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If the news is important it will find me {Blog Maverick}
Mar 31st 2008 11:09AM Mark,
Aren't you the guy who was recently quoted as saying "the internet is dead", that it's "for old people?", and that the only thing new in the last 5 years is YouTube, which is a ripoff?
http://www.multichannel.com/CA6463169.html
You mean the internet is actually evolving, and allowing you to do new things after all? Who would have thought. Oh, wait: everyone.
Warner Music's brilliant new idea: Re-hash old ones {Download Squad}
Mar 28th 2008 12:46AM Yeah, that's pretty much the problem -- it *will* be mandatory. I agree that it it were non-compulsory, it might be great.
But why should everyone in America with an internet connection have to shell out $60/year (the proposed "fee" is $5/month) regardless of whether they have any interest in downloading music?
That's like taxing everyone who has electricity as if they had bought a Sony TV, and telling them they're allowed to go down to the store and get a free one if they want.
More on Blogs, The Long Tail and Following vs Leading {Blog Maverick}
Mar 20th 2008 2:51PM I think you've got the wrong end of the stick here with your idea that newspapers need to differentiate their content from blogs. This is like saying that Radiohead shouldn't call themselves a band because people won't be able to tell the difference between them and the guys playing down the street at Bob's Beer Barn on Tuesday night.
If nothing else, the difference is eyeballs, whether those eyeballs come because you're posting on the website of New York Times or because you're Michael Arrington and lots of people have made TechCrunch a destination.
Suppose newspapers *aren't* any magic thing, and they simply settle in as aggregations of timely web information -- like CNet or TechCrunch -- with a primary point of differentiation for most of them being that they typically provide a lot of information targeted specifically at a particular locality? What's wrong with that?
We have arrived in the era where the distinctions between blogs, newspapers, and other media are mostly qualitative anyway. Pretending that publishing on a major corporate website is the same as random guys in their pajamas but pressing print and making it show up on somebody's doorstep every morning is somehow completely different is just being obtuse.
Samsung's Q1 UMPC down to $580 {Engadget}
Nov 14th 2007 5:09PM It also runs stock Windows apps out of the box. From what I've seen of the N800, ports of standard Linux apps are pretty non-trivial. I don't want to knock the N800 -- those are really cool devices. But there are a lot of cases where being able to run stock apps is going to be a giant win.
Just Askin': Will you be using voice? {Second Life Insider}
Mar 1st 2007 12:16AM I have no interest whatsoever in voice chat.
If everyone switches, I'm never coming back.
IIHS: In crash, Versa good, Rio, xB not so much {Autoblog}
Dec 27th 2006 2:19AM The apparent bottom line, according to many posters: if you care at all about the life of your children, for god's sake, don't buy a tiny Suburban, buy a repurposed commercial bus. Driving the largest vehicle on the road is the only way to be safe.
Microsoft planning simpler controller? {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2006 10:43PM My guess is that this has nothing to do with playing the latest mega-game, and everything to do with the casual gaming they're trying to promote with XBox Live. With Live, you can buy an XBox for the teenagers, but Mom can play Bejeweled when they're not playing. But if Mom is completely intimidated by the controller, that's not going to happen.
So you make the same controllers you've always made for gamers, and you make a simple controller that Mom can use, you're good to go.
Intel's Eduwise low-cost PC revealed {Engadget}
May 4th 2006 9:28AM So what if it costs 4 times as much as the OLPC? Since when have poor people ever been price sensitive.
The real bonus is that by coming with an Intel chip and Windows XP, it will have lousy battery life and be way slower. What more could you want?
Dell's XPS M1210 leaked? {Engadget}
Apr 30th 2006 8:25PM #11,
If people play games on PSPs and Nintendo DSs, a 12" laptop hardly seems incomprehensible.
At least it doesn't come with Intel Graphics like the lightweight Alienwares.
NEC falls victim to sophisticated "corporate identity theft" {Engadget}
Apr 27th 2006 8:15PM Whiplash,
Ignoring laws you don't agree with is not necessarily moral relativism. It's possible to have a finely-tuned, well-thought-out moral system and still believe (1) that some laws are unjust, and (2) that refusing to obey unjust laws is not immoral.
Of course, having said that, I think most copyright pirates are simply indifferent to the moral and legal rights of the copyright holders.
