"Marketing 1601" Article Pulled For Fact Checking

"Marketing 1601: Burger King Doesn't Do Email" was published by me on Saturday without sufficient fact checking. My staff (looks at empty room) failed me. I believe that the company of interest was Carl's Jr.... more to follow. The offensive "Chicken Ad" is explained here.

Fast Innovations In Weather Maps

Ok, I was impressed with the Wired News Hurricane Wiki article, and stumbled onto yet another use of weather graphics at hainsworth.com today. Speed of innovation with networked tools is really pretty impressive.

Five Cents A Glance: Chicago's Museum Of Broadcast Communications Et. Al.

While in transit today, heard that the new Chicago Museum Of Broadcast Communications will be providing digital content.


Some other sources for digital museum media include the Museum Of Television and Radio (NY and LAX) and museum.media.org.

Great emphemeral public domain material's also at http://www.archive.org/ with movies and audio files.

This digital magic bears some very analog Copyright encumberances (including a FAX requirement). Its not that people and organizations don't merit copyright protection; we're still doing this with sharp pointy sticks.

Ted Nelson (at Oxford , site in rewrite) or in Japan has long proposed mechanisms of networked copyright way back when I had hair in Project Xanadu. We still need these mechanisms.

Now, there are many places and points I've missed in this note; however, the flow and "fairness" of balancing access and copyright process causes blisters. I think I'll go ponder for a bit on this one. I'm interested also in how the broadband providers stand on this issue; seems in their self-interest to improve the state of the art.

Maybe Steve Jobs is onto something?

Performance Test Lab

I get a crushing chest pain when I read the words "Performance Test Lab". They have no standard meaning.

After reading about Red Hat and H-P's project on Slashdot, I conducted a Google survey of "Performance Test Lab".

Bonafide, guaranteed, unscientific mix of signal and noise. I assure you, this has no standard meaning.

Windows.....250
Macintosh...241
Linux.......189
Unix........169
SAN.........163
Oracle......106
Browser......94
TCP/IP.......75
Solaris......67
Firefox......54
Ethernet.....51
EMC..........49
MySQL........43
Cisco........43
Explorer.....37
Novell.......35
Amiga........32
DB2..........32
Fibrechannel.24
Opera........24
Sybase.......17
PS2..........16
Token Ring...15
Gameboy......14
AS/400.......14
NAS..........13
Symbian......13
Wang.........12
ATM..........12
MVS..........10
IPv6..........9
Citrix........8
FDDI..........7
Teradata......6
VMS...........6
SNA...........3
VM............3
BeOS..........1
Infiniband....1
TPF...........1
Beowulf.......1
Grendl........0 (Chuckle)
X.25/Arcnet...0
SMDS..........0 (Muahhaha)
PDP or Nova...0 (Sigh)

Back Again

There comes a time when innovation has recycled great ideas. This is not one of those times.