Can my real friends please disagree?
11:06:13 PM   []

• It will be very easy for them to differentiate their product offering:
  • Webservices - Allow people to develop 3rd party apps
  • Associate program - Allow people who develop 3rd party apps to profit from their work
  • Reviews - Allow people to review music
  • Collaborative filtering - None of the services yet have a real collaborative filtering engine
• Wishlist - Allow friends and family to buy you digital music not just plastic
• In the future they can leverage their digital music experience to deliever digital movies.

And the celebrity playlist thing in iTMS is way fun.
10:36:30 PM   []

At the top of the list is ensuring all the labs have identical keyboards because some labs, like the 2nd floor, have awful keyboards that according to Natalie 'make you want to die'. Keyboards are not expensive.
10:09:09 PM   []

This weblog is my venue/soapbox for pointing out everything that bothers me with the world. Once I am out of school I fully intend on fixing everything that bothers me. That's right, I'm going to start my own bank, communications company and donate sufficient money to a university so that they can do things right.
3:10:32 PM   []

4. All I plan to do is ask a couple of people I know a few simple questions for my thesis. Does require ethics review and clearance?

All research involving humans as sources of data requires prior ethics review and clearance through the ORE. Participation in all research involves some level of risk to participants. The ethics review process is intended to ensure that each proposed study meets the requirements for ethical research as described in the Guidelines and the Tri-Council Policy Statement, as well as to provide the necessary protections for research participants.

The experience of being interviewed can be stressful for some individuals. Persons who participate in a research project of a friend must be afforded the same assurances and protections as any other research participant. In fact, the ethics review process is particularly important in this scenario given the relationship between researcher and participants. It ensures that the participants are adequately informed and that they understand that their involvement is voluntary and that they can withdraw from the study at any time.

No wonder there are no academic articles about new tech subjects! You have to wad through so much red tape.
3:09:48 PM   []

• What are the benefits of weblogs for corporations?
• What are the drawbacks of weblogs for corporations?
• How can you motivate employees to contribute to weblogs?
• How can you demonstrate the value of weblogging? i.e. that it is not a waste of employees’ time.
• How do weblogs foster culture within an organization?
• Assuming an organization has a large number of weblogs, how do you extract the relevant and valuable information from them?
• Do you have any suggestions for further sources? (See http://tomato.cgcsys.net:8080/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=CS480Asn2 for our current list and feel free to edit).

3:05:37 PM   []

• She's Making A List. The whole list thing is bizarre.
• Survey says . . . we hate our own school. Shame on Imprint for not damning the whole University Report Card sham. They should have had an Act Sci/Stat major write an article about how 26,000 students can be wrong!
• Think Before You Drink. Featuring Ben I-can't-believe-he's-not-underage Redman. And just who is that mysterious 'ALW'?

  ...who recounted his story on a UW student's Web log, mattgoyer.com.

• False alarm in MC building messes up math midterm. The school needs to address this issue either with those fire alarm dyes or video cameras.
• Moving In and Shelling Out. I never realized she was the editor. Her columns seem a little flakey. Anyhow, buy a cellphone.
• The ol’ turkey-dump. Is it me or did Michelle just un-intentionally use the same subject material as Leah McLaren's most recent article, A time to give thanks -- and dump high-school sweethearts?
• Life with the girls of Waterloo. I betcha this article generates some nasty letters to the editor next week:

  Taking RideSafe home is definitely an instant icebreaker to talk with other students.

• I don't get the comic, April and May

2:04:21 PM   []