Monday, April 05, 2004

Which NYT columnist are you? [Salon.com] 10:10:52 PM    comment []

The Altered Human Is Already Here. More people shift to the pill-taking life every year, a social change on the same order as the advent of computers, but one that is taking place inside the human body. By James Gorman. [New York Times: Science] 10:10:37 PM    comment []

APA Central. According to this page the APA Central is scheduled to be held in Chicago the next three years. I don't mind having a constant venue - if I had my way the Eastern, Pacific and Central conferences would always be held in Miami, San Francisco and New Orleans - but it does seem to be a change of policy. [Thoughts Arguments and Rants] 10:08:39 PM    comment []

Jon Johansen's iTunes-cracking code showed up in FAAD and PlayFair. A while back someone figured out how to make M4Ps work with SlimServer; it's easy since all the decoding is done on the server anyway. [Hack the Planet] 10:05:28 PM    comment []

In spite of all we say, we're still taking over. I'm hearing Dr. Weinberger commenting on NPR right now. I tuned to NPR after hearing Kos wrapping as a guest on Majority Report, the Janeane Garofalo program on Air America. He gives a hard time to digital rights management, trusted computing and digital identity, among other things. One line I had time to write down... Trusted computing gives companies more control over your machine than you have. Well done. Here's a link to the commentary's text summary. I can't figure how to link to the audio. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 10:05:12 PM    comment []

Two by way of BNA News: NASA RELEASES SEVERAL PROJECTS AS OPEN SOURCE -- BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report reports that NASA has become the first US agency to release several internal software projects as open source. Certification from the Open Source Initiative is expected within weeks. original doc here or via Tiny url NET JURISDICTION STUDY FINDS US - EU DIVIDE My regular Toronto Star Law Bytes column highlights the results of an ABA/ICC global Internet jurisdiction study released over the weekend. The survey of nearly 300 companies in 45 different countries found that U.S. companies were far more concerned and pessimistic about Internet jurisdiction risk than European and Asian companies. It also found that an "Internet jurisdiction risk toolkit" is emerging where companies target low risk jurisdictions and take steps to avoid doing business in perceived high risk jurisdictions. Study Column (Toronto Star) 3:23:07 PM    comment []

Virtual Map wins copyright case against NTUC Income, By Chan Hwa Loon, Channel NewsAsia. Virtual Map claims that NTUC Income copied nine of its maps in 2002 without its permission or licence. NTUC Income had admitted to copying the maps, but disputed that Virtual Map owned the copyright. 1:22:48 PM    comment []

Free Culture distributed audiobook jukebox. Here's a Web-based jukebox containing streaming MP3s of various bloggers reading Lessig's Free Culture. (thanks, Cory, Lessig, Meerkat, [Ted!) 7:26:26 AM    comment []

A Heretical View of File Sharing. What if the industry is wrong, and file sharing is not hurting record sales? A new report suggests just that. By John Schwartz. [New York Times: Technology] 7:19:34 AM    comment []

Heath Row's WTF-con transcripts Heath Row's flying fingers have produced an astonishing near-transcript of the proceedings at David Isenberg's WTF? conference, wherein tech, telco and policy wonks are having a hell of a chin-wag: The question I have is if this is the end of politics as we know it, or are we just being fooled by the flash and dash of MoveOn, Meetup, the blogosphere, self publishers, and the thing that got everybody in mu worlds attention, a presidential campaign that broke all sorts of records in raising money from small donors? Are we just seeing power and voice just as it ever was? There are two key features in our political situation. The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is. That's absolutely right. Organized money, capital, is what organizes campaigns, determines who can campaign, and what policy gets discussed. What we need to remember is that organized people matters too. Link (Thanks, Heath!) [bOing bOing] 7:17:17 AM    comment []

GAO Says Army on Road to Ruin. An ambitious $92 billion reshaping of the Army appears to be in serious trouble, according to the General Accounting Office. Even worse, the Army might have known it from the start. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News] 7:14:24 AM    comment []

Frontier 9.0.1b1: "This release addresses numerous bugs in the initial setup process, includes an updated Themes set, and introduces enhanced Manila hosting features, which make it easy to host a diverse set of Manila site communities." [Scripting News] 6:54:23 AM    comment []