is really undergoing a serious period of crisis. Not due to stuff like Napster and such – due to the seeming incompetence of the “entertainment” companies and the politicians in their pocket. Napster was the best thing that could have happened to the music industry. It should have been a cash cow! Anyhow the whole gang has just taken another step towards oblivion with Fritz Hollings’ renamed SSSCA: Anti-Copy Bill Hits DC.
Archives for 2002
Paul Boutin
Excuse the silence here lately. My life is simply way too busy for reason at this time, which has severely interfered with my blogging. Between my job, my other job, and my board work and the rest of my life, something had to give.
Glenn Fleishman
wrote about what he has learned following an episode in which Google removed the links to his site, isbn.nu. No fault of Google’s, just a glitch in the system really, but it had an interesting impact upon Glenn’s business.
Cameron Barrett
blogs the weblog panel. Meg kicks off an interesting discussion by positing that weblogs bring together a breadth of knowledge unmatched in traditional journalism.
It’s International Women’s Day
today. I’m not big on setting aside a single day to recognize the worth and importance of fully 51% of humanity, but nonetheless, happy day! Nadia has written an interesting article on this subject today, based on her thoughts and the responses to an email that she sent out earlier in the week.
I was lucky – my mother is and was a feminist, a business-owner, and an all around great role-model both for me and about the role that women can play in society. That kind of upbringing is fundamental to who I am today. In my life, the event which most clearly marked my development on the relationship between men and women in society was December 6, for sure. By then I was already clearly pro-feminist, but the terrible events of that day (which I remember here annually) served to change the place that these ideas had in my life. From that day on, the idea that women were to be respected as equals in every way was not simply a background thought but an up-front concern. It went from background feeling to an everyday commitment.
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