Saturday, June 07, 2003

Good Experience: Spam is not a problem. My contention is that more technology, or more laws, may solve the problem in the end, but for now it's up to each individual user to make a small investment of time and effort to manage their e-mail on their own. [Tomalak's Realm] 3:30:19 PM    comment []

Ghana trumps mighty Microsoft. By Briony Hale, BBC News Online. The tale of Soft and Microsoft is the tale of David and Goliath. . . . We missed the first boat when industrialisation passed us by.... we can't miss this boat, otherwise Africa will have missed the boat altogether. 1:04:24 PM    comment []

Comment on the Department of Education's third National Education Technology Plan. See also the USDE press release. 12:03:25 PM    comment []

Downloading Music Over the Internet Without Feeling Like a Criminal. The recording industry keeps shooting itself in the foot by alienating its base audience and acting like its main job was law enforcement instead of selling music. By Verlyn Klinkenborg. [New York Times: Opinion] 10:05:07 AM    comment []

As anticipated in this space yesterday: Slammer: What Really Happened?. The Slammer virus was ruthless and quick in its attack, spreading hundreds of times faster than the Code Red virus or Nimda worm. Yet the onslaught started with a single killer packet. By Paul Boutin from Wired magazine. [Wired News] 10:03:10 AM    comment []

The crib sheet for my talk on Monday. It's still very incomplete and quite rough. [Scripting News] 10:01:30 AM    comment []

George Ziemann: Thomas Edison, Intellectual Property and the Recording Industry. [Scripting News] 10:00:57 AM    comment []

A spectrum of questions. Will the republican-led congress vote with The People for more open and free common spectrum to support more invention and entrepreneurship, as we're seeing with wi-fi today, or will it vote with the big boys and auction the spectrum off to the highest big boy bidders? [The Doc Searls Weblog] Darned good question. 9:59:21 AM    comment []

Metallica's MP3 Conversion, by Mike Musgrove, Washington Post. What a difference a few years make: Heavy-metal band Metallica once waged a high-profile legal campaign against the online service Napster, claiming it was cheating artists by allowing people to swap songs free. Now it is Metallica putting free material on the Web and Napster that is being retooled to become a for-pay service. Today, the band is kicking off an experiment to try to prove it isn't afraid of the digital era. Fans who purchase its new CD, "St. Anger," will find an access code tucked inside the case allowing them to go online and download live recordings and other content not available elsewhere. 3:01:29 AM    comment []