Sunday, December 26, 2004

What's wrong with the iPod? 

Thomas Roessler: "Why don't iPods enable us to share music?" 

Steve Gillmor says that the NY Times has changed its archive policy. Apparently all links older than a week are gone, even if they have the magic bits on them. If this is true, it's quite disappointing, now only the BBC maintains an archive of news stories. I've been pointing to Times articles on the assumption that they would keep working over the years. Perhaps this is just a technical glitch. I've sent a note to people at the Times asking for clarification. 

I just checked Steve's assertion, and it does not appear to be correct. For example, here's an archive page from Nov 28. The top item is a link to a NY Times article. The link works. 

NY Times: "Most powerful quake in 40 years." 

I got an email last night from a friend from Seattle, on vacation on a beach in Thailand in the path of the tsunami. Are they okay? We don't know. 

Ijonas Kisselbach writes: "Koh Pah Ngan is on the other side of mainland Thailand, which didn't suffer any tsunamis. Koh Phi Phi and Phuket were badly hit though." 

Zawodny: "I'm always worried when anyone talks of great little companies being bought by a Big Company." 

Talking Points Memo: "The president and the White House have now compared their build-up to the Iraq war with their push to phase out Social Security enough times that it seems worth creating a detailed taxonomy of the Bush White House approach." 

One of the reasons for staying with Netflix instead of switching to Blockbuster is the new releases feed from Netflix.