The weblog of Steve Ivy, going since 1999 in one form or another. Still something of a CMS junkie.
XVI Edition.
☀️ Earliest posts come first.
via /. - Cory Doctorow at SXSW:
There’s an amazing story about the day someone sent the first hotmail message with ‘Get your free email account at hotmail.com’ at the bottom to India. The traffic statistics the next morning, they quintupled overnight, on the strength of one email.
I posted yesterday a response to some comments by Doc Searls at SXSW. Jim responded, which prompted me to respond again. I think my response was one of my better explanations of my political leanings, so I’ve formalized it here. Seth also had some comments worth checking out.
Andrew Grove responds to Hollywood:
“Is it the responsibility of the world at large to protect an industry whose business model is facing a strategic challenge?” […] “Or is it up to the entertainment industry to adapt to a new technical reality and a new set of consumers who want to take advantage of it?”
