welcome 9:37:26 AM

[John Robb's Radio Weblog] Noise cancellation headsets.  9:36:13 AM

[IDG InfoWorld] UC Berkeley to use Web services to deploy unified messaging system 9:34:01 AM

[Scripting News] InfoWorld names their top innovators for 2002. 9:33:10 AM

[kuro5hin.org] Michael Eisner: 'Piracy is a killer app'. Walt Disney Company chairman Michael Eisner called piracy the technology industry's 'killer app' during a US Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Thursday. Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC), the committee's chairman, called the hearing 'because of concerns in Congress about the slow adoption of digital television and broadband Internet connections.' Hollings authored the SSSCA, a draft of a bill that would outlaw any 'interactive digital device' that didn't include a method to protect copyrighted data. The content industry has been saying that if there were better forms of copy protection, they'd improve their Internet and digital TV offerings. They have all the facts right there in front of them, but everyone is too busy worrying about how this "unfair" change in the market has changed their business.  It'd be better if we could move off of whether this was fair or not, recognize the change in economics and the clear demand that has so far gone unmet, and honestly try to find a *different* solution that rewards IP creators while allowing consumers to enjoy the IP in the way they'd most like.    Both of the extreme positions that have been advocated are untennable -- absolute control and absolute freedom.   I think it's a little unfair to label this killer app pircy, since no reasonable alternative to piracy has ever been offered.    9:21:29 AM

[Daypop Top 40] "A review of Radio 8 "  More than a review of the software -- a review of the philosophy, with some good links included. 8:55:24 AM

[Slashdot] Morpheus DOS'd and Moving to Gnutella 8:35:29 AM

In the early days of my career, I used to think of the practice of management like your average person thinks about the practice of car maintenance:  It's something you do as infrequently as you can, possibly only when it sounds like there's a problem; whenever you do it, it's an annoyance that should intrude as little as possible on your routine.  Now I think of management more like a race car driver thinks of maintenance:  It's something you do regularly and often to fine tune for top performance and to experiment with enhancements that might improve performance.   You do it while keeping in mind that the point is to win races, not tweak the car.   You can't win races if your cars in a thousand pieces on the garage floor. What's your analogy for management? 7:35:43 AM