WiFi With A View

Here's an update from the Little River Inn (where my Dad props up the bar and helps innkeep): "Wireless Internet now available in all our rooms!" Sweet. If you hurry, you can even catch tonight's debut of the Mendocino Film Festival; the Inn is one of the venues.

Singular Insight

Here's Mike Treder on the Singularity Summit: "Seemingly unacceptable change is what happens while we're busy doing other things." (Have you ever noticed how sometimes those ice cubes never even make it to the glass?) [Via David Maizenberg]

Infotrolling Better Than Ever

There's an extraordinary amount of good information and commentary available concerning Monday's important patent decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in eBay v. MercExchange (PDF); you might start with the roundup at Computerworld's IT Blogwatch, then pop over to Technorati, then Google News, IceRocket's blog search, Google's blog search, Feedster...

(Just steer clear of search that's not targeting blogs, feeds, or news, because even two days after the decision the top results are still mired in 2005.)

The Other Innovator's Dilemma

Fred von Lohmann on the record labels v. XM: "Inducement isn't just for pirates anymore." (More from the Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC).) [Update:] And from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).

Strange Bitfellows

Warner Brothers and BitTorrent.

The Wall Street Journal thinks it's a "a significant change in strategy," which may be so but still, Kevin Rose explains why it's likely to be a non-starter.