Rafat says: “Apple in deal with everyone to do everything.”

Mulligan management: Tom Rogers, former chairman and
CEO of Primedia, has been
named president and CEO of TiVo. Let’s hope one learns from
ones mistakes. If not, get ready for some share-price cliff diving.

(via:
paidcontent.org)

Hipster PDA printer: On more
than one ocassion, when I’ve mentioned the phrase “my hipster PDA,” someone within
earshot will also pull out their stack of three-by-five index
cards. Now its creator, Merlin Mann has
reviewed some <$75 printers that will print index cards…I sense a new anti-status symbol coming my way.

If nominated, I will not run: Brent Simmons, creator (with Shelia) of software I live in (NetNewsWire & MarsEdit), says he’d vote for me for Senate (thanks, but no thanks.). While I told Brent and Shelia I am a big fan of their software, I wish I had thanked them personally for the time-saving, productivity-enhancing gift they have provided me with their newsreader, NetNewsWire — I guess I have, now.

It’s about RSS & attention: Says Nick Bradbury — “See, I believe we’ve won the RSS battle and the next battle is for attention, and we should let everyone who hopes to gain from our attention data know that we want it back.”

What Dan Gillmor said: “The
Supreme Court has given the entertainment cartel and emerging broadband
duopoly just what they wanted. You, and innovation, lost.”

However, others see the decision as providing a blueprint for how to pass the “inducement test” and successfully utilize P2P technologies.

Quote:

“This is not a death knell for P2P,” Anderson said. “In fact, it seems to create some groundwork for creating a distinction between something like Grokster and a network technology like BitTorrent.”

(via: paidcontent.org)

Tueday iTunes 4.9? Dave says that’s the rumor he’s hearing. Also, he’s hearing Apple will, “announce a big corporate content partnership.”

Digging out: Observation - When one has been gone for 10 days, one has lots of stuff in ones in-box. Translation: sparse blogging today.