"Paul Holbrook" points to two outstanding Information Architecture (IA) resources. Paul is a fellow Atlantan and, like me, fairly new to the weblog phenomenon. He has an extensive technology background, having worked on the Xereox Star in the 1980s, and built web server farms for CNN in the 1990s. I only recently began tracking his weblog but already he has pointed me to very informative and helpful resources for KM and klogging. Today he pointed me to two more excellent resources.

This article by Marcia Bates, After the Dot-Bomb: Getting Web Information Retrieval Right This Time explains in plain English seven problems areas with web-based info retrieval. Marcia's background and credentials are impeccable, and her advice invaluable. The added perspective from Louis Rosenfeld is equally valuable. It's stuff like this that makes me long for a copy of Copernic Summarizer.

I would never have discovered either of these subject matter experts on my own. And I've been digging around for days looking for really good material on Information Architecture. If you aren't reading Paul's weblog, you should be.

IR theory and the Net. Lou Rosenfeld builds on an splendid article from First Monday called "After the Dot-Bomb: Getting Web Information Retrieval Right This Time" by Marcia J. Bates. Read through Marcia's article, then read Lou's commentary. Marcia Bates makes reference to several interesting sounding articles that she's written; I'll have to wander over to Georgia Tech's library and see if I can find them. [From Bloug]

[Paul Holbrook's Radio Weblog]

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Resistance is Imperative

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The Internet is not solely about commerce, it is primarily a communications medium. I favor free market mechanisms for determining technology and economic objectives, and I think there is a point at which we, the buyers and users of products, have to assert ourselves en masse. These ID schemes and control architectures that have the business community so hot to trot are simply not in our best interest, and we need to make it clear we don't want them, won't use them, and sure as hell won't pay for them.

In the end businesses won't do anything people won't pay for. It's the most simple and elegant control mechanism in society. If we end up with this stuff we've no one to blame but ourselves.

Privacy News from Wired News - Get Ready for New ID Standards.
The Liberty Alliance, a direct competitor to Microsoft's Passport online identity authentication system, will unveil its system on Monday. [ ... ]
Privacy advocates, however, say the creation of a single identification standard will make it easier for businesses to profile Internet users for marketing purposes.
"They want identification data to find new marketing avenues," said Chris Hoofnagle, legislative counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "What it means for the individual is more spam, more direct mail, more telemarketing."
Hoofnagle said a single Internet ID also will place individual financial data at greater risk for disclosure over the Internet.
"It's like using the same key for your house and your car and your safe deposit box," he said. "Compromise that one key and all the golden eggs are compromised." [Privacy Digest]

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Russian Copyright Update

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Copyright is a global issue and as emerging countries begin participating in the knowledge economy they need to address legitimate copyright concerns. Here's an update on new legislation in Russia.

Russia is About to Amend Copyright Laws. Mondaq Jul 11 2002 4:33AM ET

[Moreover - IP and patents news]

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And the Music Industry Contributes Value How?

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I would sure like to see some Trustworthy Numbers on this issue. Has anyone seen good numbers on what is happening to CD sales world wide and in the US?

Thousands of jobs at risk from Net piracy, music industry warns. Independent Jul 10 2002 9:17PM ET
[...]Jay Berman, the IFPI chairman, said: "Music for free may sound attractive but when it is taken without the permission of artists it comes at a high price. It means less new music, fewer new artists, less choice, thousands fewer jobs and a poorer European culture."[...]

[Moreover - IP and patents news]

And this just sounds like outright lying. Less new music? By who's measure? Fewer new artists? What does he think, the recording industry creates artists? Jeez! There's not a bar in Atlanta that doesn't have all the live music they can handle, with dozens more trying to make a name for themselves and break through the stolid bureaucracy of the music industry.

Thousands fewer jobs? Doing what, writing BS press releases and thinking up new lies? And just who thinks the music recording industry makes any contribution at all to culture. This is pathetic. I know all these guys are scared to death of having to find new jobs. I just don't have any sympathy for them.

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Can K-Logs Improve Corporate Integrity

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Jim McGee on whether or not the process of klogging could expose fundamental problems in business before thay become Enron-like disasters, and whether this quality makes it more or less likely they will take root.

