Happy New Year! Wish I was there! (thanks Kottke)

Jesse shares some good thinking in The Psychology of Navigation: “In the real world, everything you put into space is going to be visible to visitors by default. The designer of the space has to choose to hide something. With an information space, everything is hidden by default. The only parts of the space visitors can see are those the designer has chosen to reveal.”

Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution: “The music and film industries like to suggest that file sharing networks will destroy their industries. Those who make this argument completely fail to understand the nature of publishing. Publishing is not a role that will be undone by any new technology, since its existence is mandated by mathematics. Millions of buyers and millions of sellers cannot find one another without one or more middlemen who, like a kind of step-down transformer, segment the market into more manageable pieces. In fact, there is usually a rich ecology of middlemen. Publishers aggregate authors for retailers. Retailers aggregate customers for publishers. Wholesalers aggregate small publishers for retailers and small retailers for publishers. Specialty distributors find ways into non-standard channels.”

Step into the past and enjoy.

A great overview of the Internet mail message header format for your delectation.

My boss recently sent an email to a coworker that included the text shorthand “FWIW”. The poor thing didn't know what the heck it was - could it be the boss was having a stroke as he finished off the email? I laughed, but it's also a stark reminder that not everyone has net lingo so engraved in their brains that it's second nature to them. By the way, they now have a book - cool - I'm tempted to buy a few for myself and, erm... friends and family who need it!

Job I'd secretly love to have: filling in the stuff between the [tech] in Star Trek scripts.

Can someone please tell me why, why, why, why, why technology makers insist on making “girl” versions of their stuff - as though tech toys are only for men until they come in pink????

Why RIAA Keeps Getting Hacked. Good for a laugh.

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