Rough Drafts

Content Management Server 2002 will retail for $42,000 per processor. Companies running multi-processor servers could pay considerably more for the product. “

So long, Upside, we hardly knew ya.

Compromise legislation passed by the House yesterday sets Internet radio royalty rates at a reasonable level for small broadcasters. “The parties ultimately agreed to a deal that would let small Webcasters pay a percentage of their revenues to labels and artists, instead of a flat per-song fee.” Her

From Shava Nerad: If every person drew the phrase “War Makes Me Sick” on a piece of paper and taped it in their back window, or their bike basket, or put it in their front window, maybe it would be more clear what disgust we have for what’s going on. Read more, and if you […]

Small Pieces Loosely Joined, by David Weinberger (Perseus, 2002) Something about David Weinberger’s writing style really makes me want to use the word “avuncular.” I’m not sure why — his writing is not particularly uncle-like — but there is something about his friendly, down-to-earth, thoughtful-cha

Back in the late 1990s, a software salesman could look you in the eye and say with a straight face that his company’s enterprise system would cost you $1 million. Mercifully, those days are over, as my latest column for Business 2.0 reports.

Mrs. Bridge. by Evan S. Connell, Jr. (1959). I picked up this novel in the library on a whim, because it was near Joseph Conrad, and because it’s told entirely in short, disconnected episodes (anywhere from a paragraph or two up to three or four pages at the longest). It’s a fast read. But it’s […]

Bob Cringely has a sensible strategy for how to roll back the DMCA and its egregious limitations on technology and fair use: civil disobedience. “Everyone who hates the DMCA has to illegally copy a movie or a song, and then tell both the Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office exactly what they did.

Scientists have empirically established the world’s funniest joke.

The New Scientist interviews Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things, about software and product design: “You don’t do good software design by committee. You do it best by having a dictator. … The person who’s done it best is Steve Jobs, and he’s well-known for being a tyrant.” Norman al

Tom Matrullo points out that Google News completes the commodification of the news business. It lumps every news organization’s article about a particular news story under a single umbrella, giving you the basic story while cutting through all the brand differentiation that those news organizations

Photographer drives across the country, taking one 35mm picture every mile. Very nifty Flash app lets you see the map of his journey and view the pictures as you go: Taken On The Road: American Mile Markers