My take -- our litigious society makes it unlikely anyone in a senior position in a major corporation is going to keep a running diary about anything. And given the current direction of the software industry we're moving to self-expiring data of all sorts. These guys are scared to death of data about what they thought or said hanging around.

I doubt klogging will take root at anything other than a departmental level, and then only in non-financial areas. It's hard to imagine it ever getting to an executive level. I hope I'm wrong.

Can knowledge systems lie as well as information systems?. [...] Suppose for a moment that you had an organization where all the key players kept running diaries of the discussion and debate that accompanied their decisions. Suppose further that these diaries were a matter of record (at least within the organization). In other words, everyone kept a k-log.
How hard would it be for that organization to lie? To fool itself? I pose this not as a moral question, but as a pragmatic one. Along the lines of Mark Twain's observation that "if you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." [...] [McGee's Musings]

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RSS Feeds for Non-News Sites

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Using "Mark Paschal"'s Stapler Radio Tool (and a little handholding from Mark) I have been able to create two RSS feeds and get them loaded into my News Aggregator. This is a cool thing.

But why is it good?

The two sites are industry-specific portals WhatTheyThink.com and PDFZone.com. Neither of these sites, like most in the print and publishing industries, offer RSS feeds that can be read in an aggregator. PDFZone provides a nice little JavaScript for publishing their headlines on your own webpage, but that isn't useful to me. WTT.com doesn't offer anything as far as I can tell.

I just want a headline scan in my aggregator along with all my other news. And thanks to Paschal's Kit Radio Tool, I can also group all of my industry-specific feeds (custom or otherwise) together. So now I can begin building an industry section in my News Reader and create a group of feeds that pertain specifically to vendors, competitors, industry portals, etc.

Soon I'll be able to quick scan all the key industry news without having to worry about going to each site unless there is something of specific interest. If there is an article of interest, I have the direct link to it in front of me and, better, I can immediately post it for this site. Pretty cool. Thanks Mark. I owe you dinner next time I'm in Chattanooga.

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Mower explaining his liveTopics development and its relation to the blogplex More on liveTopics.

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Wednesday, July 10, 2002

Half-terrabyte of Storage for Under $4,500

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Networkable storage for less than $10 per gig looks like pretty decent answer for big image databases.

IBM plans low-cost storage appliance. NAS 100 with close to half a terabyte of storage will support ATA [InfoWorld: Top News]

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Why TrackBack -- Mower Responds

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Yesterday I asked for more info on TrackBack, and some explanation of just how it aided in KM and klog scenarios. Here's what Matt had to say:

Why TrackBack?.
» I didn't get it at first either, and nor has everyone I've mentioned it to.
What makes TrackBack so important is, I think, the following:
Imagine that I read someone like Jon Udell (which I do) and I find an item of his particularly noteworthy or relevant to me. I post it from my news page and add some editorial content of my own.
But if, like me, you are a relatively new blogger then maybe very few people read my item and nobody bothers to click through to Jon's original. My item never appears in his list of referrers.
This means Jon, likely, will not know that it exists. We could imagine further that Jon would have liked to know what comments I made but he never gets the opportunity.
TrackBack addresses this problem. It allows me as the author of an item to "ping" the original during the act of publishing. This ping does not require someone to read my item and then click through to his. Simply by publishing he is notified that someone has referenced him.
I think this is a very powerful idea and will help to get new bloggers into the space. For those with interesting things to say the time to migrate from the fringe to the centre will be drastically reduced.
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
[Curiouser and curiouser!]

My take (a first pass at understanding an amorphous structure and subject to change) -- This is potentially both useful and a major distraction. Someone like Udell, who has a near cult-like following and is doubtless linked by thousands of readers, will be swamped by public TrackBack pings -- rendering them almost useless. OTOH, people with small, faint voices can quickly discover who (if anyone) is listening. This is a useful service, one that could shorten the time it takes to find one's audience.

But what I think is more important is the KM/klog aspect -- where employees who are well below the radar screen but critically important to actually getting a solution -- never get heard or informed. It seems to me the TBping has potential for real improvement here.

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Indexing the Universe

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I've long been a curious tester of non-linear thinking tools -- mindmapping, concept maps, etc, and have an off-again/on-again relationship with tools such as MindManager and Personal Brain. I've had only a little exposure to XML Topic Maps -- first seeing them at a Seybold show a year or so ago -- and don't really know where they fit in the great KM schema. But if they manage to create a sharable visualization of how topics relate to each other I'm interested in seeing how they work.

