John Gruber has posted two great articles on the deficiencies of music subscription services, specifically Napster To Go: Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding the ‘Napster To Go’ Subscription Service and the followup Subscription Small Print. Gruber also makes an important point that iTMS purchases don’t replace CD buying, which speaks to the theory that new media do NOT replace old media (and never have), they supplement or complement old media.
Check it out:
Google Maps. Not with Safari yet, but try it with Firefox. The results are quite stunning. Can Google redefine – through aesthetics as much as accuracy – online maps?
We’re going to get more details
out soon, but if you’re a blogger in Montreal I thought I should give advance notice to set aside the evening of March 19, a Saturday night, for the 5th Anniversary Party for YULBlog at Zeke’s Gallery. We’re pretty sure YULBlog’s First Wednesday is the longest-running regular weblogger gathering in the world, and we ARE sure we should celebrate that! Invitations and information will be coming from me, Patrick, Blork, and/or Chris very soon. Keep an eye on your inboxes, mailboxes, and the YULBlog site and all shall be revealed.
It’s too bad that newspapers
don’t take their role of encouraging public debate more seriously. In fact they damage it by hiding articles behind a subscription barrier. Otherwise I could point Canadian readers to a very good article in today’s Globe and Mail by John Ibbitson that takes religious groups to task for essentially lying to the Canadian public as gay marriage becomes legal in this country. As it stands, you can only read the first two grafs, which hardly gets to the point.
The Register published an
article yesterday that will be of interest to anyone battling comment or trackback span on their site:
Interview with a link spammer. The nofollow stuff doesn’t seem to phase him at all.
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