This slashdot comment from pete-classic is spot-on.

There is a more fundamental problem with advertising.
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When the users of a service pay for the service, they are the customers, and the service is the product. When advertisers pay for a service, they are the customers, and the users are the product. The service itself is relegated to a loss-leader; bait to attract users so they can be sold to the advertisers.
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This is one of the primary reasons why TV is such a wasteland, while the DVD landscape is so rich.

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every time I try to tell my myspace/friendster friends why I don’t trust the service, most don’t understand. So there it is!
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P.S.: I collect bright slashdot comments for quite a while, first by memepalm, then del.icio.us and now by twitter. it’s all about double filtering, heh?

…and I’m just waiting for it to appear to openmoko to get rid of my iphone. it will take a while, I know.

• ad-hoc communications the gadgets communicate with one another without a central connection
• voip carriers will NEVER allow a corporate phone to have it. it spells death to them.
• cryptography with USA government into this spying frenzy, no carrier would offer this option

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frankly, i’m waiting for an openmoko + flex app because the adobe thermo presentation really inspired me. assuming adobe is as pissed off at apple as we consumers are, I assume adobe + open source can tap into all this innovation that apple arrogantly snubbed.

NYC’s true graffiti problem

from slashdot:
Developing an overblown DRM system: Millions of dollars.
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Hiring consultants to tell you it’ll really, really work this time after firing all the ones who informed you copy protection is a cryptographic impossibility: Thousands of dollars.
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Paying lawyers to send cease-and-desist letters to thousands of websites after the key leaks: $500/hour.
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Watching yet another DRM scheme go up in flames shortly after its release: Priceless.
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also, check the formerly-known-as Secret Number as Photoshop art, from wired. stupid overpiced suits, just die already.

write it on your calendars: today is the day we realized, with no shadow of a doubt, that the traditional media corporate types know nothing about the internet age.
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stupid clueless arrogant pigs. how can we let them be in charge of our storytelling abilities?
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the image is from icanhascheezburger: cute animals and bad grammar, with love. imagine the fuzzy kitty powerpoint your female coworkers send out, with the power of the leet internetzz. fear.