Tara Grubb New Site
27 Aug 2002Dave Winer is helping Tara Grubb with her new website. Looks great, but where are the signups to help :).
Tipster (a little crossposting)
27 Aug 2002In a mystical land called Hack The Planet
It seems there have been little developments in voluntary payments. I think it would be nice to have such a thing to combine with the exciting P2P work that’s going on, as well as combat some entertainment-industry FUD.
To which I replied:
Hell, yes. In this time of the media co. running around screaming “they’re stealing, they’re stealing” we don’t yet have a way to show them that we aren’t stealing, they just don’t know how to run a business in a modern era. Tipster is what’s needed. For one, the name is great, a few people could figure out what it is right away. What’s needed is the “PGP” or “Deep Crack” approach. We know it can be done in theory, but no one that I’ve seen has gotten theory in code. Without that working example the world will just ignore us. The main app is a media player, possibly just focusing on music Version 1.0
- MusicBrainz (for the metadata)
- MuiscLink (aka FairTunes) like service
The main idea is to track what the user has listened to and every month prompt the user to pay $20 in which x% goes to the artist they listened to x% of the month, etc. Version 2.0
- MusicBrainz
- Artist pages that are Tipster aware
- OpenDBS or other low overhead payment system
Cut that middle man out of the picture. MP3/ogg files tell us where to send the $$$. You could do quite a few things to make this app more attractive than winamp/kazaa:
- Allow creation of peer recomendation groups
- integration with a p2p network
- CD cover art
- Self organizing library using MusicBrainz metadata
- Bitzi file rating system
- use mp3guessenc to weed out and replace Xing encoded mp3’s
I’m hoping to move in this direction myself.
What no e-diamonds?
20 Aug 2002Great article on how we’ve all been dupped it think diamonds are worth the price we pay.
New Digs?
17 Aug 2002Laura and I might be moving at the end of Sept. Laura’s cousin has an aunt (on the side of the family not related to Laura) that owns 40 acres in Ivy with two small houses on it. One of these house is about 100 years old (we think), and the tenant is moving out. Here is a picture of the house:
The bad thing is we have to break the lease on our current apartment with a two month rent penalty charge. The good thing is our rent will be going down and we can actually start saving some money. Oh, yeah, that and this place has much more class.
Mock Cyberwar
14 Aug 2002(how many times can I use “cyber” tonight?) The Register has a story on a Cyberwar performance art piece put on by with our tax money (US Military is becoming the new NEA?). The story is notable for this quote:
Human beings simply aren’t as fragile and narcotically-dependent on state authority as the government desperately desires them to be.
As they say on AOL: LOL!