Cox Crow
Asking the Stupid Questions Since 1971
Tuesday, October 29, 2002Look, Ma, No Ads!
MyWay [via The Google Weblog], a portal without (the annoying) advertising. This New York Times article notes that MyWay is built by the same people who brought us iWon and who now own Excite.With their existing technology and relations with content providers, they figured they could run another portal with very little incremental cost.
2:24:15 PM # Google It!
categories: Industry
The Dialectic
The Dialect Survey Maps Some of my answers:1:57:18 PM # Google It!
categories: Language
Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water
Jon Udell is experimenting, as noted, with VoIP.
But at other times, I've forgotten that I'm talking over IP rather than POTS, until I wander by my DSL router and see all the lights blinking like crazy.
Someone needs to bridge the airgap between different views of the Universe so we can get a move on.
11:47:08 AM # Google It!
categories: Industry, Layer 8
Planning a Disaster
Paul Hoffman notes an article in Network World on objections by New York politicians to locating disaster recovery sites for the financial industry well away from the primary sites. Pataki and Bloomberg object to this proposed requirement. My representative, Sue Kelly (R-NY), happens to be on the House Committee on Financial Services. Perhaps she'll be able to persuade them, since I expect my objections to go straight to the bitbucket.9:34:39 AM # Google It!
categories: Politics, Security
Speech, or Machine?
Larry Lessig and Ted Shelton are discussing copyright and software.
[W]e don't need an emulator of the 18th century to read Ben Franklin's essays.That's an interesting thought. Part of the discipline of history involves setting oneself outside of the present, and attempting immersion in the past to understand it, becoming, in effect, an emulator of the 18th Century reading Benjamin Franklin's essays.
8:54:12 AM # Google It!
categories: Law
