More Weekend Reading

Posted on July 29, 2000 by Dan Gillmor

  • Clay Shirky: Blurring the Lines (Business 2.0). With Napster, you register a name for your PC and every time you connect, it makes your current IP address an alias to that name, instead of the other way around. This inversion makes it trivially easy to host content on a home PC, which destroys the asymmetry of “end users consume but can’t provide.”
  • Floyd Norris: Piling On Amazon’s Stock, After the Fact (New York Times). Even in this weird investment age, it is hard to believe that one equity analyst, forget the throng, would turn tail on a stock because its revenues came in at $578 million rather than $585 million — a difference of 1 percent. What scared the analysts — just a guess — was Amazon’s falling stock.
  • Ed Foster: Mixing B2b Dot-coms and UCITA Will Make for a Volatile Combination (Infoworld). Will dot-coms be held responsible for damages caused by every stray bug? Read Ed’s column and weep.

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