the rabbit's blogThe doings of an European rabbit(Untitled)- March 11, 2003 World Of Ends and the End Of That World There is a small text making the rounds of the net called World of Ends subtitled What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else.. I have read it and I find it hopelessly naïve. It should be subtitled What the internet should be and isn't. For example, the article talks about how all the closed IM systems (MSN, AOL, Yahoo!) are less valuable than an open conterpart (like Jabber). He says that Microsoft et al should realise this..http://blogs.salon.com/0001523/2003/03/11.html#a78 (Untitled)- March 11, 2003 More satyre On the whole Iraq affair: The Proof of Iraq's mischief SADDAM: FOR $30 BILLION, I WILL ATTACK MYSELF Other Operation Infinite Purity The bit about it being a gateway sin is especially funny. In fact, I am have just skimmed the whitehouse.org site but it looks very good. Actually, I came to it because of a report of Cheney's attempt of shutting it down.http://blogs.salon.com/0001523/2003/03/11.html#a77 (Untitled)- March 8, 2003 We Want Placebo Now If I could, I would write satire. I really do think that satyre gets often closer to the truth than real journalism.http://blogs.salon.com/0001523/2003/03/08.html#a75 (Untitled)- March 8, 2003 Fly UI Brilliant. I saw one of these at Amsterdam not so long ago and didn't really understand.http://blogs.salon.com/0001523/2003/03/08.html#a74 (Untitled)- March 6, 2003 Stalin Stalin died 50 years ago today and newspapers are full of reports. Normally they touch on the view of the regime by some in the left (from the 1930s fanatism through today's often ambigous condemnation). I thought of an article I read a long time ago on the net (and which google helped me find today) which lays a good case against today's standard extreme-left view of Russia's Revolution. That view being the one which says The Revolution was good and Lenine was a good man, then came...http://blogs.salon.com/0001523/2003/03/06.html#a72 (Untitled)- March 5, 2003 Which Price is Right This is a slashdot front story and it has some interesting things in it. The following paragraph is a little gem: Monroe tells a pricing story that shows how even the simplest situation can confound accepted wisdom about prices. "A company is making two versions of the same product," says Monroe. "One has a little more gold and foil on it, but they're essentially the same. One is $14.95; the other is $18.95." Not surprisingly, the $14.95 item is selling better. It's also...http://blogs.salon.com/0001523/2003/03/05.html#a71 (Untitled)- March 4, 2003 Customer-owned Networks: ZapMail and the Telecommunications Industry The above is a great article with some ideas where the telecom area may be headed. The article does point to some important ideas. First, a concentration should be expected for the telecommunication area. There will be one network: the internet. There will not be a network for telephone, another for radio, another for television, another for internet. Nothing of this is new, but it is still to be accomplished because of the...http://blogs.salon.com/0001523/2003/03/04.html#a70 |