--- title: links for 2008-01-14 date: 2008-01-14T05:20:40Z modified: 2008-01-14T05:20:40Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/01/13/links-for-2008-01-14/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1916 categories: - Links timestamp: 2008-01-14T05:20:40Z tags: - Links --- - [Under pressure from EMI, RIAA could disappear](http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080111-under-pressure-from-emi-riaa-could-disappear.html) “As rumors continue to swirl that EMI will pull its funding from music trade groups like the RIAA and IFPI, an IFPI spokesman tells Ars that the group is in the middle of a major internal review of its operations.” – an ephiphany, or a budget crisis? (tags: [riaa](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/riaa) [music](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/music) [emi](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/emi) [copyright](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/copyright) [business](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/business) [ifpi](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ifpi) [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics)) - [SVN Scripts and Tools | alexking.org](http://alexking.org/blog/2008/01/12/svn-scripts-and-tools) looks like Crowd Favorite hasn’t gotten the DVCS religion yet (tags: [howto](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/howto) [svn](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/svn) [crowdfavorite](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/crowdfavorite) [subversion](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/subversion) [dvcs](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/dvcs)) - [Weblog |](http://www.dehora.net/journal/2008/01/13/journal-notes/) “The real question to ask is whether building a desktop PIM makes sense anymore; personally I doubt it.” – an excellent question (tags: [desktop](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/desktop) [pim](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/pim) [chandler](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/chandler) [mitchkapor](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mitchkapor) [billdehóra](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/billdehóra)) - [Phoning In Wireless Dreams – Forbes.com](http://www.forbes.com/business/2008/01/10/verizon-wireless-auction-tech-wire-cx_ew_0110auction.html) “New…wireless services will arise in the future, but not..because telcos want them. Google…are pushing telcos–which move slowly and…operate closed networks as a form of quality control–to open their networks…, and…spur innovation…” (tags: [google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/google) [android](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/android) [wireless](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/wireless) [innovation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/innovation) [mobile](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mobile) [fcc](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/fcc) [auction](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/auction) [via:bill](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:bill)) - [Innovation To Suffer Should Telcos Win In Upcoming Wireless Auction? | mocoNews.net](http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-innovation-to-suffer-should-telcos-win-in-upcoming-wireless-auction/) “Telcos are once again painted as the lumbering, wary giants who are being dragged kicking and screaming toward innovation, and believe that consumers really just want voice calls.” – mostly because that’s the case, methinks (tags: [auction](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/auction) [fcc](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/fcc) [mobile](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/mobile) [google](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/google) [innovation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/innovation) [android](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/android) [via:bill](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:bill)) - [The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry](http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone?currentPage=all) “In other words, the very development that wireless carriers feared for so long may prove to be exactly what they need. It took Steve Jobs to show them that.” – a sad, but necessary observation of the state of mobile here in the US (tags: [iphone](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/iphone) [apple](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/apple) [business](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/business) [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics) [at&t](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/at&t) [carriers](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/carriers) [innovation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/innovation) [businessmodels](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/businessmodels) [via:adam](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:adam)) - [Business Technology : Are CIOs Losing Their Influence?](http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/12/26/are-cios-losing-their-influence/) “Technology has been democratized to the point where businesses will simply ignore a CIO who tries to be the commander in chief of all things tech.” – if you’ve seen me present in the last 3 or 4 years, you’ll know i agree with this (tags: [cio](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/cio) [bottomup](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/bottomup) [democratization](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/democratization) [technology](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/technology) [adoption](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/adoption) [procurement](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/procurement) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [via:brenda](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:brenda)) - [socialthing! blog » Blog Archive » The Hype Machine and Admitting When You’re Wrong](http://blog.socialthing.com/2008/01/12/the-hype-machine-and-admitting-when-youre-wrong/) not about the real “Hype Machine”, but an interesting case study in unintentionally overpromising (tags: [hype](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hype) [socialthing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/socialthing) [expectations](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/expectations) [via:alex](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:alex)) - [AaronGleeman.com](http://www.aarongleeman.com/2008_01_06_baseballblog_archive.html#4376546875210444466) i’d take Hughes over Ellsbury too – and actually hope the Yankees do, if the Mets don’t – but i think this undervalues Ellsbury’s on base skills, as he’s never been below .360 as a pro, and that was in the AFL. still, good analysis. (tags: [philhughes](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/philhughes) [jacobyellsbury](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/jacobyellsbury) [trade](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/trade) [analysis](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/analysis) [redsox](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redsox) [yankees](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/yankees) [twins](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/twins) [aarongleeman](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/aarongleeman) [via:alex](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:alex)) - [Sun Plans To Close Its Data Centers – Forbes.com](http://www.forbes.com/2008/01/11/sun-virtualization-data-tech-intel-cx_ag_0111sun.html?feed=rss_popstories) i guess this answers the “will they be merely an arms supplier or will they develop their own presence” question (tags: [sun](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sun) [datacenters](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/datacenters) [hardware](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hardware) [outsourcing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/outsourcing))