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Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Carly Shares the Future, and It Stinks
This is an excerpt from Carly Fiorina's keynote speech at the recent CES show, titledFrom Creation to Consumption, the Future for Digital Revolutionaries
Starting this year, HP will strive to build every one of our consumer devices to respect digital rights. In fact, we are already implementing this commitment in products such as our DVD Movie Writer, which protects digital rights today. If a consumer for example, tries to copy protected VHS tapes, the DVD Movie Writer has HP-developed technology that won't copy it instead, it displays a message that states, "The source content is copyrighted material. Copying is not permitted." And soon, that same kind of technology will be in every one of our products. HP will also work constructively with technology and content industries to implement Broadcast Flag into some of our products this year.Later this year, well also introduce a new protection technology that encrypts recorded content. Going forward, we will actively promote the interoperability of content protection technologies to ensure that content protection becomes the enabler it was intended to be not the obstacle to compelling content that many fear. And we will also step up our efforts to work with anti-piracy industry advocates and consumer advocates.
Clearly, the only revolutionaries in Carly's version of the future are those who work for media and publishing companies -- the rest of us are just poor consuming schmucks. The word they use for revolutionary consumers is criminal, and they're going to assert their intellectual property "rights" regardless of how they may trample on the legitmate rights of customers.
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Halley's Comment in Atlanta
I see Halley Suitt is visiting ATL this weekend, and asks for local bloggers to drop her an email if they're interested in getting together.I'd do that, except Halley doesn't have an e-mail address on her blog page (at least not that I can find.) So I guess I won't cause I don't know how to reach her. I met her briefly -- during a hallway conversation at OSCON, I think. Nice gal. And I like her writing. Maybe she'll figure out how to put a spam-free e-mail form on her page or something.
Hey Atlanta -- Teach Me How To Party
I'm finally getting a chance to visit a favorite town of mine -- Atlanta! I'll be there this weekend for work/fun/family stuff. Jeneane's got a cold, but assures me she'll be well by the weekend. Drop me email if any of you Georgian bloggers will be around -- and also, what's better Saturday 20th or Sunday 21st for a get together?
Monday, December 15, 2003
Good Graphics, Good Blog
There is a growing trend in the weblog community to use explanatory charts and graphs. Dave Pollard was among the first that I noticed, but there are more examples showing up every day. Spike Hall and Ton Zijlstra have both recently made good use of such graphics. Examples here, here, and here.To me this is a sign of maturity in both the medium and the process of weblogging. The graphics each of these (and I'm sure many other) bloggers uses are explanatory and demonstrative of a particular concept or point they are making. In the best cases, like those above, the graphs sum up an entire post in a succinct, visual manner.
Such graphs add immensely to the post, changing them from simple op-ed pieces to instructive, conceptual works that inspire thought, response, perhaps even action. It's a great change -- but one that not every weblogger can manage. First you must have a concept behind your text -- some well-reasoned thought upon which you're basing your post. Simple opinion won't do. Second, you must have some basic graphic skills. Simple representations are often the most difficult, and reducing things to the minimum needed to make a point (key to any good info graphic) is a skill in itself.
But if you've got those two things please put them to use on your weblog. It's a great way to stand out from the crowd. Design blogs like IDblog or Boxes and Arrows are great places to look for samples and techniques since, as you would expect, they use lots of graphics to show their web design concepts.
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