Takeshi Natsuno, Managing Director for DoCoMo Strategy
Keynote this morning from NTT executive, talking about i-Mode.
He's showing us subscriber data for wireless Internet in the world. NTT dominates in the world, and then next five are Japan and Korea. Everyone else, including Europe and US are tiny in comparison. For many reasons, this hasn't been repeated in other geographies.
He outlines the functional footprint of the 504 series. Interesting, the Nokia 3650 which is $150 in the US now has more functionality. He's showing powerful Java-based
In a major post-Napster ruling this afternoon, a federal district court judge in California sided with the defendants, including Grokster, on a copyright claim by MGM. The judge stated in essence that some of the post-Napster file-sharing networks are not liable for vicarious and contributory copyright infringement. The ruling does not say that it's always legal to use file-sharing networks, of course.
Quote: "On the plane to Portland, I spent some time thinking about lessons. It's time, I think, to take stock: what do we know about hypertext? I'm very tired of theories built on air, without real criticism of real hypertexts. And I'm sick of papers and monographs whose authors are too busy (or too lazy) to build on what has gone before, to respond to what we already know, and instead spend their time coining new terms and hauling in new theoretical systems from outside."Comment: Caveat: I have a strong feeling this is going to come across all wrong.&
I'm going to XML Europe. This year it's held in London, and I've never been to London before, so I'm really looking forward to this. This conference seems to be for the big companies, so I'm curious what the geek level will be. Any other geeks going? If you are going, be sure to go to the Xopus presentation by Laurens. You'll be impressed!
(Via Donna) "File-swapping tools are legal" - commentary to follow.
Summary judgement (pdf).
Many have written about it, but in my mind the fact that these are owned spaces, which can choose to link (or not) to other topics and ideas, allows for conversations to happen across weblogs. This is also partly enabled by technologies like trackback and "rss".
A short thread on Blogging in education ultimately produced this very nice compilation of responses, many of which, I suspect, were kicked off by the rather dismissive remark in this message.
One critical issue that I'd like to bring out is the way in which conversations happen and how these contrast (and may improve upon) web boards and email. It's clear to those that weblog, but not perhaps to those that don't.
Many have written about it, but in my mind the fact that the
Report from last night's session. We did the usual hour's worth of software demos and then switched over to three topics that are much on my mind:
1. How to integrate blogging with radio (not Radio). We talked about this at
Social Software? I've been in the software biz for 2.5 decades, so I've seen this kind of hype over and over. Take something that exists, give it a fancy new name, and then blast at reporters and analysts about it. Every time around the loop it works less well. In the 80s it worked very well. In the early 21st Century, there aren't enough analysts with credibility to make such a pig fly.
P2P was the last gasp. I remember getting breathless invitations to keynotes
On this day three years ago Dan Gillmor was being pecked at by poopy little wiener boys up past their bedtime. "Western civilization is in jeopardy," Dan said. "And it's all my fault."
BTW, one of the things I missed posting this week is the new version of LISFeeds, helpfully taking up residence at the URL http://www.lisfeeds.com/. If you don't have your own news aggregator, this is your single best online source for keeping up with what's going on around our profession. Big congrats to Blake and Steven for making such a useful site available for everyone!
Sorry for the lack of postings this week, but I've got a lot of other things going on right now. I'll be heading out to Boston for the NE ASIS&T conference on Monday, but before I leave, here are a couple of fun reads for you. The first is from my the July 2002 issue of Harper's Magazine, courtesy of my Mom.
The Lord's Pager
"The following message won a competition sponsored by Ship of Fools, an Internet magazine, to rewrit
Very interesting exchange between David Sifry and Gary Lawrence Murphy on what happens when everyone is empowered to create open channels where any blogger can contribute content. (I believe the Internet Topic Exchange is the first implementation of that idea.)
What From Seb's Open Research on April 25, 2003 at 2:45 a.m..
First time I've heard of it, but SharpReader looks like an interesting personal news aggregator. Greg at Ten Reasons Why writes:
SharpReader allows me to collect them into categories, in a Windows Explorer style set of folders. I can click on a folder and read a reverse-chronological list of all the feeds in the sub-folders (or chronological or s
"The San Francisco Chronicle today sacked technology reporter Henry Norr in an apparent response to his protests against the US-led invasion of Iraq."
Reuters: "He no longer works at the Chronicle, effective today," spokesman Joe Brown said.
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