Sunday, May 07, 2006

Friday, May 19, 2006, at Webster University's Old Post Office Campus, the College of Arts & Sciences and the Academy of Science-St. Louis present Science Leadership: Patent and Trademark Law for a New Age A full-day conference featuring experts from the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Jim Dwyer, Director, USPTO John Calvert, Supervisory Patent Examiner, USPTO Yvonne Eyler, Supervisory Patent Examiner, USPTO  To register and learn more about this event, visit the Web site. (Some sessions qualify for CLE credit. Conference cost depends on the sessions you wish to attend.) The conference will also include a lunch panel discussion Science Leadership: Insight from Patent Attorneys: A panel of the area's outstanding patent and trademark attorneys will offer a St. Louis regional perspective on today's patent law process: Dennis J.M. Donahue III, Husch & Eppenberger, LLC Richard Haferkamp, Thompson Coburn, LLC John W. Kepler, III, Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, LC 11:53:00 PM    comment []

Illegal to run an email server without a licence in China. The ITU newlog reports "China has introduced regulations that make it illegal to run an email server without a licence. The new rules,which came into force two weeks ago,mean that most companies running their own email servers in China are now breaking the law.The new email licensing clause is just a small part of a new anti-spam law formulated by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII)". China to Regulate Email Servers [Smart Mobs] 10:55:21 AM    comment []

Islamic fundy video-game mods - hoax?. Cory Doctorow: A reader on Dvorak's forum says that the supposed Islamic fundamentalist video games where players are guerrillas in turbans stalking invading soldiers in tanks is a hoax: The video the retarded writer is referring to is not made by terrorists. It was made by a member of the Planetbattlefield forums. The voice of in the video is not a terrorist - it is Trey Parker from the movie Team America World Police. The article also claims it is a mod created by terrorist. It is not a mod. It is the Special Forces Expansion pack that anyone can buy. Link (Thanks, Gregory!) [Boing Boing] 10:55:04 AM    comment []

(Some of) Roland's Sunday Smart Trends #109. MySpace, Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites: Hot Today, Gone Tomorrow? Popular social networking sites, including MySpace and Facebook, are changing the human fabric of the Internet and have the potential to pay off big for investors, but -- given their youthful user base -- they are unusually vulnerable to the next 'new new' thing. As quickly as users flock to one trendy Internet site, they can just as quickly move on to another, with no advance warning. Source: Knowledge@Wharton, May 3, 2006 Visitors statistics of US social networking sites I came across a chart showing the unique visitors of US social networking sites (provided by Comscore, as of March 2006). Quite stunning to see that 23% of US Internet users are visiting MySpace (1 in 4). Source: Jeff Clavier's Software Only, May 4, 2006 Bloggers Are Trusted Least Bloggers rank lowest on the scale of trusted news sources, according to a poll released this week during a media conference in London. The survey, conducted by the polling company GlobeScan for the BBC-Reuters-Media Center "We Media" Forum and released Wednesday, ranked national TV as the most trusted news source overall, trusted by 82 percent of the 10,230 people surveyed in 10 countries. Internet blogs, on the other hand, were trusted by just 25 percent of the respondents. Source: Red Herring, May 4, 2006 [Smart Mobs] 10:54:41 AM    comment []

Q. What could a boarding pass tell an identity fraudster about you? A. Way too much. In The Guardian. 2:42:21 AM    comment []