Tuesday, October 1, 2002

Plausibility-based journalism

The Onion: RIAA Sues Radio Stations For Giving Away Free Music.

Thanks to Dean for the link.

His cup coverage runneth in RSS

Lou Josephs is blogging the Louis Vuitton Cup 2002. It's a sailing yacht race. Qualifies for the America's Cup. Larry Ellison is involved. Lou isn't a fan.

U.S. Internet Radio execution stay holds till Friday

See RAIN for details on the pulled Sensenbrenner bill and Rep. John Conyers' letter to fellow congressfolks urging a 'no' vote on the bill, among other things, not the least of which is

BS2P warfare

Found: Hollywood trolls.

Thanks to Kevin for the link.

Talk about the job for hell

Warner Music Group is looking for a CTO in its IT department. I'll augment the description by turning it from a block of text to a series of numbered verb phrases (couldn't resist highlighting the operative neobuzz item)...

Evaluates market trends in technology and music / entertainment content distribution
Leads digital delivery strategy creation, project planning and implementation.
Builds prototypes and evaluates alternatives for on-line music delivery, P2P warfare, copy protection, etc.
Develops strategy and implementation for wireless media (cell phones, PDAs, etc.).
Recommends future architectures, quantify, feasibility, etc.
Owns industry analyst relationship; provides trend analysis and monthly summary.
Builds and manages sandbox and new media lab.
Sets strategy for application acquisition (package, integration, in-house development, on/near/offshore development)
Finds and develops partnerships and strategic relationships (development, commercialization, joint efforts/ventures).
Selects, coordinates, publishes and monitors standards.
Participates in business strategy definition and alignment of business strategy and IT strategy
Helps to define a business strategy and architecture.
Executes best of industry practices such as CMM, ITIL, and Agile development.
Analyzes all industry wide technological developments and initiatives related to music and music distribution in an effort to help company sustain its competitive advantage in the music technology marketplace.
Tuned in to the market, senses development before they become standardized.
Tests technologies, new devices, etc.
Challenges current way of thinking.
Participates in new media forums.
Sets and runs University partnerships.

Okay Cluesters, who's going for this thing?

Heh.

(The backlink goes to Mary Lu, whose brave fingers have been taking the fading pulse of this monster for a long time.)

What those other guys said

Adam Felber fact-checks fellow bloggers and their sources in the course of explaining why Fanatical Apathy is not a political blog.

Alex Frantz does the same thing in his blog, Public Nuisance.

Well done, both of them.

I'm kind of in the same place as Adam. Mostly I see politics, especially around The War on _______, as tarbaby stuff. Get into it and it's too hard to get out.

And I've said my peace already, more than once.

Thanks to Ann Salisbury and Brian Linse for the links.

Open SesaReed

David P. Reed, prime author of the end-to-end argument that made the Internet equally successful and stupid (by putting the intelligence at the ends rather than in the middle) is all over the open spectrum case. Here's his resource page, which is full of links to Good Stuff.

I bring this up because there was a piece by Lee Gomes about Open Spectrum in yesterday's Wall Street Journal. David added more about the subject in SATN, the blog he shares with Bob Frankston and other friends.

Kevin Werbach introduced me (and many others) to the Open Spectrum issue. Here's his open letter to FCC Chaimran Michael Powell, and here's a large hunk of his Paradise of the Commons piece from Release 1.0 last year. I'm in radical agreement with both of them. That's the gist of what I wrote here.

NoS X

It's such a drag that I'm missing the O'Reilly OS X conference, which starts in earnest today. Wish I could be there for Tim's opening keynote, and the DRM panel this afternoon. Some detail on that one:

Dan Gillmor moderates a panel that considers the issues: Can this distinctly pro-customer approach continue in the face of Hollywood's ire and the entertainment industry's clout in Congress? Will Apple copy Microsoft and build harsh DRM for copyright owners into the system?

I'm sure the answer is no, but of course I need to say the question wouldn't come up with Linux.

Jordan Hubbard's keynote on Wednesday looks cool too.

Looks like I'll also miss the Harvard Business Conference in Cupertino on Thursday, though there is still an outside chance I might get up there for that one. Depends on how much packing is done and stuff like that.

Meanwhile I still need to report on Digital Hollywood. I am so far behind. I often joke that "I can keep more balls on the floor than anybody I know." But it's a little too true right now.

10/01

Kind of a binary date, no? Even in Euro: 01/10. The kid turns six on 10/10, a birthday that relieves him of the need to remember which comes first (month/day? day/month?) when he fills out forms.