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Huggable Urns. ‘Nuff said.

I’m still taking this in. Google hires Alexander Limi (one of the founders of Plone and the current project lead). He says that he will be able to spend more time on the project working at Google than he does currently at Plone Solutions, which sounds positive, but any risk to his involvement is likely to be a bad thing. My more nervous side feels a little worried, but I’m guessing I shouldn’t be.

“You cannot keep going back to the same theatres,” he said. “I don’t want the tax man to put me in a position where my career looks as if it is failing, because it isn’t.”

Google for first images from new cameras. A brief first pass would suggest that Canon owners have the best eye….

At first glance this looks like a good idea:

Universal Music Group is to bring no-frills CDs to the UK in a bid to match the iTunes Music Store’s price point. The scheme targets old, back-catalogue releases rather than new or recent titles.

Surely this is simply a fancy remarketing of the classic mid-price format that we’ve been used to for years? If they can bring the price down along the way that would be nice too, but let’s not forget that if you really want no frills content you have allofmp3. Now *that* is no frills, no packaging and no DRM.

I guess it’s worth pointing out that I’ve started using allofmp3 heavily. I can’t help it. If I hear a track that I like (Benzie Box by Danger Doom, for example; now that is a bassline) I can get the entire album for 70p. 99p per song? With DRM? Er. No ta.

BPI gets go ahead to sue allofmp3.com

I do hope they lose.

Edit: On reflection it seems clear that a) they will lose and b) even if they won it would be impossible to uphold. The only real question therefore is how much of allofmp3′s resources can they tie up, and will it be enough to do any damage?

Ooops. freedb goes for a burton because of intra-team tensions. Quite what follows I don’t know, but there may be weirdness ahead for your favourite CD ripper…