War profiteering. Here's a Krugman column on the sordid war profiteering and cronyism in the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq construction. He compares and contrasts it with the reconstruction of Europe by the Marshall Plan. [Ceejbot]
Month: October 2003
Palast on the California recall
Palast on the California recall. Gregory Palast writes about the Ahnold/Enron connection that means that California would lose the $8 billion dollars that Enron & other energy companies stole from us if the recall succeeds and the Austrian bodybuilder is elected. I think Palast's writing style works against his points, and contributes to his journalism… Continue reading Palast on the California recall
Joe over at Microsoft Monitor weblogs talks about how Microsoft is missing the weblog product boat
Joe over at Microsoft Monitor weblogs talks about how Microsoft is missing the weblog product boat. Hey, I'm happy that we're missing that boat. I'd rather that Microsoft focus on making the best platform to build weblogging tools on top of! Why does Microsoft need to do everything? I'd like to see Microsoft do less… Continue reading Joe over at Microsoft Monitor weblogs talks about how Microsoft is missing the weblog product boat
You know, that was a big idea I just had. I think I'll tell the MSN team this:
Wanna build a great weblog service? Start a weblog first, put your plans up there, and then boot strap it. Explain your design choices to the world. Explain what your business goals are. Explain your assumptions.
Bootstrap the process! Don't play typical Microsoft and go off in a dark room, spend millions of dollars, come out with a “big product” like Microsoft Bob, and disappear into the black room again.
Start a weblog. Do the entire thing in public view. Help your customers design your software. Imagine that kind of world!
Then, when you launch, I bet you already will have hundreds of interesting, committed bloggers. Plus, you'll have a bug free product.
Could Microsoft design products like this in public view? I wonder. [The Scobleizer Weblog
You know, that was a big idea I just had. I think I'll tell the MSN team this: Wanna build a great weblog service? Start a weblog first, put your plans up there, and then boot strap it. Explain your design choices to the world. Explain what your business goals are. Explain your assumptions. Bootstrap… Continue reading
You know, that was a big idea I just had. I think I'll tell the MSN team this:
Wanna build a great weblog service? Start a weblog first, put your plans up there, and then boot strap it. Explain your design choices to the world. Explain what your business goals are. Explain your assumptions.
Bootstrap the process! Don't play typical Microsoft and go off in a dark room, spend millions of dollars, come out with a “big product” like Microsoft Bob, and disappear into the black room again.
Start a weblog. Do the entire thing in public view. Help your customers design your software. Imagine that kind of world!
Then, when you launch, I bet you already will have hundreds of interesting, committed bloggers. Plus, you'll have a bug free product.
Could Microsoft design products like this in public view? I wonder. [The Scobleizer Weblog
Principles Of XP
Principles Of XP. Every XP aficionado knows about the 4 values and 12 practices, but how many people know about the 15 principles? I'll confess I didn't when Kent talked about them at JAOO last week. After the talk I asked Kent about them: “were they in the White Book“. “Yes”, he replied, “cunningly hidden… Continue reading Principles Of XP
Bray on zombies
Bray on zombies. Bray on zombies: Hiawatha Bray has an overview of the current vulnerability of the entire net to compromised machines that can communicate with us: “Chris Wysopal, a research scientist at the Cambridge Internet security firm At Stake Inc., said a large and growing number of zombies reside in living rooms… Indeed, Julian said,… Continue reading Bray on zombies
What Palm Chiefs Learned From Newton
PC World: What Palm Chiefs Learned From Newton. Palm employs a major cadre of ex-Apple people, with the corporate headcount said to comprise a third of former Apple employees. Palm executives admit they learned from working on Apple's Newton personal digital assistant, which was discontinued in February 1998. [Tomalak's Realm]
record company
CD prices: Leaving the little guys behind Universal Music Group's (UMG) plan to cut CD prices to improve sales has gotten a good deal of coverage. But an interesting Wall Street Journal article (“CD Price Cuts to Squeeze Retailers”, September 18, 2003) presents a postscript to that story. UMG is the largest record company of… Continue reading record company
What music oligopolists really worry about
What music oligopolists really worry about Here's a smart blog article on the troubles of the recording oligopoly. The article “RIAA Enemy #1: Wal-Mart, Not Kazaa” illustrates well my point that the problems of the music industry are not about downloading (though that doesn't help), but because of a set of factors that together are… Continue reading
What music oligopolists really worry about
Scoble hangs out with David Temkin of Laszlo
Scoble hangs out with David Temkin of Laszlo. I've been trying to get David Temkin to start blogging for a while now. Hopefully if he starts to see results from me, Scoble and Sarah blogging about Laszlo – that'll tip the scale towards him finding the time. I think he could easily become one of… Continue reading Scoble hangs out with David Temkin of Laszlo