Saturday, May 08, 2004

Fun in Following the Money. An inside look at the economy in the Star Wars Galaxies MMORPG shows that virtual money doesn't quite work like real money, and fun has a lot to do with it. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News] 7:32:24 AM    comment []

Part-Timers at N.Y.U. Win Contract, Their First. New York University has agreed to provide health benefits, pension contributions and wage increases to its unionized part-time faculty members. By Karen W. Arenson. [New York Times: Education] 7:31:55 AM    comment []

Liberty, Technology, Duty: Where Peace Overlaps War. In several new books, the intellectual property debate comes to resemble the bitter struggles that are afoot in the wider world. By Edward Rothstein. [New York Times: Business] 7:31:32 AM    comment []

Those Sexy Iranians. Iran's baby boomers are transforming their country, just as baby boomers in the West changed America and Europe. By Nicholas D. Kristof. [New York Times: Opinion] 7:31:00 AM    comment []

Academics Patent P2P Spoofing. Two computer scientists get a patent on a technique that floods peer-to-peer networks with spoofed files. They hope to sell it to content owners. Could companies that already spoof files be in violation of the patent? By Katie Dean. [Wired News] 7:30:48 AM    comment []

False Objectivity in Science Reporting. Chris Mooney explains how journalists contribute to scientific ignorance. Sometimes there aren't two sides to an issue, unless you count... [The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates] 7:29:24 AM    comment []

Digital Trail. John Battelle has inspirational entry on the digital trail we leave behind on Internet. Everything is tracked, recorded and stored for eternity. This is an important understanding, which leads to several questions. One of which is of course privacy. In my mind privacy is a lost case. It is impossible to keep your data private (didn't Scott Mc'Nealy of Sun Microsystems say something similar?). And the comments... [Blueblog] 7:28:58 AM    comment []