Monday, September 22, 2003
I presume lots of other people have got to pondering how it seems quite inefficent for RSS clients to be polling RSS feed sites all the time. Various alternative designs come easily to mind. For example clients could register their interest and ask to have the updates pushed to them, sadly that’s a loser for [...]
Monday, September 22, 2003
A number of folks have been pointing out this article that argues that the movie industry get’s it while the record industry doesn’t. That maybe. But, it may also be that the real difference is that a digitized movie is a lot larger than a digitized pop song. It might be because the movie industry [...]
Monday, September 22, 2003
Dating services, credit cards, game consoles, farmer’s markets, real estate agents all have something in common and thus the lover’s lament “he’s been too long at the fair.” Let me explain. Let me invite you to the fair. The September ’03 issue of Review of Network Economics has an article by David S. Evans that [...]
Monday, September 22, 2003
Here’s a fine example of modern pricing practice. Notice how this forces the shopper to reveal (negotiate) exactly what price he’s willing to pay by setting up a cascade of barriers he must climb over to get the lowest price. OfficeMax.com – Western Digital 120GB, 7200 RPM, 8MB Cache Hard Drive $69.98 After Rebates. OfficeMax [...]
Sunday, September 21, 2003
Tim Oren turns his not inconsiderable pirate skills on the rich prize what is the dying music industry. He makes a fascinating point that the Ticket Master monopoly might be the big winner in reshaping the industry. On the other hand the dollars may just go someplace else, never to return. He points our that [...]
Sunday, September 14, 2003
I enjoyed this list of why the trains are having trouble running on time in Britain. I think you could use this list pretty much any time you wanted to diagnose the “why we’re late” syndrome. The Hardware, lousy maintainance, insufficent capital budgets Managerial failure to adapte rapidly and flexibly Failure to prioritize the high [...]
Sunday, September 14, 2003
Tim Bray has a thoughtful posting about the blog newspaper editting process. He points out that the online blogging world, and even the New York Times, revise postings overtime. Newspapers have always done this; revising the paper’s content in response to newly arriving info from all three sources: the editors, the situation, and the audience. [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2003
This blog entry points to a paper on patents and draws out a few paragraphs. One of them I strongly disagree with: Second, the number of citations received by the average patent has increased over the last couple of decades, suggesting that the social value of the average patent has increased. I have no doubt [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2003
Very nice essay on why the music industry’s lashing out is just a further manifestation of the death of their current business model; in this case the key point being made is that you can’t run a business on that’s based on destroying value for your customers. Then we have humor: RIAA Files Suit Against [...]
Friday, September 12, 2003
Super Volcano – Not to worry thought, we know the right solution: tax cuts for upper income brackets and the distruction of the welfare state. Update: Never mind.
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