] When CBS goes to sell advertising, don't doubt for a
] second, that Madison Avenue rep asks why should we pay
] you that when we can do it on the Internet (or somewhere
] else) ... The reality is their value is diminished and
] fragmented by the ability to reach consumers other ways.
] It's already happened. That's an objective fact.
] [Broadcast] television used to own 80 percent of the
] viewership in the United States. It's below 50 percent.
] That's amazing.

Michael Powell talks about the impact of the internet on politics, education, marketing, and news. Some very interesting and frank observations from someone who is up to their neck in it.

A very interesting interview with Michael Powell

I know this is lame, but after years of using unix machines this find exec syntax has never stuck in my brain. Recommending it to Memestreams will make it easy to find again.

Unix find - grep command

] In no other area is it more important to have a sense of
] what you don't know than it is in IT management. The most
] dangerous advice to CEOs has come from people who either
] had no idea of what they did not know, or from those who
] pretended to know what they didn't. Couple not knowing
] that you don't know with fuzzy logic, and you have the
] makings of Nicholas Carr's article.

The response to the article that caused so much hullabaloo.

Innovation: Why IT Does Matter

Elonka wrote:
] As I dug through the files, I found a lot of the usual stuff:
] price lists, articles, pictures, exhibition catalogs and
] whatnot, but then ran across something that I *wasn't*
] expecting to see: A classified KGB document!

Wow!

RE: KGB Document in the Sanborn Files

This site is a preliminary report on a simple visual technique, history flow, that provides a clear view of complex records of contributions and collaboration.

IBM | History Flow

Wanna make it easier to boycott RIAA? Install this bookmarklet... instant check against the RIAA member companies. Try it out with, say, Limp Bizkit and then Yo La Tengo...

RIAA Radar: Bookmarklet

] Lam Vi Quoc negotiates his scooter through Ho Chi Minh
] City's relentless stream of pedal traffic and hangs a
] right down a crowded alley. He climbs the steep wooden
] stairs of the tiny house he shares with nine family
] members, passing by his mother, who is stooped on the
] floor of the second level preparing lunch. He ascends
] another set of even steeper steps to the third level and
] settles on a stool at a small desk, pushing aside the
] rolled-up mat he sleeps on with one of his brothers. To
] the smell of a chicken roasting on a grill in the alley
] and the clang of the next-door neighbor's metalworking
] operation, Lam turns on his Pentium 4 PC, and soon the
] screen displays Lecture 2 of Laboratory in Software
] Engineering, a course taught each semester on the campus
] of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Here," he
] says, pointing at the screen. "This is where I got the
] idea to use decoupling as a way of integrating two
] programs."

Wired 11.09: MIT Everyware

] Napster's back, now with more FLASH in every serving!

Its hard to say how I feel about these animations. They are well done, sort of funny. If this was a webcomic I would be into it. But its not. Its a corporate logo. And the only reason they continue to pump its chest is because it is widely recognized. I have no idea what they plan to sell, exactly, other then that it will have little to do with free music. These web comics are the build up. Making you more eagerly anticipate their big sales pitch. There is something creepy about that.

Napsterbits

] In Microsoft's research and development labs, Smith has
] spent the past several years slicing and dicing data
] about messages and message authors in an ambitious effort
] to help people make sense of the newsgroup manifold--the
] hordes of know-it-alls, flame warriors, spammers and
] neophytes who, by Smith's estimate, last year numbered
] more than 100 million in the Usenet network of e-mail
] threads, or newsgroups.

Microsoft on Reputation Systems

] In 2000, the Business Software Alliance conducted a
] raid and subsequent audit at the San Luis Obispo,
] Calif.-based company that turned up a few dozen
] unlicensed copies of programs. Ball settled for $65,000,
] plus $35,000 in legal fees. But by then, the BSA, a trade
] group that helps enforce copyrights and licensing
] provisions for major business software makers, had put
] the company on the evening news and featured it in
] regional ads warning other businesses to monitor their
] software licenses.
]
] Humiliated by the experience, Ball told his IT
] department he wanted Microsoft products out of his
] business within six months. "I said, 'I don't care if we
] have to buy 10,000 abacuses,'" recalled Ball, who
] recently addressed the LinuxWorld trade show. "We won't
] do business with someone who treats us poorly.

An entertaining interview with a medium sized business owner who runs linux exclusively.

Ernie Ball Rockin' on without Microsoft