February 12, 2001
FEED Magazine: Disappearing Act.
Clay Shirky. This concentrates a huge amount of power in the hands of Michael Powell, the FCC's new chief. And if Powell goes through with even half of what he's been promising in his speeches, the FCC under his tenure will catalyze the greatest change in our media landscape since the Depression.
Salon: Napster: Hanging by a thread.
Napster is still alive -- but just barely. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the recording industry on virtually every point of law at issue: Napster users are infringing on recording industry copyrights, and a preliminary injunction shutting down Napster is not just "warranted, but required."
Mappa.Mundi Magazine: World Wide Wunderkammer.
In their new project, WonderWalker: A Global Online Wunderkammer, Walczak and Wattenberg apply this old metaphor to the Internet. The results are fascinating. WonderWalker is a visual map of icons. People create icons and lay those icons in a place that is appropriate on the map.
LA Times: Cyberspace Taking the 'Sneak' Out of Sneak Previews.
Knowles insists he hasn't been "co-opted" by these perks and he says his success has recently enabled him to begin paying his own way to premieres and filming locations. But many in Hollywood think his objectivity has been compromised.
NY Times: Chief Privacy Officers Forge Evolving Corporate Roles.
But those who have grown cynical watching business fads come and go — remember the vice president for total quality management or the chief knowledge officer? — can be forgiven for wondering whether the chief privacy officer is corporate America's executive flavor of the month.
Industry Standard: Just the Text, Ma'am.
So an impatient Wolff took it upon himself to do what Salon's staff couldn't seem to: make the site quick and easy to use. In less than an hour, the 35-year-old New York Web developer wrote a program that strips out Salon's tables, ads and graphics and leaves just the raw text.
Wired News: Google Buys Deja Archive.
Search Engine Google has acquired one of the Web's most venerated resources, Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service, and plans to build a new service incorporating its search technology. The collection contains more than 500 million Usenet newsgroups messages dates back to 1995.
Interactive Week: ICANN Tethered.
But three years later - and six months after the U.S. aimed to cut loose its control of the group - the Department of Commerce maintains oversight of both ICANN and what was supposed to be its prize: the Internet's "A" root server, the database that makes up the Internet's domain name system.
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