Month: January 2002

Recession’s over, according to Tom Siebel ::: Even though my company competes with Siebel on occasion, I have to admit I admire the company and the way Siebel has started and run it. This is a great article in Forbes (you’ll need to register; don’t worry, it’s free) that talks about how Siebel saw the…

Climbing to Greatness with Jim Collins ::: I just started reading Good to Great by Jim Collins last night. If the rest of the book is as good as the article above (from Booz Allen’s strategy+business magazine), or last fall’s article in Fast Company, it’s going to be a very enlightening read. Most surprising is…

FBI May Use Keystroke-Recording Device Without Wiretap Order ::: Turns out that Pretty Good Privacy ain’t so good if the FBI has you in their sights. Nicodemo Scarfo Jr. is an allged crime boss who was indicted in June, 2000 for loan-sharking and gambling charges. What makes the case interesting is that the government obtained…

I Can’t Stop Thinking! #5 ::: OK, this should be my last post on micropayments. But this comic strip by Scott McCloud is a great explanation of how micropayments might work, why they’re good for content providers, and how consumers would benefit. (Found a link to this from James Gleick’s home page, who has his…

Micropayments won’t work ::: Josh Marshall, the man behind Talking Points Memo, responded to my post on micropayments by saying that he doesn’t see them addressing the needs of web content providers. But as we’ll see, it’s exactly those other content providers who need micropayments to work – because the advertising model is not supporting…