March 17, 2001
Glenn Fleishman: Gilmore and Censorship.
I'm sick and tired of people crying censorship when a business enforces contractual rights that happen to involve data flowing. Gilmore's desire to run an open relay is technically pointless and unsophisticated, and a ridiculous necessity in this day and age...
ZDNN: The prerogatives of innovation.
Bob Frankston. Pundits, who tell us they know better and can point to one or two examples of things that should be better, admonish those of us who create products for a living. After all, why do we make people use keyboards when they can just talk to their computers.
NY Times: Web Site Ads, Holding Sway, Start to Blare.
Now, as even the biggest Internet sites struggle with a sharp decline in ad revenue, sites are letting their remaining advertisers occupy a much larger portion of their pages, as well as create ads that move, make noise and otherwise do whatever it takes to attract attention.
eWeek: Gates to shed more light on Microsoft's TabletPC.
Sources close to the company said Gates will offer considerable detail on his plans for the TabletPC, and how it slots into Microsoft's vision going forward, in his March 26 keynote address at the Anaheim, Calif., conference, which looks at the future of computing.
ZDNN: Digital TV snowed in by 'Napster factor'.
Cable and satellite companies have a proposal in place with content providers that would allow severe restrictions to be placed on the recording of digital programming. Besides setting copy limits, the proposal requires cable operators and broadcasters to "down resolution" of specified digital programming...
Wired News: Publish, Perish or Pay Up?
Now, scholars are attempting to reclaim control by creating alternatives to leading commercial publications that have triggered this "journal crisis." A new, nonprofit, online venture, The Electronic Society for Social Scientists, is offering journals that are at least 50 percent cheaper...
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