March, 13, 2001 archives
clay shirky is a very wise man. i like his points about the riaa, and the corporatization of media.
google is another of those companies i just like because they seem to have a good corporate philosophy. this interview with larry page, the co-founder/ceo, illustrates what i mean, i think.
unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. a study from cornell. basically, incompetent people think they are more competent than they are, and vice versa.
one of my personal heroes is steve martin. the man is just too funny. he should be entertaining as the host of the academy awards.
sand pendulum art, as produced by the seattle earthquake.
salon says that programmers are having a hard time finding jobs. or at least that's what the headline would have you believe. the article itself reveals that it is the junior-grade people ("i'm an html programmer!") that are finding that their skills aren't as highly valued as they were a year ago. (insert some sort of snide comment here about poor "hannah" who suffered the indignity of being offered a $35k job.)
go.com made a deal with goto.com. that's pretty funny, considering the wrangling over their logos a year ago. i remember when goto.com used to have a cute picture of a napkin that outlined how sparse their homepage would be -- no portal, just a search box. (you know, like google is still.). hmm.
some cool (faked) isometric screenshots of what real life would look like as a sim game. or something to that effect.
with a little html scraping hackery, i've added headlines from inside.com to my news page. next stop, los angeles times. (eventually i may add some republishing of these scraped feeds. which will probably lead to a cease and desist letter, even though they'd be the ones getting all the financial gain.)
i'll be on my way to internet world shortly (via los angeles subway, no less). hopefully it will be as depressing as last year.
the whole music industry is such a scam.
so internet world was deathly dull, as expected. kentia hall wasn't even being used (usually where the little loser companies end up). there certainly are a crapload of content management software companies out there.