Category — General

Defining Broadband in Only One Direction. Wall Street Journal: After Internet's Big Bust, Broadband Shift Went On. Much of the new content being developed for broadband… [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

well, to a certain extent this is true, but then some people, and I'm not naming names until money is in hand, are seaking to change that.

Silva Rhetoricae. Silva Rhetoricae: the Forest of Rhetoric. Don't know what an erotema is? Just why are you so stupid? Can't tell an apoplanesis from an aposiopesis? Then Gideon O. Burton's excellent guide to classical and renaissance rhetoric may be for you.
[MetaFilter]

this will be handy

Not quite a video iPod.

It's not quite a video iPod, since it lacks a screen for actually watching video, but the Cinema Disk from Deltron, looks like it might be a decent compromise for anyone who wants to watch the movies and videos stored on their computer on something other than a computer monitor. The Cinema Disk hooks up to a television or projector, and has a 20GB hard drive, a USB 2.0 port for high-speed file-transfers, a slot for reading CompactFlash memory cards, and plays MPEG-1, MPEG-2 video files. It looks like it might even support MPEG-4 as well.
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[Gizmodo]

I was just telling cookie, the local bar manager that i thought something like this device would be apple's next ipod, and i hadn't even seen this device yet. it is the way i think things are going though…

Not quite a video iPod.

It's not quite a video iPod, since it lacks a screen for actually watching video, but the Cinema Disk from Deltron, looks like it might be a decent compromise for anyone who wants to watch the movies and videos stored on their computer on something other than a computer monitor. The Cinema Disk hooks up to a television or projector, and has a 20GB hard drive, a USB 2.0 port for high-speed file-transfers, a slot for reading CompactFlash memory cards, and plays MPEG-1, MPEG-2 video files. It looks like it might even support MPEG-4 as well.
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[Gizmodo]

I was just telling cookie, the local bar manager that i thought this device would be apple's next ipod, and i hadn't even seen this device yet. it is the way i think things are going though…

And You Think Students Are Distracted By Wi-Fi Surfing!.

Quick Nokia 7650 Thoughts

“There was a problem with the GPRS – but it wasn't the phone, Telefonica is having computer problems this morning so it's not set up yet. The phone store is across the street from my office, so I went back over to see what the problem was. While waiting for my salesperson to finish up with another customer, I whipped out the Nokia and started playing some games. Full color arcade games in my hand! WOW! The experience was the same as if I pulled out my Gameboy. Seriously. I was so absorbed I didn't notice that the guy was done and the customer behind me had to point out that it was my turn. DOH! This mobile game stuff is going TO ROCK THE EARTH.” [Russell Beattie Notebook, via Scripting News]

This is sooooo going to be me someday.

[The Shifted Librarian]

i doubt this will be me, but i do think that this is quite a few people already.

Broadband and Video Games.

Thanks to Kottke, I'm paging through Yahoo's Games on Demand service. How long has this been available?

games on demand, i play yahoo pool a fair amount, but since i use osx, freebsd, and linux, i can't play these games….

First we had HipTop Nation, now we have FoneBlog for cellular carriers.

“NewBay FoneBlog V1 is a complete software system that allows mobile network operators provide their customers with easy to use websites (called web logs or 'blogs').

Blogging is the ultimate in personal publishing. FoneBlog gives mobile users the ability to create a unique, interesting and personal website from a mobile phone – including text, pictures and sounds.

FoneBlog transforms mobile phones into powerful internet publishing devices that will inspire people to communicate in a totally new manner. Users' blogs will reflect as many opinions and themes as there are mobile phones.” [via Underway in Ireland]

[The Shifted Librarian]

ch-ch-ch-changes, la la la la. in any case, what i think we are beginning to see is a transitory phase of publishing tied to a new technics, a technics that is no longer massive, but micro, and that changes everything…

Illegal music sites 'here to stay'. Illegal music download sites will never be eradicated, the president of the American Recording Industry Association tells BBC News Online. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

this has quite a bit to do with the different construction of power that has inhabited the world since the advent of late modernity. no longer are the territorial/sovereing/juridico-discursive forms of power primary in economic relations….

POLITICS OF CODE – SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE NEXT INTERNET
Conference at the University of Oxford, 6th February 2003

The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy and the
Oxford Internet Institute are convening a conference “Politics of Code -
Shaping the Future of the Next Internet” to be held in Oxford on
February 6th 2003. Speakers will include Prof. Larry Lessig and
Esther Dyson.

To register and find more information please go to,
http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/code/

This is one that I'd love to go to, I'll just have to e-mail Christian and see how it goes.

Metaverse Launched? [Slashdot]

oh, metaverse, oh metaverse, why would anyone care metaverse? this seems to be one of those 'would be cool' things, that can get way out of hand.