Saturday, May 04, 2002

Paul Graham: What Languages Fix. [Hack the Planet] 6:08:56 PM

A new blogging company.. As covered in Microcontent News, Nick Denton, co-founder and former CEO of Moreover (not to mention venerable British blogger) has announced his new venture, which is going to address, in his words, the "need to make weblogs more accessible: to turn them from a cult phenomenon into mainstream media, without corrupting the form." Of course, it'll only be an 80% company. [evhead]  Included for the link to 80% Company - I think it's an interesting idea, but the more I think about it, the more I think he's identified a symptom and not a cause.  6:07:29 PM

<a href="#85055109">Internet fun you may have forgotten about:. Internet Anagram Server [evhead] 6:00:56 PM

Reuters.  A new report from Jupiter found that people that use a P2P system actually spend more money on music than they did before before they began using it.  This makes sense.  These systems rekindle excitement in music (something the music industry through its excessive micromanagement of trends has a done a good job to dampen).  It allows people to try (new groups and genres) before they buy. It's also true that people really do like to support the artists that they like. Morpheus and Kazaa should buy a copy of this report and put it on their websites and bundle it with the download of their tool.  >>>``The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the music industry, and they're just missing out on cashing in on it,'' Sinnreich (the report's author) told Reuters.<<< [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 5:51:33 PM

Bush to Allow Mining Industry to Fill Streams. The Bush administration approved regulations that will allow coal companies to dump leftover debris into streams and valleys. [New York Times: Politics] 8:53:19 AM