February 22, 2001
LA Times: Anti-Piracy Laws Rob Consumers of Rights.
This is a disaster waiting to happen. In its attempt to eradicate piracy, the government is making it impossible for consumers to engage in lawful behavior. It's like arguing that automobiles should be banned because bank robbers use them for getaways.
Industry Standard: Don't Read Aloud This Version of Alice in Wonderland.
However, the inspired nonsense in this tale did not spring from the mind of Lewis Carroll. Instead, it arose either from the greed and reflexive possessiveness of e-book publishers or, more likely, from the confusion and metaphoric excesses of an esteemed cyberlaw professor: Lawrence Lessig.
FEED Magazine: Gift for the Gab.
Clay Shirky. As anyone who has asked Jeeves knows, computerized grasp of human language is a long way off, and attempts to design a simple language for predator agents has similarly failed. Giles and Jim follwed a much more radical approach: They allowed the agents to evolve their own language.
LA Times: Giving Consumers What They Want Before They Know They Want It.
Several times each week for the last eight months, RealNetworks has left a little gift on some of its customers' computers. The songs go to users of RealJukebox who signed up for its automatic music delivery service, RealNetworks' experiment with "push" technology.
hypergene: Amazoning The News.
Where are the stories that are being told in a new way appropriate to this medium? In my opinion, the stories that are done in the best, the most web-specific way, are not on the New York Times site or Salon or Washingtonpost.com. The best job of story telling is being done by ... Amazon.
MSNBC: The secret selling of ‘Whois’.
It’s tough to keep a secret in Washington, but that’s exactly what the folks at VeriSign did, until now. Their dirty little secret is blown: For about a year they’ve been selling the personal information attached to Internet domain names to anyone with a checkbook and a hankering to exploit this lucrative data mine.
NY Times: The Web, Without Wires, Wherever.
With a laptop computer equipped with a wireless card, anyone within a few hundred feet or so of one of these access points, or hot spots, can tap into a wireless network that is in turn connected to the Internet via a broadband connection.
ZDNN: Lasers beat bandwidth bottleneck.
Until recently the technology has been relegated to white board theories, research and development labs and trial projects. Now start-ups Terabeam and FSONA Communications are set to announce for the first time the commercial availability of their products and services within the next week.
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