April 9, 2000
SJ Mercury: Telecom for the masses.
Dan Gillmor. Few government bureaucracies have played such a pivotal role as the agency Kennard leads. For better or worse, FCC decisions and rules have outsized impacts on the future of telecommunications, which is increasingly central to our economy and culture.
Industry Standard: The Code Is the Law.
Lawrence Lessig. The future of Net regulation will be more West Coast Code. More and more, those with interests to protect (copyright holders, for example) or interests to exploit (feeders on personal data) will use code writers of Silicon Valley rather than Congress to secure their interests.
Seattle Times: Mike Eisenberg teaches UW's doctors of data overload how to recognize what's valuable.
What's happened in Seattle is Mike Eisenberg. In two years, he's turned the UW's School of Library and Information Science into one of the most important departments on campus. Almost shelved from neglect, this program - and its new umbrella, The Information School - someday could be the best in the world.
News.Com: Tellme starts talking with new Web service.
Tellme Networks tomorrow will announce a service that lets consumers dial a toll-free phone number and use spoken commands to connect with or find restaurants, airline information, news, weather conditions, and stock quotes.
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