The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: MIT computer scientist takes stand in support of Microsoft
He said the software is […] “like […] a house of cards.”
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the art of writing is discovering what you believe
The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: MIT computer scientist takes stand in support of Microsoft
He said the software is […] “like […] a house of cards.”
Continue reading “Expert: Windows a “house of cards””
looks like TV turnoff week has already come and gone for 2002.
Continue reading “the idiot box”
The Official St Helena Government Webpage – Tourism – Communications
In March 1995 the Company [Cable & Wireless] introduced television to the island . . . .
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actually four of them, according to my records.
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The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net
If the Web and the Net can be viewed as spaces in which we will increasingly live our lives, the economic laws we will live under have to be natural to this new space. These laws turn out to be quite different from what the old economics teaches, or what rubrics such as “the information age” suggest. What counts most is what is most scarce now, namely attention. The attention economy brings with it its own kind of wealth, its own class divisions – stars vs. fans – and its own forms of property, all of which make it incompatible with the industrial-money-market based economy it bids fair to replace. Success will come to those who best accommodate to this new reality.
Continue reading “You’re a commodity: sell yourself dearly”
Business pros flock to Weblogs
I wish these had been around years ago . . . .
Continue reading “weblogging for fun and profit”
I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to get along, as Rodney King pleaded.
Continue reading “how far have we come and how far to go?”
The Seattle Times had a column about SUVs and the people who love them.
Continue reading “What to say about this?”
Regular visitors (OK, no jokes here) will see that the name of this weblog has changed. Why? I didn’t like cruft as a name: the word quotidian popped into my head and stayed there.
Continue reading “quotidian? what’s that?”
Google Search: ladybugs eat aphids
New livestock here on the farm: they cost me $.006 a head.
Continue reading “coarse gardening update”