Business 2.0 : Creative Commons
Andy Raskin of Business 2.0: “Creative Commons encourages artists to share and distribute their work for free. And that could be the key to a new multibillion-dollar industry.”
College interns : you get what you pay for
Laura Vanderkam of USA Today writes about the market for college interns in the United States and concludes “unpaid internships are rarely in employers’ best interests.” (via MetaFilter)
NetStumbler 0.4.0
NetStumbler 0.4.0 is now available. Adds support for new devices and new scripting features.
OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1 Preview
Microsoft released the OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1 Preview today. Chris Pratley is a much better source for the intricacies. SP1 includes an API and SP1 will be the new OneNote baseline.
OneNote now has real-time note sharing. It would be great if we were able to discover available documents similar to SubEthaEdit instead of negotiating IP addresses. At least they did not require Passport logons.
You can also take video notes. My favorite feature of OneNote is the ability to synchronize your notes to a point in an audio recording. That ability is now expanded to video.
San Jose Sharks use Tablet PCs on the sideline
Katie Dean of Wired writes about the San Jose Sharks use of Tablet PCs and software by XOS Technologies to follow game plays.
A digital video recorder hooked up to a server records the game and then wirelessly transmits the data to a tablet PC. Hunter can then use a stylus or a remote to mark key moments in the game — like a goal for, goal against, power play or penalty kill — so that he can return to them with a quick click. He can diagram over the video as well
Sony Music RSS
Sony Music has artist RSS feeds for artists such as Beyonce Knowles, Five For Fighting, Jessica Simpson, and Nas.
Gucci iPod case
North Pole soccer
Two nuclear submarines, the HMS Tireless and USS Hampton, surfaced near the North Pole today for a game of soccer.
Pearl Jam video creation with Apple
Pearl Jam creates its own live concert DVDs using Apple software and hardware. Apple profiles Pearl Jam’s content production process.
I don’t know that there would be three Pearl Jam DVDs if not for this type of technology. It allows people to do on their own what they were previously forced to hire from experts.
Conflict Archive on the Internet on Northern Ireland.
The CAIN Web Service provides information and source material on politics, society, and the struggle between Catholics and Protestants in the region since 1968. Sponsored by the University of Ulster, Queen’s University of Belfast, and the Linen Hall Library, among others. (via MetaFilter)