I’m coming back home and I’m exhausted. I have so much blogging to do it isn’t funny. And my email. Oh, my email.
In there, I see lots of people asking what I think of the latest government action that Microsoft gave in to. I’m too tired to say anything, but it isn’t a proud day for Microsoft or our country. There are lots of opinions on this one — it’s at the top of Memeorandum. It’s also being discussed over on Channel 9.
Just a note on Pittsburgh. It’s been very good to me. The panel discussion last night was interesting and sometimes even a bit controversial (very few businesses in Pittsburgh allow blogging, I learned, and there’s lots of people out there who are trying to get their management to let them do it.) It was recorded so hopefully the recording will be up soon.
I’ll try to check in from the road. I think I have a stop in Chicago on the way to Seattle. Have fun!
Oh, I’m suprised at how few of the people who read here follow Memeorandum. I’ve met quite a few people this week who say they regularly read me but don’t follow either Memeorandum/Tech nor Memeorandum/Politics. After I show them those pages they always say “that’s cool.” It makes me realize just how tough it is to get people to try something new.
Scobleizer 
Thanks for joining us in Pittsburgh. Like you wrote earlier–there’s no question the ‘Burgh has an identity-crisis. Business still attempts to operate under archaic rules, outdated communication policies, and old cultural norms. Yeah, under many circumstance, those norms still work well (respect your elders, be polite, treat people with courtesy); in these areas, Pittsburgh excels. In areas that Richard Florida references, Pittsburgh lags.
The value that your blogging manifesto, “Naked Conversations”, brings to the equation is that blogging allows organizations to break-through many of these cultural norms. You can’t have top-down management and allow grassroots, public conversations occurring about your company. You can’t. Changing the technology is the easy part; changing the culture is not.
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Thanks for joining us in Pittsburgh. Like you wrote earlier–there’s no question the ‘Burgh has an identity-crisis. Business still attempts to operate under archaic rules, outdated communication policies, and old cultural norms. Yeah, under many circumstance, those norms still work well (respect your elders, be polite, treat people with courtesy); in these areas, Pittsburgh excels. In areas that Richard Florida references, Pittsburgh lags.
The value that your blogging manifesto, “Naked Conversations”, brings to the equation is that blogging allows organizations to break-through many of these cultural norms. You can’t have top-down management and allow grassroots, public conversations occurring about your company. You can’t. Changing the technology is the easy part; changing the culture is not.
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Before everyone starts white knighting Google, they deal data out by the truckloads to the Feds. Just you have to pay for it. The Bush Admin’s big mistake was suing for it, just pay for it and Larry and Co. grants all. But Yahoo, AOL and MSN are now evil’er, handing over without even but a wink. Not that you can call MSN a search engine, I mean really.
New Blog of interest: http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/ – “One visitor to the company’s “Googleplex” in Silicon Valley “felt as if I were in the company of missionaries.” A consequence of the theory that Google is aiming to run the world could be that “Google may be less liked in the industry than Microsoft inside 12 months,” says Pip Coburn, a technology analyst. Bloggers have started accusing Google of hubris and arrogance. Paul Saffo at Silicon Valley’s Institute for the Future says that “Google is a religion posing as a company.”
The next great bubble is nigh: mega-major click fraud, bad customer service, arrogance alive, insider dumping on a massive massive scale, “space exploration”, trademark hijacking, wholesale dismissal of copyright law on just whims, CNETgate, Russkie muscle, Atherton anon trusts, Google Joke Pack, Google ummm yeah Video ummm ok, pay-per-click fraud (see WordPress), Triumvirate control posing as a public company (wow, reminds me of Microsoft). And no wonder, “They Are More Like Us than Anyone Else We Have Ever Competed With.” – Bill Gates in Fortune Mag.
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Before everyone starts white knighting Google, they deal data out by the truckloads to the Feds. Just you have to pay for it. The Bush Admin’s big mistake was suing for it, just pay for it and Larry and Co. grants all. But Yahoo, AOL and MSN are now evil’er, handing over without even but a wink. Not that you can call MSN a search engine, I mean really.
