Saturday, December 07, 2002

Baghdad Delivers Weapons Data to U.N. [Washington Post: Front Page] 11:53:24 PM    comment []

Two from bOing bOing: Will compulsory licenses save P2P? EFF comments on the Broadcast Flag 3:46:44 PM    comment []

New doings at the epistolery blog, including a groovy photo. 9:09:58 AM    comment []

Legislative Logrolling - Katherine Harris Given House Leadership Role. Plastic::Politics::Politics:Republicans: A spokesperson for House Republican Whip Elect Roy Blunt from Missouri, said that Harris was chosen due to her leadership in the past, the campaign she conducted for her house seat, and her willingness to work on difficult issues. And, one would imag [Plastic: Most Recent] 9:05:06 AM    comment []

The Great Stanford Buffy Population Equilibrium Study [Slashdot] You know what the best part of this is? Somebody's really going to get a graduate degree thanks to this work. [Andrew Bayer Is Dreaming of China] 9:04:11 AM    comment []

Video May Kill Satellite's Star. Cable executives smack their lips over the potential of video on demand: It includes the chance to take back market share from satellite television services and eat into video rental stores' business. Dustin Goot reports from Anaheim. [Wired News] Oh, man. Video on Demand has been the Holy Grail for next-generation cable services for -- what? -- ten years? Fifteen? Video on Demand could be trumped readily by more technically feasible near-demand services, that's been clear to me for some time. The programmers (in the TV sense) don't know enough tech. 9:03:20 AM    comment []

DVD hacker on trial in Norway on Monday [bOing bOing] 8:53:53 AM    comment []

Last week there was a meeting at Clay Shirky's in NY to talk about social software, whatever that is. By coincidence I was in NY, for other reasons. There were at least a few bloggers at Clay's meeting. Why is no one is talking about it? [Scripting News] I blinked Steve Johnson's account and commented on Monday. Guess Dave doesn't read me . . . :) [UPDATE: Dave updated his remarks since that fell in my news spool. He's got some more links about the event and discussion of it. I'm not feeling bad about it, though. 8:35:46 AM    comment []