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You may remember a popular website where one guy collected and posted the 10 worst album covers of all time? If not, go check it out — they are pretty funny. Yesterday Fark linked to the Sun, which was running it’s own version of the worst album covers ever. The only [...]

Just a few more assorted short thoughts today:
Bruce Schneier’s post on the Kutztown 13 struck a chord with me. Particular the line about how the kids hadn’t committed a crime. In fact, “no malicious acts are alleged”, but rather “they outsmarted the district’s technology workers.” This reminds me of the time [...]

Introduction
As people have been anticipating all week, Google has just launched a new instant messaging application. It uses the open source/open standard Jabber protocols, has its own built-in voice protocol, and uses Google accounts (i.e., Gmail accounts) for login information. Smart choices all around — and a very reasonable business play.
A year [...]

After a few people checked in on me to make sure I was still alive, here’s an update:
Not dead, just busy. Travel, meetings, work, moving. Little chance to catch up on email, unfortunately. No new developments on the new project, other than the realization that perhaps the most important application that can [...]

I will be at the Search Engine Stategies conference in San Jose next Monday, August 8th, discussing search APIs. Also on the panel is Jeremy Zawodny — this is should be a lot of fun, as Jeremy always has some interesting things to say, and Yahoo! is doing an exemplary job in this space. [...]

So the issue becomes two pronged - can you work a system that benefits both the artists and the end users AND can you also make this system so that it is a transparent replacement to the existing system so that the end users don’t know and/or don’t care that the system has been replaced.

Eric [...]