Interestingly, I've found the UK and western Europe to be far more accepting of these alternative thinking methods than the US. This post originated with Ron Lusk but I found it via Matt Mower who, as luck would have it, is from the UK. I'll be following this train of thought closely...

The Tao of Topic Maps.
The TAO of Topic Maps. The TAO of Topic Maps introduces topic maps, a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. [Ron Lusk: Ron's K-Logs]

» Wow cool. More reading for tomorrow!
[Curiouser and curiouser!]

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Check Out activeRenderer's FAQ.

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Check Out activeRenderer's FAQ. I've added a number of topics to aR's Frequently Asked Questions. Among other things, I included an explanation of how to have liveTopics work with aR's outlined weblog style. [read more] [Marc Barrot: activeRenderer]

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KM Needs Technology and People in Balance

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KM as a technology issue. What if knowledge management actually is a technology problem?

Current thinking holds that knowledge management's problems come from too much focus on technology when the key problems are about organizational processes and practices. I've said as much myself on many occasions. But this formulation risks perpetuating the myth that problems are either organizaitonal or technological. We know the real world isn't that simple, of course. We shouldn't contribute to the confusion by oversimplifying our discussion

Technology drives knowledge management issues on two dimensions. The first is the dimension of organizational scale and complexity. Knowledge management is a non-issue below a certain scale. Leveraging and sharing knowledge within co-located, reasonably small groups can be done without resort to technology. Geographic dispersion and numerical scale create knowledge management problems that require the intelligent application of technology. This doesn't mean there are silver bullets to be found with technology, simply that technology is a necessary component of any solution.

This perspective suggests that technology's primary organizational contribution to knowledge management is in establishing a uniform infrastructure and contributing to a consistent language and terminology environment.

The second dimension of technology is as the primary personal tool for the creation of knowledge work outputs and intermediate results. I've touched on this before in knowledge work as craft work. Despite all its troubles and limitations, the PC is an essential tool in the creation and management of knowledge work. Remarkably, organizations and most individual knowledge workers provide little insight or guidance in how to use this tool in a way that creates knowledge work products effectively.

Sure. Bill Gates keeps making promises about how great things are going to be (think Information at Your Fingertips or the Digital Dashboard). All of these visions skip over the niggling details of what you as knowledge worker need to be doing to organize and manage all this lovely data/information/knowledge. The unstated assumption in most of these visions is that someone else will take care of them (either the software vendors or the magicians in the IT department). Some researchers are working on radical technology visions for how to do this. David Gelertner, for example, would have us replace our existing file systems with his scopeware. Great concept and Gelertner is a brilliant thinker. But I'm not holding my breath.

To me K-Logs represent the most interesting recent effort to address this need with a simple solution available right now. They offer a starting point that a knowledge worker can understand and build from.

[McGee's Musings]

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Is Economy Really Picking Up

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Are more trademark applications really a sign things are picking up, or just a sign more people are unemployed and sitting around trying to capture some intellectual property they can exploit when things actually do pick up?

Bump in trademark applications may signal economic rebound, some say. Nando Times Jul 10 2002 7:06AM ET

[Moreover - IP and patents news]

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Jon Udell Explains the Real, and Simple, Solution to Trusted Computing

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Jon Udell takes a look at Palladium and explains, succinctly, how we create a real Trusted Computing environment -- using technologies that are mostly available today plus a little personal accountability. Jon's scenario is where we should all be headed, and quickly, lest this whole digi-Nazi/Palladium thing gets out of hand.

O'Reilly Network: by Jon Udell - Control Your Identity or Microsoft and Intel Will.
I've been mulling over the list of features touted for the Microsoft/Intel/AMD security scheme called Palladium.
[ ... ] We can choose accountability, or we can let the unholy alliance of Hollywood, Microsoft, Intel, and the government choose for us. The alliance, cleverly, pretends to solve problems that really annoy us, like spam and email worms. But these violations of trust won't yield simply to trusted motherboards and operating systems. People have to assert (and prove) their claims of trustworthiness, and other people have to make judgments about those assertions. [...] [Privacy Digest]

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Barr on Right Side of Privacy Issue

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Georgia Congressman Bob Barr can be infuriating -- he often comes out on the opposite side of issues from where I stand. Even so, he is one of the few people in Congress who ever (and I mean ever) calls the federal bureacracy to task for infringing the basic civil liberties of American citizens.

