April 26, 2001
NY Times: Punching Holes in Internet Walls.
In six months of operation, SafeWeb has become one of the most popular privacy-protection services (often called anonymizer services), with word about it spreading mostly through e-mail or word of mouth. Its services have become especially popular among Falun Gong adherents in China.
SJ Mercury: Copyright tempest over `The Wind Done Gone' is outrageous.
Dan Gillmor. But the case should never have come to court. That only happened because Congress has twisted tradition and law beyond all recognition, and a book that should have long since entered the public domain remains protected by copyright.
News.Com: IM poised to become instant information tool.
The new buddy won't be real. It will be a "bot" created by New York company ActiveBuddy, which is developing technology that lets popular software for trading short text messages be used to grab information stored on Web sites and computer databases.
eWEEK: Foundation to promote Jabber IM.
Jabber.com and the Jabber open-source project have joined forces to establish the Jabber Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that will work toward developing a Jabber-based open-source Instant Messaging and Presence standard.
MSNBC: Online anthropology.
How’s this for an anthropology course for those who can’t wake up in time for class? “Virtual Communities” at Brandeis University meets three times a week — once offline, once online and once with students sitting at a lab at computers, chatting with another onscreen and off.
Wired News: Watermark Crackers Back Away.
"We, the authors, reached a collective decision not to expose ourselves, our employers, and the conference organizers to litigation at this time," Ed Felten, a computer science professor at Princeton, told a crowd of reporters who gathered in the lobby of the Holiday Inn...
Editor & Publisher: MSNBC.com Appoints Ombudsman.
Fisher was looking forward to spending quiet days at home as part of his retirement after working as editor in chief at MSN's MoneyCentral for several years. Instead he's putting retirement on hold to become MSNBC.com's ombudsman, a first for online news sites.
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