June 30, 2003
NY Times: A Safer System for Home PC's Feels Like Jail to Some Critics.
But by entwining PC software and data in an impenetrable layer of encryption, critics argue, the companies may be destroying the very openness that has been at the heart of computing in the three decades since the PC was introduced.
News.Com: Microsoft's new push in Washington.
They're waving the marketing slogan of "Net neutrality" and warning that the cable companies could start to favor some Web sites over others or even block access entirely. Be skeptical of this flimsy claim. There is no evidence that any company offering cable modem access does this--or, for that matter, ever will.
Useit.Com: Information Foraging: Why Google Makes People Leave Your Site Faster.
Information foraging is the most important concept to emerge from Human-Computer Interaction research since 1993. Developed at Xerox PARC by Stuart Card, Peter Pirolli, and colleagues, information foraging uses the analogy of wild animals gathering food to analyze how humans collect information online.
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