This is not the first time Barr has come down on the side of privacy advocates. Having served with both the US Attorney's office and the CIA, Barr knows something of the damage that such government entities can cause. And when he speaks about privacy issues, politicos have no choice but to take him seriously.

I disagree with Barr on many issues, but on this issue he deserves our full support. Those who oppose Barr across-the-board because of particular personal agenda items are doing themselves a disservice in the battle to maintain some level of privacy against our War-On-Terror-crazed government.

New York Times - free registration required Privacy Officer Is Possibility at Security Department.
Under Congressional pressure, the Bush administration said today that it was open to the idea of installing a chief privacy officer in a new Department of Homeland Security to make sure it weighed issues of confidentiality and the secure handling of personal information.
"If you bring us a proposal, I think we'd look at it very carefully," Mark W. Everson, controller of the Office of Management and Budget told Representative Bob Barr, Republican of Georgia, who heads the House Judiciary subcommittee on commercial and administrative law. "Privacy is a very important function."
Mr. Barr opened a subcommittee hearing by asking Mr. Everson what steps would be taken "to ensure the privacy of personally identifiable information as the new agency establishes necessary databases that coordinate with other agencies of the government." [Privacy Digest]

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A Publisher's Spin on Palladium

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In the current Seybold Bulletin (e-mail subscription so no link) Bill Rosenblatt uses his editorial to take the publisher's view on how Palladium is good for all of us. Many of his points are reasonable and, to be fair, he also notes the risks to users and to Microsoft in the Palladium strategy.

Where Rosenblatt errs is in his underlying assumption that what publisher's want is what the rest of us need. We have ample proof that, left to their own devices, most publishers (regardless of media and like most entrenched businesses) view customers as little more than tokens from which revenue can be extracted and would choose all manner of user-hostile control and revenue generation schemes -- while doing little to improve their business models or increase the value they provide.

A robust, ubiquitous control mechanism that enables this sort of dreary, burdensome business practice hardly deserves support. There is no question the protection of copyright and intellectual property must be preserved, but Palladium-like architectures shift the balance of power totally to entrenched businesses, and do so in a way that is far more invasive and damaging to creators, innovators, and users than is called for.

[...] In the end, Palladium seems like publishers' best hope for DRM functionality that is as transparent, robust and ubiquitous as they would like it to be. Microsoft seems to have realized that it's very difficult to make money from DRM functionality per se, yet such functionality is necessary to support the various software and services from which Microsoft (and other vendors) could make money; therefore, it's necessary to build DRM technology and give it away as a way of moving things along. If publishers want DRM, they should take an open-minded attitude toward Palladium and find ways of working with Microsoft to ensure that it meets their needs.
Bill Rosenblatt is lead consultant at GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies. [Seybold Bulletin]

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Error: Can't Find (categoryName)

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What happens when you delete a Category before you take all the messages out of it? Why, you get an ERROR message, of course. But only under certain circumstances.

I was working on my Category structure. I decided I didn't like some of the things I had done so I went through and deleted (I thought) all the posts from it. Then I deleted the category.

I have Radio set to use the 3-button option (Post, Publish, Post & Publish) and I have upstreaming set for "Only on Publish". (Both these settings are in the Prefs and are explained in the Help.

With these settings I have more control over when Radio spews my ramblings out into the blogosphere (i.e. I get a second chance to correct my errors, but I digress...)

It turns out I had not actually gotten all the messages out of the deleted Category, and if you click the "Publish" button under those circumstances, you get this:

[Macro error: Can't find a sub-table named "categoryName".]

It was very confusing and this thread on the Radio discussion group will point you to the solution. But hopefully, you'll never need it. After all, I do lots of stupid things so you won't have to.

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Tuesday, July 9, 2002

More on TrackBack

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If Gammel and Mower both think there is something useful in TrackBack who am I to argue? I don't understand it, but I'm open minded about it.

KMpings & Trackback. The KMpings Experiment.
I created a little blog called KMpings that allows any blogger writing about knowledge management to ping their post to a tracking page (if their software supports it). Think of it as a themed www.weblogs.com for the knowledge management community.
I wanted to try out this experiment since I think the TrackBack function created by Movable Type has a lot of potential for aggregating blog posts within communities of practice on the web or an intranet. Please post any feed back you have to this message or shoot me an e-mail. [High Context]

» I really want TrackBack for Radio.

