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Tuesday, January 21, 2003 |
Ground zero: Where the buffalo roam?. A new film from "Slacker" director Richard Linklater offers a daring, crackpot vision for the World Trade Center memorial: A 16-acre park full of free-roaming bison. [Salon.com]
10:07:15 PM 
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A hearty Ablogdoesn'tneedaclevername welcome to
Insania Magna: Demented musings about a woman's job loss and the end of a long-term relationship.
8:36:47 PM
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SBC
claims internal links patented
Our website, www.museumtour.com has recently received an patent
infringement notice from SBC Intellectual Property.
The letter suggests that any website which has static, linked information
(top banners, menus, bottom banners) which are displayed while other
sections of the page are displayed as non-static (the area where products
appear on most websites) infringes upon the patents they hold.
They've posted the first four pages of the letter from SBC:
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This is the patent at issue.
3:47:32 PM
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Spycatcher. How to Catch Spies Spying Your Computer January 21, 2003 [Cryptome]
3:00:06 PM
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Web site owner goes to court to force 'troll'
offline, by Chris Seper, Plain Dealer.
GIE Media, a Cleveland company that runs the online
pest-control portal PCT Online, is suing an Arkansas man who the company
says is constantly leaving obnoxious and offensive messages on its Internet
bulletin board and then, after he is banned from the site, sneaking back
using fake names.
12:56:35 PM
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The
Value of Reputation on eBay: A Controlled Experiment, by Paul Resnick,
Richard Zeckhauser, John Swanson, and Kate Lockwood.
Abstract
Many empirical studies assess the effectiveness of reputation mechanisms,
such as eBay’s Feedback Forum. These investigations involve products
ranging from pennies to collector guitars; they vary widely in their
conclusions on how well reputation systems perform. Part of the explanation
for the disparity among prior studies is that they merely collect samples
from the eBay population. Such observational studies significantly
increase the number of other variables that are left uncontrolled. This
makes it difficult to isolate the effects of reputation on auction outcome.
In our main experiment, we worked with an established eBay auctioneer to
sell matched pairs of items -- batches of vintage postcards -- under his
extremely high reputation identity, and under newcomer identities with
little reputation. Our second experiment followed the same format, but
compared sales under newcomer identities with and without negative
feedback. Having controlled the content of the auctions, and the
presentation of item information, we were able to minimize the effects of
variables other than reputation. As expected, the established identity
fared better. The price difference was 7.6% of the selling price.
Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that this amount is reasonable,
given the level of risk that buyers incur. Surprisingly, one or two
negative feedbacks for our new IDs had no price effects, even though these
sellers had few positives.
(thanks, Eszter!)
11:56:28 AM
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Christian's a backdoor man: Fixing up the abandoned storefront. A large amount of my traffic still comes to my old address (http://blogs.salon.com/0001111/) due to bookmarks, blogrolls, and the like. . . . .
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Now, as an experiment, I've set up a new category, for now called 0001111, and have tried to configure the #upstream.xml file so that its output will show up there. If that works, then I'll have opened a backdoor to my old abandoned storefront and can then fiddle with the templates to turn it into more of a catch-all signpost to recent entries and other items of note.
[Christian Crumlish (xian): 0001111]
6:02:18 AM
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