Innovative Game Design Symposium
January 26, 2005 | CommentsAnyone going to this? I'm kind of contemplating it - work committments permitting, though it looks quite interesting and dovetails nicely with a weekend.
\"I'M ON THE TRAIN\"
January 26, 2005 | CommentsMark@Fjord (who's just started blogging, by the way) has an interesting post about why people talk loudly on their phones in public: "...we tend to moderate our volume by ambient noise (loud on a train for instance) and how well we can hear our interlocutor, which of course does not bear on how well they can hear us"
\"Track changes\" in weblogs?
January 25, 2005 | CommentsI'd never noticed NetNewsWire doing this before:

Is it really noticing changes between versions of a story in an RSS feed and highlighting said changes? If so - WOW. If the Guardian have the honesty to be driving this process in any way: WOW.
Doctorow on Mobile DRM
January 25, 2005 | CommentsCory Doctorow, succinctly sums up mobile DRM: "Well, locomotives didn't require horseshoes. You know, the blacksmiths might not have liked the fact that locomotives didn't require horseshoes. But if you started a business to outfit locomotives with special horseshoes in order to keep the blacksmiths happy, you probably wouldn't have lasted very long. Likewise, if you're starting a business to outfit phones with special locks that make it hard to copy things in order to make the music industry happy, then you're probably not long for this world. "