Wednesday, February 19, 2003

Big blang. This is amazing. More from Joi, Dave and Veer, who developed it. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 9:32:25 PM    comment []

Mary Jo: Microsoft Tests the Blogging-Tool Waters. [Scripting News] 9:31:08 PM    comment []

Salon Marks Seventh Year On Its Deathbed - Subscribe Today!. Plastic::Media::E-commerce: "Subscription will be the new business model at Salon from now on." Readers must agree to pay a subscription fee, or settle for clicking through popup ads. TANSTAAFL? NIMBY! [Plastic: Most Recent] 9:30:24 PM    comment []

Online Journalism and Salon. I've been reading Salon since it started out. I sent my money when they went to a paid-subscription model for... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 9:26:33 PM    comment []

Group to field spam-filter complaints, by Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com. A group of e-mail marketers on Tuesday set up an Internet forum for people to air grievances about spam filters--which can swallow legitimate messages along with the targeted commercial come-ons. The Email Service Providers Coalition--a group whose members are responsible for delivering billions of commercial messages to consumers--designed a forum for people to report missing e-mail that is presumably caught in spam traps, or what are called "false positives." The coalition said it devised the community--called I_Did_Not_Get_My_Email on Yahoo Groups--as a way to help software companies and anti-spam fighters build junk-mail filters that do not hold legitimate e-mail hostage. Cough, cough. Glad they're looking out for my interests. Not. 2:23:28 PM    comment []

Real boss tackles online piracy, by Alfred Hermida, BBC News Online. The online piracy of songs and films can be stopped but just shutting down illegal file-sharing services is not enough, says Rob Glaser, boss of Real Networks. The head of the digital media software company says the entertainment industry needs to provide people with an alternative to using file-sharing services like Kazaa. 12:23:34 PM    comment []

Deadline: Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works (DMCA Comments). 12:23:30 PM    comment []

Tunisia Arrests 20 for Browsing Islamist Web Sites (Reuters). 12:23:23 PM    comment []

Headline understates what's interesting here, I think, which is corporate espionage. Even Security Firms at Risk for Break- Ins, by Dennis Fisher, eWeek. On Jan. 20, the security engineers at Addamark Technologies Inc. noticed the problem immediately: Someone had accessed a confidential, password-protected document on the company's Web server that contained technical product details. After studying the traffic logs more carefully, San Francisco-based Addamark officials discovered it was no random hack. The intrusion had come from a competitor, ArcSight Inc. . . . Oddly, ArcSight officials do not dispute that one of the company's employees viewed the file. Nor do they deny having the restricted user ID and password. Instead, they say that they obtained the authentication data through legitimate means. Furthermore, they say they don't believe they did anything wrong in using it. . . . We looked at a document in the public domain. It's not some protected preserve with lots of protected content, said Larry Lunetta, vice president of marketing at ArcSight, a Sunnyvale, Calif., provider of security software. It's simply a screen that asked for a user name and password. The employee didn't feel like he did anything illicit. 12:23:15 PM    comment []

xian: I get it. We've recently started an independent blog conference on the Well, and Salon blogger Bruce Umbaugh reminded me of a klog-related epiphany I wrote about in an entry back in August called I get it. At time I asked people to link to it as "xian gets it" but while I was correcting the permalink and a few other links in the article (I left the slightly sloppy draft as is), this time I changed the text to request that anyone linking to the article use the entry's actual title, "I get it." This seems like a much more interesting and valuable phrase to relate to (I imagine the people searching for I get it would be an interesting demographic to be reaching) than some arbitrary assertion about me, with my negative Q rating and all. Having changed the entry and added an update note at the end, I figured I out to seed the new link. Today Google, tomorrow the world! [Radio Free Blogistan] 7:13:16 AM    comment []

Scott on Rumors of our demise.... 7:10:25 AM    comment []

Justifying a Liberal Arts Education in Hard Times. James O. Freedman, the retired president of Dartmouth College, makes the case for a liberal arts education in his new book. By Sara Rimer. [New York Times: Education] 7:05:23 AM    comment []

Town loves its adopted Jersey girl, by Jim Nolan, Philadelphia Daily News. Lambertville - population 3,856 - is a quaint antiques-and-eats town across the Delaware River from New Hope, Bucks County. Residents said they're glued to the tube each Monday night to see if their heroine, who moved to New Jersey after high school, survives another week. Absolutely, she's the reason I watch the show, said Lambertville Mayor David DelVecchio, who promised that if she wins he'll issue a proclamation declaring it "Zora Andrich Day." 7:01:02 AM    comment []

U.S. global piracy losses estimated at $9.2 billion: IIPA releases report, anti-piracy recommendations, by David Legard, InfoWorld. 4:22:02 AM    comment []

On t'other blog a year ago: Powerful people will take advantage of their muscle unless: Peer grading is not only Constitutional, it may have educational value Giving Away Cash Isn't Easy if our forebears came to understand that something was terribly wrong with the sharp guys, so do we. Online MBA program suspended by SUNY Buffalo Cable Tv Lobby, Including Comcast, Tells Fcc: Give Us A "Closed" Broadband 'net District Court judges innocent in visiting sex sites, says Minister All hail .Net! Q & A with Laura Gurak Colleges Start to Count Work With Technology in Tenure Decisions underground railroad for Web information that may be censored by some nations not finished Supreme Court to Weigh in On Copyright Laws Pirates Run the Record Companies Ozzy Osbourne launches own TV show Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad Hijacking the Brain Circuits With a Nickel Slot Machine Cheney Defends 'Axis of Evil' Label 4:21:53 AM    comment []