New Blog of interest: http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/ – “One visitor to the company’s “Googleplex” in Silicon Valley “felt as if I were in the company of missionaries.” A consequence of the theory that Google is aiming to run the world could be that “Google may be less liked in the industry than Microsoft inside 12 months,” says Pip Coburn, a technology analyst. Bloggers have started accusing Google of hubris and arrogance. Paul Saffo at Silicon Valley’s Institute for the Future says that “Google is a religion posing as a company.”
The next great bubble is nigh: mega-major click fraud, bad customer service, arrogance alive, insider dumping on a massive massive scale, “space exploration”, trademark hijacking, wholesale dismissal of copyright law on just whims, CNETgate, Russkie muscle, Atherton anon trusts, Google Joke Pack, Google ummm yeah Video ummm ok, pay-per-click fraud (see WordPress), Triumvirate control posing as a public company (wow, reminds me of Microsoft). And no wonder, “They Are More Like Us than Anyone Else We Have Ever Competed With.” – Bill Gates in Fortune Mag.
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It makes me realize just how tough it is to get people to try something new.
And you live in your own little bubble too, doncha? (Sigh).
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It makes me realize just how tough it is to get people to try something new.
And you live in your own little bubble too, doncha? (Sigh).
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Microsoft is under all sorts of close scrutiny by the Federal government as it is. To even suggest that Microsoft was wrong to provide data to the government is absurd to the extreme. You can debate the merits of the request all you want but Microsoft as a company can not afford to reject requests that do not include personally identifying information. If there is no clear and unequivocal violation of the law Microsoft must act on a Federal warrant. The people who say other wise are either ignorant of the situation or have as their main goal the causing of trouble for the company. Often both.
One of these days, perhaps, Microsoft will be free of the unreasonable persecution that is being inflected upon it and they will be able to act with more latitude. But if the people who object to Microsoft standing up to this sort of request are serious and sincere they will demonstrate it by protesting the government’s ongoing “anti-trust” activities against Microsoft.
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Microsoft is under all sorts of close scrutiny by the Federal government as it is. To even suggest that Microsoft was wrong to provide data to the government is absurd to the extreme. You can debate the merits of the request all you want but Microsoft as a company can not afford to reject requests that do not include personally identifying information. If there is no clear and unequivocal violation of the law Microsoft must act on a Federal warrant. The people who say other wise are either ignorant of the situation or have as their main goal the causing of trouble for the company. Often both.
One of these days, perhaps, Microsoft will be free of the unreasonable persecution that is being inflected upon it and they will be able to act with more latitude. But if the people who object to Microsoft standing up to this sort of request are serious and sincere they will demonstrate it by protesting the government’s ongoing “anti-trust” activities against Microsoft.
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I don’t understand the comment about “It’s not a proud day for Microsoft or our country”.
What is your reasoning behind that? I’m rather proud that MSN, Yahoo and AOL all decided to provide the data that the DOJ requested in some form or another. Even Google says there isn’t a privacy concern. We ought to be doing everything we can to help protect children from online pornography.
Maybe you were too tired to think straight on this one, but it certainly isn’t a discredit to Microsoft (MSN) that they are providing this information. If anyone ought to receive bad press about this, it should be Google.
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I don’t understand the comment about “It’s not a proud day for Microsoft or our country”.
What is your reasoning behind that? I’m rather proud that MSN, Yahoo and AOL all decided to provide the data that the DOJ requested in some form or another. Even Google says there isn’t a privacy concern. We ought to be doing everything we can to help protect children from online pornography.
Maybe you were too tired to think straight on this one, but it certainly isn’t a discredit to Microsoft (MSN) that they are providing this information. If anyone ought to receive bad press about this, it should be Google.
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As someone responsible for one of those “Oh, my email” emails, I’d just like to point out how impressive it is that you manage to stay up on them, and actually give each a personal response!
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As someone responsible for one of those “Oh, my email” emails, I’d just like to point out how impressive it is that you manage to stay up on them, and actually give each a personal response!
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Man, amazing. You two, ever hear of something called the 4th Amendment? Knock, knock. Maybe James Otis? Yes? This is an online version of the Writs of Assitance.
A man’s house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege. Custom-house officers may enter our houses when they please; we are commanded to permit their entry. Their menial servants may enter, may break locks, bars, and everything in their way; and whether they break through malice or revenge, no man, no court can inquire. Bare suspicion without oath is sufficient. – James Otis, “Against the Writs of Assistance,” 1761
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Man, amazing. You two, ever hear of something called the 4th Amendment? Knock, knock. Maybe James Otis? Yes? This is an online version of the Writs of Assitance.
