Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab

Some quick thoughts after a quick scan of shared feeds from a studio in New York:

NBC’s decision to dump iTunes will have the same success Times Select did, by proving that fighting RSS is like quitting caffeine. The headache goes away when you go back to doing what you did before you stopped doing it. DRM for a week on Windows is a massive commercial for anything but.

The iPhone has effectively replaced my laptop for much of my working day. The extent to which I can create the necessary metadata to do my various jobs determines what applications I use.

I’ve noticed the business value of emergent projects has a direct correlation to the simplicity and balance of the contract between sharing parties. It’s not the open source model of recent history but rather an evolution where age and passion intersect. I’m seeing so much of what I’ve worked toward from 30 years and 30 months ago intersect in recent weeks, and am finding it surprising how few historical comparables of this renaissance come immediately to mind. It’s a heady confluence of patience, resolve, and roadwork. Humor has its usual role, but not so much a catalyst as a grace note in the foundation of the work.

The notion that music means less than it once did is laughably false. Something has changed, yes, and what’s even funnier is how quickly it can change back.

Thursday, September 20th, 2007 at 10:13 pm.
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