Subscriptions: In These Times, Wired, Harpers, Dwell, Fast Company, Business 2.0, ReadyMade, Found, Nest, MacWorld, Details, The Sun, Entertainment Weekly
Regular purchases: This, Mother Jones, Legal Affairs, Ten by Ten, Colors, Fortune, Newsweek, The Economist, Maximum PC, PC World, Anthem
It's as close to the internet as you can get without a screen. Easier to hold and more durable than a newspaper. Often higher quality writing or deeper analysis than in dailies or online, and more infographics. Who doesn't love infographics?!
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hi, we've put together a package of articles to coincide with the show. here's some links:
AN UPHILL BATTLE: INTERVIEW WITH LAWRENCE LESSIG
Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig is the nation's leading advocate for intellectual property law reform; we interview him
about the state of the movement.
THE PIRATES OF HOLLYWOOD
The language of film may be universal, but don't tell that to the Motion Picture Association of America--you might end up in court.
MUSIC FOR THE MASSES
When Lester Chambers stepped onto the stage to galvanize the audience with "People Get Ready," his band included one guy who looked like he might be from the IRS. But he wasn't. He was there from the Federal Communications Commission.
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
The power of corporations to censor was greatly expanded by the passage in 1998 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was written by and for the lobbies that paid to push it through Congress--the software, entertainment, pharmaceutical and other intellectual property industries.
Granted I'm the sysadmin for a really small non-profit magazine. But we get plenty of x86 donations. Here's where OS X for a server will really shine, for someone like me. I have to support from 20-30 machines, do art direction for the magazine, and run the web site. We have W2k on the business staff, macs for editors and artists, and random crap for interns and fact checkers.
I need to provide stable print, file and intranet services to all these machines, and while I get a kick out of editing conf files and hacking away from the shell, there's simply not enough time in the day. The integrated aqua/unix environment has enabled me to offer a working production environment while I learn the ins and outs of unix. I'd guess there are a lot of former Macheads like myself that have spent the last year falling in love with unix and open source. The integrated OS X environment has given me enough confidence on a command line to begin converting every windows box in the office to mandrake.
Here's where the beauty of OS X server comes in. I could probably provide print queues and file shares from Linux or Windows, but it will take 20 minutes to have the whole staff networked and converted to a DHCP protocol next week. Everyone from Linux to Windows, to OS 9 to OS X gets the same data repository. We can automate backups from every machine, and with Remote Desktop I can even manage editor workstations simultaneously.
I think when OS X server 2.0 comes out the small business market will really benefit. There's gonna be CUPS underneath the printer core, more integrated remote control functions, and piles of speed improvements. My job keeps getting easier.
There are so many backend hotshots and content delivery gurus on Slashdot. Clean, streamlined design and multimedia are not mutually exclusive, regardless of what the current crop of webmasters push on people.
Part of the dip in web popularity and content, content, content push right now has something to do with how BORING most sites are visually. Information and communication can be highly visual, multimedia experiences without the techno soundtrack and popup windows. "Content-freaks" tend to forget that photos, infographics, video, audio (used sparingly), even motion graphics are often ESSENTIAL components of successful communication.
I think good web design goes beyond presenting viewers with long articles and extensive commenting/forum features.
It's the attention to detail.
Sites like k10k, pixelsurgeon, presstube, and others, succeed in providing visual stimulation, while google, slash-anything, etc. succeed in providing content. There are very few sites that succeed at both. None that I've ever done. Probably because the number one feature people ask for is SPEED.
Well used flash, with a nice php/sql powered backend, can really deliver speedy content to slow modems and fast modems alike.
That said, I'm still leery of using flash on front doors and on high traffic / wide user-base sites.
Oh and one other thing that drives me crazy. Forms that don't allow auto-fill for states b/c of pull down menus, and forms with excessive validation or required fill boxes...
Slashdot Mirror
Subscriptions: In These Times, Wired, Harpers, Dwell, Fast Company, Business 2.0, ReadyMade, Found, Nest, MacWorld, Details, The Sun, Entertainment Weekly
Regular purchases: This, Mother Jones, Legal Affairs, Ten by Ten, Colors, Fortune, Newsweek, The Economist, Maximum PC, PC World, Anthem
It's as close to the internet as you can get without a screen. Easier to hold and more durable than a newspaper. Often higher quality writing or deeper analysis than in dailies or online, and more infographics. Who doesn't love infographics?!
hi, we've put together a package of articles to coincide with the show. here's some links:
AN UPHILL BATTLE: INTERVIEW WITH LAWRENCE LESSIG
Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig is the nation's leading advocate for intellectual property law reform; we interview him about the state of the movement.
THE PIRATES OF HOLLYWOOD
The language of film may be universal, but don't tell that to the Motion Picture Association of America--you might end up in court.
MUSIC FOR THE MASSES
When Lester Chambers stepped onto the stage to galvanize the audience with "People Get Ready," his band included one guy who looked like he might be from the IRS. But he wasn't. He was there from the Federal Communications Commission.
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
The power of corporations to censor was greatly expanded by the passage in 1998 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was written by and for the lobbies that paid to push it through Congress--the software, entertainment, pharmaceutical and other intellectual property industries.
Granted I'm the sysadmin for a really small non-profit magazine. But we get plenty of x86 donations. Here's where OS X for a server will really shine, for someone like me. I have to support from 20-30 machines, do art direction for the magazine, and run the web site. We have W2k on the business staff, macs for editors and artists, and random crap for interns and fact checkers.
I need to provide stable print, file and intranet services to all these machines, and while I get a kick out of editing conf files and hacking away from the shell, there's simply not enough time in the day. The integrated aqua/unix environment has enabled me to offer a working production environment while I learn the ins and outs of unix. I'd guess there are a lot of former Macheads like myself that have spent the last year falling in love with unix and open source. The integrated OS X environment has given me enough confidence on a command line to begin converting every windows box in the office to mandrake.
Here's where the beauty of OS X server comes in. I could probably provide print queues and file shares from Linux or Windows, but it will take 20 minutes to have the whole staff networked and converted to a DHCP protocol next week. Everyone from Linux to Windows, to OS 9 to OS X gets the same data repository. We can automate backups from every machine, and with Remote Desktop I can even manage editor workstations simultaneously.
I think when OS X server 2.0 comes out the small business market will really benefit. There's gonna be CUPS underneath the printer core, more integrated remote control functions, and piles of speed improvements. My job keeps getting easier.
There are so many backend hotshots and content delivery gurus on Slashdot. Clean, streamlined design and multimedia are not mutually exclusive, regardless of what the current crop of webmasters push on people.
Part of the dip in web popularity and content, content, content push right now has something to do with how BORING most sites are visually. Information and communication can be highly visual, multimedia experiences without the techno soundtrack and popup windows. "Content-freaks" tend to forget that photos, infographics, video, audio (used sparingly), even motion graphics are often ESSENTIAL components of successful communication.
I think good web design goes beyond presenting viewers with long articles and extensive commenting/forum features.
It's the attention to detail.
Sites like k10k, pixelsurgeon, presstube, and others, succeed in providing visual stimulation, while google, slash-anything, etc. succeed in providing content. There are very few sites that succeed at both. None that I've ever done. Probably because the number one feature people ask for is SPEED.
Well used flash, with a nice php/sql powered backend, can really deliver speedy content to slow modems and fast modems alike.
That said, I'm still leery of using flash on front doors and on high traffic / wide user-base sites.
Oh and one other thing that drives me crazy. Forms that don't allow auto-fill for states b/c of pull down menus, and forms with excessive validation or required fill boxes...
Been thinking about this a lot myself.