A man’s house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege. Custom-house officers may enter our houses when they please; we are commanded to permit their entry. Their menial servants may enter, may break locks, bars, and everything in their way; and whether they break through malice or revenge, no man, no court can inquire. Bare suspicion without oath is sufficient. – James Otis, “Against the Writs of Assistance,” 1761
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As for the emails part, I agree on that too. Scoble is impressive the way he responds within a short period of time.
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As for the emails part, I agree on that too. Scoble is impressive the way he responds within a short period of time.
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Hey, look on the bright side.
For once Microisoft sucks just as much as Yahoo. Not more!
Yay!
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Hey, look on the bright side.
For once Microisoft sucks just as much as Yahoo. Not more!
Yay!
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Maybe the DOJ is just wanting to do the work that MS/Yahoo/Google should have been doing in the first place.
If I operated a service that facilitated people getting child porn, I’d have people to try to prevent that. The fact that the search engines don’t means that there certainly is a place for the government to step in and do just that.
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Maybe the DOJ is just wanting to do the work that MS/Yahoo/Google should have been doing in the first place.
If I operated a service that facilitated people getting child porn, I’d have people to try to prevent that. The fact that the search engines don’t means that there certainly is a place for the government to step in and do just that.
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[Memeorandum/Tech/Politics]
Maybe what needs to be improved is the short description below (from Memeorandum site) which FOR EXAMPLE doesn’t say (even quickly) how they gather the topics & comments!
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[Memeorandum/Tech/Politics]
Maybe what needs to be improved is the short description below (from Memeorandum site) which FOR EXAMPLE doesn’t say (even quickly) how they gather the topics & comments!
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“privacy protection” principle or just a public relations move from Google? More likely the latter.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060121/google_stock.html?.v=2
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“privacy protection” principle or just a public relations move from Google? More likely the latter.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060121/google_stock.html?.v=2
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Not a proud day for our country? Not a proud day for Microsoft, and an especially sad day for you, Mr. Scoble.
Despite Microsoft being pure evil, convicted of felony antitrust convictions here at home and abroad, unrepentant in its criminality, a technology-loving geek like yourself still finds the best he can do is work for such an organization, nee shill for it.
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Not a proud day for our country? Not a proud day for Microsoft, and an especially sad day for you, Mr. Scoble.
Despite Microsoft being pure evil, convicted of felony antitrust convictions here at home and abroad, unrepentant in its criminality, a technology-loving geek like yourself still finds the best he can do is work for such an organization, nee shill for it.
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New Blog of interest: http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/ – “One visitor to the company’s “Googleplex” in Silicon Valley “felt as if I were in the company of missionaries.” A consequence of the theory that Google is aiming to run the world could be that “Google may be less liked in the industry than Microsoft inside 12 months,” says Pip Coburn, a technology analyst. Bloggers have started accusing Google of hubris and arrogance. Paul Saffo at Silicon Valley’s Institute for the Future says that “Google is a religion posing as a company.”
I support people fighting corporate corruption and power, but words like “Google is a religion posing as a company” might as well have come from the mothership in Redmond.
After all, what does Microsoft call its competitors or their customers but “fanatics” (in the case of Mac users), “cancer” (when referring to Linux or the GPL) and now “religions”, to confront Google.
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New Blog of interest: http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/ – “One visitor to the company’s “Googleplex” in Silicon Valley “felt as if I were in the company of missionaries.” A consequence of the theory that Google is aiming to run the world could be that “Google may be less liked in the industry than Microsoft inside 12 months,” says Pip Coburn, a technology analyst. Bloggers have started accusing Google of hubris and arrogance. Paul Saffo at Silicon Valley’s Institute for the Future says that “Google is a religion posing as a company.”
I support people fighting corporate corruption and power, but words like “Google is a religion posing as a company” might as well have come from the mothership in Redmond.
After all, what does Microsoft call its competitors or their customers but “fanatics” (in the case of Mac users), “cancer” (when referring to Linux or the GPL) and now “religions”, to confront Google.
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