March 5, 2001
Darwin: Get Over It!
David Weinberger. Now, of course, it's all different. You get your information electronically, not on glossy paper. You hunt it down yourself, rather than waiting for it to be delivered to you. But the biggest change is deeper than that: The Web has broken the corporate monopoly on information.
SJ Mercury: Hollywood putting the squeeze on consumers.
Dan Gillmor. In the name of preventing piracy, the entertainment moguls are treating every customer like a thief. They are herding us all into a pay-per-view system where we have no rights at all to use the material we buy as we see fit.
Dylan Tweney: The real Slim Shady.
The fact is, Napster's just a symptom of a larger issue: online copying. Whether it's Napster, Gnutella, or what have you, there will always be some technology giving copyright lawyers fits, because like it or not, the Internet is all about copying stuff.
Darwin: Creative Tension.
As you will learn below, some leading lights of the Web development world question whether his advocacy has given usability more prominence than it deserves. Should it really be the driving force in Web design? While usability disciples abound, a lot of designers say no.
ZDNN: AOL sides with anonymous posters.
AOL argues that the legal threshold for these lawsuits and for unmasking the identities of the posters who are being sued should be raised to protect their First Amendment rights. The company made its point in a friend-of-the-court brief filed last Monday in a so-called cybersmear case...
NY Times: Companies in No Hurry to Buy Over the Internet.
Moreover, purchasing managers are reluctant to learn how to use the various intranet and Internet sites peddling everything from manufacturing supplies to printer cartridges, and they do not necessarily trust those sites to deliver critically important goods on time and at the right quality.
Interactive Week: Fixed Wireless Offers Alternative.
In lands that cable or fiber forgot, or where installing state-of-the-art broadband infrastructure might prove prohibitively costly or time-consuming, fixed wireless is increasingly the solution of choice for telecommunications companies worldwide.
digitalMASS: Speed Demon.
The Broadband2Wireless service itself isn't designed for cars; it's targeted to home offices and small businesses where broadband via cable modem isn't available, and where DSL either isn't an option or people are fed up with the companies that provide it.
NY Times: Beyond Hypertext: Novels With Interactive Animation.
The last traditional book Erik Loyer read was "Cosmicomics," a short-story collection by Italo Calvino. It will not be the last book he reads, he said, but for publishing his own literary efforts, Mr. Loyer has forsaken the printed page for the computer screen.
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