Lynne Kiesling I recommend this recent Grant McCracken post about Coca-Cola in the U.S. and Mexico. Grant asks if the reason more Americans are buying Mexican Coke (and Coca-Cola is trying to stop it) is about taste. Perhaps. But several of his commenters hit on the crucial distinction between the two formulations: Mexican Coke still …
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Lynne Kiesling So then I go check out Eric Raymond’s reply to Jaron Lanier, and his critique of Lanier focuses on two aspects that I wanted to use as follow-up posts. The first is Liebowitz and Margolis’s “Fable of the Keys” argument: The essay continues with a vulgar error about technology lock-in effects. I yield …
Lynne Kiesling I can already tell that I am going to enjoy the Cato Unbound series on the Internet and technology. Jaron Lanier’s initial essay is full of provocative claims and ideas; I’ve been mulling over some of them all weekend. He ranges from criticizing the path-dependent nature of the file structure of operating systems …
Lynne Kiesling The irrepressible Manolo is infesting Chicago and about to shop on the Mile of the Magnificence (not the Mile of the Miracles). My advice to Manolo: get out in the ‘hoods! I love Michigan Avenue and Oak Street as much as any other shopping hound, but the plenitude of capitalism means that most …
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Lynne Kiesling While I’m at Wired, their car blog Autopia is an interesting read, particularly if you are interested in hybrid and/or hydrogen vehicle technologies. The current top post is on an Edmunds estimate that hybrids drivers saved $112 million in fuel costs in 2005. The commenters also raise some good points.
Lynne Kiesling Interesting news item from Wired: Sonic Fabric is made from recycled audio tape woven with cotton, and it can be played to create (or re-create!) sound from four of the tracks on the tape. Sonic Fabric is the creation of audio-visual artist Alyce Santoro, and the Wired article describes the origins of the …
Lynne Kiesling Yesterday I attended a conference at Carnegie-Mellon on valuation of distributed monitoring and sensing technologies. One of the primary benefits of distributed sensing is that it reduces transaction costs and information costs, thus leading to more efficient transactions and to the developement of new products, services, and markets. Sadly, this benefit is really, …
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Lynne Kiesling It is a testimony to my long friendship with Mr. Seat that I relent to confess publicly five weird things about myself, as he requested. I prefer to think of them as quirky instead of weird, but your mileage may vary. 1. I knit in bars, movies, and the opera. Our opera seats …
Lynne Kiesling From the privatization file … the city of Rochester, NY has closed its high-speed passenger+car catamaran service between Rochester and Toronto. According to an article from Newsday, The city’s new mayor, Robert Duffy, rejected a $11.5 million loan request to bankroll the Lake Ontario ferry service in 2006. Instead, he will ask the …
Michael Giberson Wonkette blogger-in-chief Ana Marie Cox is turning in the keys to the Wonkette kingdom for a shot at fame and fortune in the fusty world of ink-on-paper publishing. Her novel, Dog Days, was recently published and she has a deal ? in the ?mid-six-figures? according to one report ? to write about the …
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