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Tuesday, December 16, 2003 |
 Dave is probably going to break our Wired award tie (my team and I won a Wired award in finance in 2000). I wonder if they have awards for disruptive ideas in anything other than Websites and tech (which is currently passe). If so, I have one on the way.
10:06:25 PM 
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Wired points out that cellphones with position awareness will open up the possibility of physically targeted advertising. Of course, it could also create a demographic dystopia where those with the right demographics (and all other data that can be collected) get treated different everywhere they go. Go to the movies and the right demographic gets you a ticket at a discount because the BMW ads prior to the previews are targeted at you (and not others in the theater). Go to a store and the salesperson gives you a discount coupon while the next person in doesn't get one. Drive by a cop after you ran through a close traffic light, and they stop you because of your demographic profile. Ask a woman out on a date and she checks her cell phone "people" service, finds your demographic doesn't measure up, and sends you packing. Walk down the street with a criminal record (or worse, an illegal service that has medical records to reference), and see that people cross the street before they would walk by you. Have fun!
4:47:29 PM
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As the US is absorbed in Iraq, Osama is at work in Pakistan. A siezure of control of Pakistan by fundamentalist groups would radically change the landscape of terrorism. Under Pakistan's nuclear umbrella, terrorist groups could become extremely aggressive with little fear of retribution.
11:41:36 AM
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Seagate has a high throughput, fast, 160 Gb external drive. At $269, it is fairly inexpensive. Nice for back-up. Now, if it had a docking cradle (or automatic a wireless connection) that my screen-enabled Archos (or your ipod) can snap into for fast back-ups, that would be even better.
8:09:39 AM
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WP. Clark's net worth is far less than the assets of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), who, with his wife, is worth an estimated $500 million. According to news accounts, the net worth of other Democratic candidates ranges from $13 million to $60 million for Sen. John Edwards (N.C.); $2.2 million to $5 million for former Vermont governor Howard Dean; and $2,000 to $32,000 for Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (Ohio).
7:22:35 AM
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Congrats to UserLand on the new management team. I wish I had a team this large and skilled with me when I was there, but the environment was much more difficult then (a software depression, no VC money, and Dave's operation). I am glad that my contribution was to enable the hand-off a viable company that this team can build on. Good luck guys.
7:17:45 AM
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Doug Kaye talks with David Weinberger about the Dean campaign (audio and transcript).
7:04:49 AM
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Defense and the National Interest: a company that applies John Boyd's ideas to war and business. The site makes it difficult to get to all of the great resources available.
6:28:34 AM
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© Copyright 2004 John Robb.
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