The Organization

Friday, February 08, 2002

Have been doing some work on Zwiki. Check out the WikiMail page.
[ Hyakugei ] ::

Ah, more patent fun! I remember reading about this last year - i had hoped that it was just a bluf, but no, BT Group PLC thinks its got a patent on hyperlinks and wants some cash everytime somebody clicks. Fortunatly, it sounds like there is a fair bit of prior art, so i hope the court case goes well... cuz, boy, would that suck ass if they won.
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Ok now, don't get me wrong or anything, but in reading this new law that Vermont's put in place - a new privacy rule that basically states that all info gained or used from state residents, has to be gathered through opt-in only! The state is being sued because "...the rules will hike business costs and hurt customers" say the local corporations. Ya, right it will. Give me a fucking break. Its really going to hurt me not to get all the shit ass spam email i get right now. The atricle puts an interesting spin on this ruling itself in the following paragraph:
... are warning that Vermont residents may be excluded en masse from the kinds of offers and information that data sharing allows.
Oh no, excluded en masse from spam, junk mail and other unwanted offeres, for shit that i didn't ask for! How horrible! I can see why the corporations would want to move quickly on this kind of legislation, it might give some power and privacy back into the hands of the individual! Isn't that anti-capitalistic! Burn the heritic! Burn! Fuckers. I hope they get thrown out of court.
[ Hyakugei ] ::

Thursday, February 07, 2002

Am sick, got nothing to say.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2002

Ok, i know most of you have seen this, tho maybe not, so go check out page six and page seven of get your war on . Page seven gets into Enroniban... I love that they are so right on, and that this would never ever get seen in a mass media publication. Ah, freedom of the press (Abbott Joseph Liebling - "...freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one").
[ Hyakugei ] ::

Here is something you should all read - An open letter to G. W. Bush from Micheal Moore.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2002

hehe, Digital Data Porn. "1024% Extreme Hardware!".
[ Hyakugei ] ::

Well, Adam Curry's got me all thinking about "CalServices" now. Went and read the iCalendar RFC. You might want to look at the short version. Anyway, this got me thinking about XML-RPC and how a network-able calendar might work. Most notably are the difficulties in 'addressing' a calendar, as pretty much the only way to get in-touch with somebody is via email. So, there would have to be Calendar Servers, where you could register to host your calendar. Then, you could send the URL for your calendar to folks that might want to send you notes, event, etc... As stated before, you'd have some kind of XML-RPC interface to allow seperate Calendars to communicate. If i was setting up a meeting between multiple participants, all on different calendar servers, i'd want changes to propagate to all involved, if the meeting had to be rescheduled. Anyway, i'm sure you will hear more about this.
[ Hyakugei ] ::

Sunday, February 03, 2002

Yes, i'm sure most of you know (tho i didn't), Neal Stephenson's new Novel "Quicksilver" is due out March 7th. You can read an interesting interview with him here. He apparently also has another novel on the go, "Interface", due May 22nd. (from slashdot)

Also on the subject of GUI's and Interfaces, here is Stephensons "In the Beginning Was The Command Line".

[ Hyakugei ] ::

Six Degrees claims to be "timefreeing" technology - "continually make connections between the messages you send, the files you create, and the prople you work with". They talk about it being the google for the desktop. Huh. There was another product, i think it was called "fish" something, that did this kind of thing - created a database of all your files and messages and created relations between them. Also, the brain is another way of looking at your files. I wonder why the metaphor of the desktop has stuck around sooooo long, when there have been all these other interesting ways of displaying the data that your computer holds? Like, do you really think that the desktop is the "best" one? I don't. There has got to be something better. Why it hasn't been discovered yet, or if it already exists, hasn't taken off is a mystery to me.
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