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The NYC Dance Begins

The hotel is booked.
The booth is reserved.
The comedy event is…well, not updated yet.
Yes, folks, we’re heading back to New York City for MacWorld ~~New York~~ CreativePro Conference And Expo. This will likely be complete overkill, but hey. We’ll be at booth #360, showing off our latest and greatest and selling games at what may or may not be described as “insane prices”.
Katie and I will be staying in the city for an entire week, Sunday through Saturday starting the 13th. This is also serving as sort of a second-chance honeymoon, since our plan was always to make a longer trip this year after the 4 day honeymoon last time.
Anyone who’s in the NYC area and is interested in getting an exhibits-only badge to the conference, let me know. $25 is a ripoff.

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The Infuriation That Is Dave Winer

Post author By Dan Dickinson
Post date July 6, 2003
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Someone on 8 Bits (thanks, Ian) pointed me to an entry at Idle Words entitled “Dave Winer Considered Harmful”. It wonderfully sums up a lot of what I’ve been feeling over the past few weeks with the Echo fight.
Of course, this is extremely well timed because of what I just read on my aggregator. Dave wrote tonight:

We were working on the XML level five years ago. Now we need it to stay quiet down there so we can rock and roll at the political and societal level. It’s not just about ones and zeros boys and girls, it’s about changing the world. The arguments of the software world are so boring. “Let me stand on your toes for a while.” Oy;

This is the same guy who has also said, in recent weeks:

“An open offer to IBM. Anybody but Sam Ruby, please. We need server space and bandwidth for our bootstraps. Provide the space and we’ll give you sponsorship credit, and our thanks. The way you’re entering this market is disgusting. Re-boot and do it right. It’s not too late.”
“At the same time IBM, a staid company of starched white shirts and wing-tip shoes is entering our market under a hail of personal attacks. I grew up in an IBM household. How far they’ve strayed from their roots.”
“So don’t think the fights are trivial, they aren’t. They cut off growth.”

Dave, you’ve made some wonderful contributions to the net in general. But don’t you think you’re being just a smidge hypocritical by claiming that the arguments software world are “so boring” after subjecting the rest of the world to them for the past x months?

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Let The Playground Pirates Rule

Post author By Dan Dickinson
Post date July 6, 2003
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Let the playground pirates rule
Stan provided this link to a fabulous Guardian story about the new disaster-scenario the RIAA is trying to push should people not stop file sharing. I love this paragraph:

“With no visible means of support,” it continues solemnly, “many artists would be forced to stop working and a cultural dark age would ensue.” The implication seems to be that unless downloading ceases immediately, by this time next year the members of Coldplay will be huddled by a roadside somewhere, their shivering fingers pathetically clutching cardboard signs that read “will play intelligent yet slightly melancholy alt-rock for food”.