November 25, 2003
WIRED: Intel's Tiny Hope for the Future.
Intel imagines the day when every assembly line, soybean field, and nursing home on the planet will be peppered with motes, prodding factory foremen to replace faulty machines, farmers to water fields, and nurses to check on something unusual in room E214.
IBM DeveloperWorks: The importance of documentation.
As documentation decreases in quality, users stop turning to it. As users stop turning to it, companies stop trying to maintain it -- why bother, if the users won't read it? This line of reasoning is dooming the future of documentation to failure. Documentation is important and needs to be taken seriously.
InfoWorld: Senate approves spam bill, goes back to House.
The House is expected to schedule a final vote on the bill Dec. 2, after which the bill would go to President Bush to be signed into law. The House voted 392-5 Saturday to approve its pumped-up version of CAN-SPAM, which originally passed the Senate in October.
InfoWorld: Preserving the Internet's policy-neutral core.
Jon Udell. In August 2002, the RIAA sued a group of U.S.-based Internet service providers, seeking to block access to a music-copying site in China. The suit was dropped when the offending site was shut down, but the event was widely regarded as a pivotal moment.
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