And KMpings sounds like a great idea.
[Curiouser and curiouser!]

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Possible Community Server for Intranet

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An announcement from Macrobytes on a server-side security product for Frontier and Radio Userland. I'm looking into Macrobyte's Conversant community server as a framework for Radio-based collaboration.

Macrobyte Resources: TLS 0.3 for Frontier and Radio UserLand. "TLS provides client side tools for making secure HTTPS requests, and server side tools for running a secure web server."[Frontier News]

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From the Department of Redundancy Department

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Hey Dude! You read my mind. I was found redundant a month ago (although not redundant enough to be let go immediately) and I came the same conclusion. I still like my future-former employer and wish them well. With their changes I truly am redundant. It's not their fault.

But I'm going to make some changes here. For the first time in my life I am not going to look for a job. I'm going to build one.

Okay so what's next?.
Strangely enough being made redundant on Monday was not the most unnerving that has happened to me this week.
What is more unnerving is my decision not to look immediately for another job. Instead I have made the decision to see if I can make an adhoc mixture (as I see it now) of blogging, k-logging, knowledge management, intranets, collaboration and communities into a compelling business proposition and make a living from it.
For some time now I have wanted to strike out in my own direction. To lead rather than be led. It seems fate just handed me my chance. This is not a risk-free strategy, and I'm just beginning to admit to myself what I'm letting myself in for.
So from here onwards I will happily entertain any offers of work, suggestions about what works (and what doesn't). Ideas, novel solutions, novel problems. It's all good. I've also got an acre of understanding to do, here goes!
Suddenly I feel like I am growing into my weblog title.
Matt [Curiouser and curiouser!]

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TopicRolling Update

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I still have trouble visualizing some of these interBlogatary referential rolling efforts, but I'm learning to trust a few of these Radio guys. We'll see where this one goes.

TopicRolling 101.
A feature that I have planned for the next release of liveTopics (the finishing touches go on the 1.0 release this week, for definite) is the topicRoll.
In the same way as a blogroll represents your subscription to other what other people are writing, the topicRoll represents your subscription to what other people are writing about -- their topics.
Whenever you add a topic to a post it is added to your topicRoll and (optionally) published automatically to your weblog. In turn you can subscribe to as many other topicRolls as you like. This means that as soon as someone uses a new topic, it is automatically added to the topics that your copy of liveTopics has ready for you to use. In the same way other users can see & re-use the topics you are using.
When combined with the idea of topicMiner (also due in version 1.5) this will allow you to thread together existing archived discussions in a completely new way. Mining topics allows you to find existing topics in archived posts. You will be able to mine other peoples topics from your own posts and vice verca.
I'm hoping this will enable some interesting cross-blog exchanges. [Curiouser and curiouser!]

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Best is New CEO at Lightning Source, Inc.

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More changes at Lightning Source, Inc.

J. Kirby Best has been named president and CEO of Ingram's Lightning Source subsidiary. Best takes over as CEO from Lightning chairman John Ingram who had been serving as president and CEO since the resignation of Ed Marino this spring. Best will report directly to John Ingram.
Since 1997, Best has been chairman of Publishing Solutions, Inc., a data collection and sales tracking service for the publishing industry. Prior to launching PSI, Best had been president and CEO of Royal Book Manufacturing. [PW NewsLine]

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Update on e-Book Industry

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A quick update on e-book business that mentions eBook.web, which I wasn't familiar with. I note the growth stats are all quoted in percentages, a sure sign the numbers are really small. Still, it's good to see a little growth.

Promising Chapter in E-Book Story. Wired News Jul 9 2002 5:42AM ET

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Asian Piracy the Real Threat

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This Salon.com treatise on Chinese piracy points out how serious and pervasive the problem is. And it isn't just intellectual property, it's clothing, hard goods -- everything from MacDonalds to Starbucks -- that gets cloned within the Chinese borders.

I used to do some work in Shanghai. Long before DVD burners were widely available here in the states, kids in Shanghai development houses were burning digital copies of new DVDs that came in from the outside. They had the hardware, the software -- an entire infrastructure -- available to them for the sole purpose of copying stuff. And they had the technological wherewithal to supercede any silly copy-protection or encryption scheme the MPAA, RIAA, or DEA can come up with.

