The Social Customer Manifesto has a post about Lego(R) putting up a notice if you go to legos.com that the name that people have commonly referred to its products might not be preserving the brand. We are not supposed to call them Legos. They are Lego bricks or Lego toys.
The comments […]
I just found out that my webhost will be changing the server I am hosted on this weekend. I will have to basically shut off the blog so that no moving parts are running while everything is moved to a new machine. That means no comments, trackbacks, or posts until the move is […]
Thanks to Blue Sky on Mars, I found The Customer is Always Wrong: A User’s Guide to DRM in Online Music, the EFF guide to Digital Resctrictions Management.
Many digital music services employ digital rights management (DRM) — also known as “copy protection” — that prevents you from doing things like using the portable player of […]
1UP reprinted an article from Computer Gaming World titled Pop Culture Pariah: Why Are Videogames The Favorite Demon of the Mainstream Media?
While it was informative, I really don’t like the idea that we just have to wait it out until people who are gamers grow up and take over society from the previous […]
In the latest Escapist, The Contrarian: Roll the Dice mentions ESR’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
I’m reminded of Eric S. Raymond’s essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote about the differences between top-down, monolithic software development and bottom-up, open-source development. But the metaphor applies here too.
People don’t always get what the Cathedral […]
Blizzard wins lawsuit on video game hacking. If you are not familiar with this case, basically Ross Combs and Rob Crittenden are two guys were fed up with Battle.net being unresponsive and decide to reverse-engineer their own version of it called bnetd.
My take? Just from the article, it sounds like if it wasn’t […]
I remember when Steve Pavlina started his personal development website, stevepavlina.com, and his picture at the top was kind of jarring. It’s like any online personality, I guess. When you read the words of someone online for any length of time, you might have some vague image in your head of what they […]
I had made up a plan for the next year or so that gets more vague and indefinite as the year goes on. It makes sense to me to do it this way since I have no idea what things will be like in a year, but I can have some very specific goals […]
After Blog Day introduced me to some new blogs. I started reading through The Master Smiled and found Crossing the Ocean.
In this one, the Master points out that those who sailed the oceans first had to ignore the warnings of those who told them they couldn’t do so. He then wonders what it is […]
I was on a student health insurance plan up until July. Since I am no longer in school, I can’t take advantage of it anymore. I started to look for a new insurance plan earlier that month, and I figured I would cancel my plan once I knew I had a replacement. […]
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