2003-04-28»
back to workยป
- Lumeta, net mapping thing started by Bill Cheswick who is talking at the Gates Science Building this Wednesday about the future of Internet Security.
- “We don’t pay you to be as confused as he is” – Spinal Tap’s (and The Simpsons and A Might Wind’s) Harry Shearer writes a ingenious piece in the NYTimes suggesting that if the music industry doesn’t want kids with more time than money to pirate their music, maybe they should stop exclusively marketing to them.
- Rand report on the troubled spread of the Net to China, Russia, Latin America, Middle East. Key assertions: China’s crackdown is working for now, Russia too weak to really kickstart IT, Latin America e-commerce suffering from lack of credit/debit cards, popular distrust of delivery procedures. Mexico most promising model. Elsewhere, establishment of Internet centers with a “human face” could “facilitate Internet use in small towns and villages”. I have no idea what they mean by that, or whether they just missed out on what a tourist revenue-spinner cybercafes are, but some nice barcharts and stats.
- Domestic use of SMS and IM, another talk, this time at PARC on Thursday. Teenage use of IM and SMS is another fork between Europe and the US, although I guess it’s more to do with the ratio of usage of the two forms. I should start automatically exporting data from my calendar for talks like these. They’re often fascinating. The PARC talks have a video archive but it seems to be lagging behind.
- Project – Aura. Designing interfaces and hardware for an environment where attention is the scarce resource. Bluesky wearable, pervasive, task-driven computing research.
- The science of pricing (via Dan Moniz). This touches on what this week’s column will be about. That is to say, the column will be ripped wholesale from Dan and my conversation about this topic.
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