Jeremy's Shitstorm
October 06, 2007 | CommentsJeremy's kicked off a shitstorm on Flickr: "In a nutshell, I’m getting penalised for having search-engine friendly pages. I, along with some other people on that thread, have tried to explain that Adactio Elsewhere is just one example of public Flickr data appearing beyond the bounds of Flickr’s domain—an issue tangentially relatred to intellectual property rights."
This really reminds me of David Weinbergers comments at Picnic about unowned order: in the digital world, there's no incremental cost to putting things in more than one (virtual) location, and it's possible for the organisation of data to be separate from the data itself; we can all own different perspectives onto the same data which the owner of the data isn't privy to.
And yeah, Mr Keith is spot-on that this is a cultural, not technical issue. I suspect that even having spent the last 18 years online I'm too old to really "get this" in my bones, and that the current wave of teenagers and young adults are the first people who might internalise this. /me thinks about record companies selling MP3s as though they were physical product...
links for 2007-10-05
October 05, 2007 | Comments-
"We often tell startups to release a minimal version one as soon as possible, then let the needs of their users tell them what to do next. In essense, let the market design the product"
links for 2007-10-04
October 04, 2007 | Comments-
Not that I find the tone of the Voda/Novarra debate all that helpful... but it is strange that Voda's own T&Cs prevent them from transcoding their own pages
links for 2007-10-03
October 03, 2007 | Comments-
"You've managed to find the missing link between promiscuous bonobos and pair programming! "
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"What I don’t understand is that Apple apparently doesn’t see any upside to allowing third party applications on the iPhone." +1 - the third-party installer is the best mobile app download experience I've seen
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"In the mechanical word, extra features have an obvious downside."
links for 2007-10-01
October 01, 2007 | Comments-
"Yes, this is a real life dialogue from several years ago. No, I kid you not. At the first sight of a bug, that guy instantly got his excuse generator book and blamed his bad code on Nokia’s implementation of some API"
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"In the night, he heard sounds of fighting, and in the morning, the goblin-rat was dead in the middle of the temple, and all the cats he had painted had mouths wet and red from the blood."