This is where the real focus on piracy needs to be. Microsoft knows it. Everyone in the software industry knows it. There are probably people in the RIAA who know it, but it's far easier to treat average Americans like criminals and to dupe (or pay) ignorant Congressmen (see: "Berman Proposal A Publicity Stunt" and "Legislation from the Hot-tub Party") into passing ill-conceived, over-arching legislation that criminalizes all sorts of normal, rational activity.

This certainly isn't an easy problem to solve. China has been working on it for years, as the article points out. But it is where the real focus on piracy needs to go. Not toward the average customer for music, films, and other media.

posted by Bag Man » July 8 2:16 PM | 10 comments. "Piracy sure beats manual labor" Can China's Piracy industry be stopped? Should it be stopped? Will this be the fate of all copyrighted material? Lisa Movius offers few answers, but gives a pretty good overview of the situation.

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Publishers Should Embrace Multi-Modal Publishing

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An interesting Q/A quote on multi-modal publishing from Terry Fisher speaking at iLAW last week.

[...]"When you finish writing a book (ILAW casebook), would you consider different models for publishing? The answer is yes. Foundation Press turns out to be reasonable about us releasing a version online, for free. Why is Foundation Press happy about this? As long as we don't make PDF files available in same pagination of the book, law students will be happy to have the book in "real" form. So yes, it's a little bit of experimentation."[...]

[Copyfight]

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Using Jabber IM for Weblog Change Notification on System Status

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Windley is over my head here, technically, but he makes reference to relevant discussions on the use of IM in the enterprise and points to some experimentation going on with Jabber. Windley thinks Jabber may be the right IM tool for the enterprise and there's more about it on his site.

If we're to have properly automated print manufacturing, then we clearly need easy, simple system notification that can be used in many ways. There is nothing in the industry today that makes reporting, notification, and status updates as ubiquitous or accessible as this simple idea of RSS feeds, weblogs, and a little IM.

IM and REST: First Class Events?.
After posting the previous piece about IM and REST, I happened to see a reference to work http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro/2002/Jul/3#weblogspubsub">DJ Admans is doing with weblog updates and Jabber on Scripting News. The basic idea, as I understand it, is to use Jabber in lieu of something like MQSeries or JMS to notify people of changes to weblogs. I see the usefulness of that: remember those discussions in your undergraduate architecture class about polling vs. interrupts? [...]

[Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

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Blogs for System Status

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Phil Windley is CIO for the state of Utah and this guy is thinking like I'm thinking -- a $40 enterprise reporting system. I found Windley's Enterprise computing Weblog via David Gurteen and Windley has some great stuff.

Blogs for System Status Communications.
My organization operates hundreds of servers in several data centers and a network that connects over 250 separate locations. One of the problems we have is status communication to various interested parties. Tonight I decided we should have a system status blog that uses categories with separate RSS feeds for various severity levels and systems. For the low price of $40/year we could have:

One easy spot to post status announcements, which would be ordered in exactly the right way.
A web-based record of status.
Multiple RSS feeds of the various systems and severity levels.
Easy integration into the personalization feature of our intranet; RSS feeds would show up as gadget boxes for people who want them.
The ability to easily subscribe to RSS feeds and digest them in various ways for people with special needs.

How could you not like that?

[Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

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Mower explaining his liveTopics development and its relation to the blogplex More on liveTopics.

Wednesday, July 10, 2002

Half-terrabyte of Storage for Under $4,500

Why TrackBack -- Mower Responds

Indexing the Universe

Check Out activeRenderer's FAQ.

KM Needs Technology and People in Balance

Is Economy Really Picking Up

Jon Udell Explains the Real, and Simple, Solution to Trusted Computing

Barr on Right Side of Privacy Issue

A Publisher's Spin on Palladium

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Tuesday, July 9, 2002

More on TrackBack

Possible Community Server for Intranet

From the Department of Redundancy Department

TopicRolling Update

Best is New CEO at Lightning Source, Inc.

Update on e-Book Industry

Asian Piracy the Real Threat

Publishers Should Embrace Multi-Modal Publishing

Using Jabber IM for Weblog Change Notification on System Status

Blogs for System Status

Syndication

Contact

Presence