This movie is very illustrative of where our database culture is going. I actually have a very high personal tolerance of privacy invasion, especially on an opt-in basis.

What will be funny is when we watch it and say, "I dont' get it." in about 5 years.

Of course if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I've got the VC's lined up - who wants to join me in a startup to developing the application shown here?

Finally, we'll be able to use our EVDO cards via a USB connection!

Just days after Google Inc. refused a US Justice Department demand to turn over data on its customers' searches, the company has revealed it will cooperate with China in censorship. The Google marketing department is no doubt ready with a re-engineered company motto: Just Be A Little Evil.

Good article on disintermediation (video over IP changing traditional broadcast models)): "Hollywood believes large-scale broadband video distribution would only destroy proven value, fail to provide alternative value, and alter a business model that is still far from being in decline. With near-total control of the most valuable program libraries and the business models governing their distribution, a shift towards broadband media will come largely on Hollywood’s terms and at an incremental pace."

Related link: http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/index.php Back when I worked at a big L.A. recording studio, I fell into a strange pattern where I’d get off my 12-hour shift, drive home, and then read audio magazines before falling asleep. (I also got a number of parking tickets, because I often couldn’t remember what day of the week it was, running me afoul of...

Weblogs, Inc. just launched PSP Fanboy and yours truly is blogging for the new site.

The creation of a non-profit organisation around MapServer web mapping technologies has been a dream of mine for a couple of years. No longer do you need to listen to my perennial pining about the need for an independent, non-profit, support organisation for the MapServer community. It is finally being launched with some strong momentum and promising support.

What is a covenant anyway? The U.S. government has been agressive in demanding that other countries accede to noxious IPR innovations. Does international law need to catch up for when IPR owners want to give up these "rights"?

Wireless Hacks, 2nd Edition is now available!

I wasn't there and I didn't see Sam Ruby, etc. Here is my fake report anyway.