Tag's Trance Trip, operated by one of AOL's Nullsoft employees, went off the air just hours after the rates' release. Florida-based Good Time Oldies signed off June 30. "

Anger? Yes. Anger. The RIAA had an opportunity to make a great deal of money off of small webcasters, but that wasn't good enough for them. So through their actions they have undermined the rule of law for an entire generation.

Do you miss crime? Do you wish you could set the internet clock back to 1991? Well, here is your chance. These fuckers can have my MP3s when they pry them from my cold, dead fingers. And this time its not just a hand full of hackers who will be shaped by the experience. When organized crime becomes this widespread what you will have is genuine threat to the future of credible democratic government.

What I find most astonishing is this comment:

"Certainly the technology is there, so it's possible," said Ryan Jones, an Internet media analyst with The Yankee Group research firm. "But before there is a drag-and-drop (technology), I can't see who would really want to go through the effort to create a station that doesn't generate revenue."

How long can ignorance like that go on?! When are these people going to realise just how baddly they have fucked things up??

Net radio raises a pirate flag - Tech News - CNET.com

"MILLIONS of Chinese television viewers got a shock this week when Falun Gong propaganda was beamed into their living rooms as members of the banned sect hijacked one of China's main television satellites."

Western press sources are REALLY keeping quiet about this lest their sites end up in the filter list at the great firewall of China. I caught wind of this a few days ago but haven't managed to find an actual story on it until now.

Australian IT - Falun Gong hijacks Chinese TV (Catherine Armitage, JUNE 29, 2002)

"Scented with peppermint oil and infused with caffeine anhydrous, each bar of Shower shock contains approximately 10 servings/showers per 4 ounce bar with 250 milligrams of caffeine per serving. No, we're not kidding and no you don't eat it. The caffeine is absorbed through the skin... "

This cannot be healthy...

ThinkGeek :: Shower Shock Caffeinated Soap

I used to think much better of you than this, Vint. You can see that even now I'm grasping at straws rather than believe that YOU are one of the megalomaniacs. But the evidence continues to pile up, and I'm afraid it's true. I don't want to be the friend of such a person. I'll see you from the other side of the courtroom."

Flame John Gillmore sent Vint Cerf, which Cerf has publish in an attempt to discredit Gillmore. Certainly entertaining reading if nothing else...

Email from Gillmore to Vint Cerf

"Benevolent dictatorship by Jon Postel would have gotten us there, but Jon was unwilling to stand up to pressure from the White House. Ira Magaziner threatened him ("You'll never work on the Internet again") and he didn't have the spine to tell Ira to take a flying leap."

WOW... Apparently ICANN drama is about 1000 times worse then you thought. If you run things, you can get rich, as long as you don't make people so angry that they overthrow you. Of course by the time these people ever succeed at making ICANN the organization it should have been ICANN won't matter anymore because we'll be paying more attention to how google associates words with things then how DNS works.

Salon.com Technology | It's time for ICANN to go

"An anonymous donor, whose identity is known to the Xbox Linux project leaders, has announced to award at total of US$ 200,000 for the completion of various tasks on the Xbox Linux Project until December 31st 2002."

Contribute to the X-box hacking effort, get paid.

Reward offered for Xbox work

June 30, 2002 -- This combined August September Special Issue of the COOK Report on Internet takes an exhaustive look at what is coming to be known as asset based telecommunications.

The COOK Report On Internet

All the bad economic news thats fit to print...

Financial Sense Online ~ Storm Watch

...is when the blood is flowing in the streets.

I recall failing to convince an employer early on in 2000 that he should not accept stock in exchange for network services from an online retail company. The reason? Things had been too good, too long. It was time for a crash. Since then all I've been hearing has been "the recovery will be 3 months away" and "that wasn't a real recession." Yeah right.

This, however, feels honest. Red text all over CNNFN.COM. More Enrons and Worldcoms are surely out there. More terrorists too. No one knows when the market will recover, or how. Everything is bleak. No one is predicting recovery.

You win in the market by being contrarian. This is the time to buy. I think there will be a few more months of this nastyness, but I think we're near the bottom. When everyone insists that the only way things can go is down, and there is absolutely no chance of recovery, thats when you've hit the bottom. Thats when you can bet things will go up.

Its too early on in the generational cycle for a sustained depression. That won't be likely until early in the next decade.
Look for things to slowly begin to improve. The present crisis, in terms of the economy, terrorism, and corporate dishonesty, is a window into the coming catastrophe, as WWI prepared you for WWII.

As things being to improve, take stock of what just occured. In ten years all of the problems will come back to haunt you a thousand-fold. There are lessons here that you will need then.

The difference will be that you won't get to simply watch the crisis occur on CNN. You'll actually experience it in your life. You'll have to make choices. Even if you don't live in New York.

And if I'm wrong, things will be much much worse. Baby Boomers are too idealistic to be allowed to hold the reigns when the shit hits the fan. The last time such a group was running the country during a crisis was the civil war...

The time to buy....

From Cap Gemini Ernst and Young, this publication might be compared to the Harvard Business Review. Here's a soundbite about the center:

The Center for Business Innovation is a source of new knowledge and insights for management. We exist to discover and develop innovations in strategy, organization, and technology that deliver high value to business. Our work, performed in collaboration with leading thinkers in business, academe, and other research organizations, fuels development of new strategic consulting services, and is communicated broadly to general business audiences.

On the subject of "connected innovation", the current issue of their journal includes, among other things, an interview with Alan Kay.

Alan Kay is one of the most influential computer scientists of the modern era. His contributions, among many others, include the concept of the personal computer. We sat down with him to discuss his take on how innovations happen.

In brief, Alan Kay rocks.

Interview with Alan Kay in the Journal of the Center for Business Innovation