Cyrus Farivar

The next generation is just around the corner. Patrick Scoble, Robert Scoble’s son, is now podcasting as well, as a “punishment” for listening to the Dawn and Drew Show as an 11-year-old. Some punishment. Kid admitted that he downloads all the ones with the EXPLICIT tag on them. Smart kid. “I did know about podcasting — but it just sounded lame, because you did it.” MY SON’S FIRST PODCAST : SOMETHING INAPPROPRIATE

So exactly what are “startups championing RSS”? Isn’t that a bit like championing TCP/IP, or HTML? Someone please show me what exactly a company based around RSS is? Hoping to catch the next wave on the Internet, a group of investors has set up a venture capital fund focused on RSS, the technology that allows users to pull selected content from the Web. Based in Cambridge, Mass., RSS Investors, which was formed last week, seeks to raise $100 million to…

Is there anyone who considers what Pew researches to be news? I mean, I feel like all they do is confirm what most people can pretty much expect exists out in the online sphere. Their next study is going to talk about how people are annoyed with the imperfections of VoIP. Or wait, that will come in about two years. NEW YORK — Internet users worried about spyware and adware are shunning specific Web sites, avoiding file-sharing networks, even switching…

I just got this on my voice mail. “This is the nicest phone call you’re going to get asking you to remove your blog from the Internet.” I’m guessing this has to do with the whole Greenlighter fiasco, which came to a conclusion last night.

NYT: WASHINGTON, July 6 – A federal judge today ordered Judith Miller of The New York Times to be jailed immediately after she again refused to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a covert C.I.A. operative. Matthew Cooper of Time magazine explaining his decision today to testify about his confidential source, thus avoiding jail. Another reporter who had been facing jail time on the same matter, Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, agreed today to…

Morgan Freeman is providing his traditional folk wisdom to yet another white guy, but this time it’s Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Why has it taken so long for someone to figure out how sell/stream films online? Argh. Wait, wait, they’ve built a “model digital home” in LA? This is like Microsoft telling people that for Longhorn that they’re going to need 2 GHz and half a gig of VRAM just to run the GUI. Revelations and Intel have been working…

Clearly these execs haven’t spent enough time on college campuses over the last seven years. The day that students stop illegally downloading will be the day that frats stop having keggers. This is what happens when you fuel insomniac students with loads of bandwidth. Campuses were “shrinking the [available] bandwidth on the network to discourage” illegal downloading, says John Mullen, vice president of Dell’s higher education business. He says schools want a way to minimize the impact of music downloads…

I always wonder what it must be like to be worth $21 billion. I wonder what Paul Allen’s agenda must be like: 8 am: Wake up. Dive into Duck Tales-style pool of coins for refreshing swim. 9 am: Take a refreshing shower, dry off with towel sewn from $100 bills. 10 am: Check email. 10:30 am: Bathroom break, use toilet paper made from $50 bills. 11:00 am: Ponder what museum should start next. 12:00 pm: Lunch, followed by an ice…

Just on the heels of their deal with IBM (Oh hello, $850 mil settlement!), that giant sucking sound that BillG hears is his army of lawyers descending on San Francisco. I wonder if MSFT’s legal team has a permanent office down in these parts? Kaplan, 53, who was an early pioneer in software retailing and online auctions as well as pen computing, claims Microsoft misappropriated Go’s technology and operated a secret “kill Go” campaign starting in the late 1980s. Microsoft,…

Greenlighter.org RIP July 2, 2005 – July 6, 2005 Fellas, it’s been fun. Really.