Sunday, June 30, 2002

Grudgingly, Music Labels Sell Their Songs Online Increasingly desperate for customers, several major record labels have resolved to make more music legally available for less money online — even if it means sacrificing lucrative CD sales. [New York Times: Technology] 7:14:07 PM

Protocol 7 jabrss, a Jabber based RSS notification service [Sam Ruby] 6:14:01 PM

OpenDJ UNIX-based P2P Streamer [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]  Related to the prior story, /. has a story about a similar streaming P2P technology developed by another group.  1:11:27 PM

Streaming P2P somebody is working on a protocol to allow you to p2p a stream -- anyone could be a broadcaster.   Stations form trees of nodes that rebroadcast the stream.   You join a tree by finding a node that carries the stream you're looking for.   You find the node doing a P2P search that sounds very similar to Gnutella. 1:09:28 PM

TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 8:48:45 AM

How to Take Down the Music Industry. An Open Letter to Musicians Everyhwere, or How to Take Down the Music Industry [kuro5hin.org] While I am pretty sure the approach advocated here won't work unless consumers change first (though they won't admit, most people buy the music that's promoted to them -- promotion works, and works better with lots of money), this article gets the basic issues right. 8:47:18 AM

UI Design Books [Bright Eyed Mister Zen] Brief reviews of several usability books for UI Design 8:33:20 AM