DRM technology has its first two major trainwrecks, by David Berlind, ZDNet.com October 28, 2005.
…in addition to making sure your content doesn’t work on incompatible devices, now the DRM technology keeps the content from working on compatible ones.
Some license issuers will not allow you to store backups of their license filesÉ.However, if you use these [...]
EFF: 3-minute Guide to the Broadcast Flag, by Cory Doctorow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
European Affairs Coordinator.
Copyfight
calls this “The Broadcast Flag for Dummies” and has more useful links to basic information about the broadcast flag.
As Cory notes, the “broadcast flag” is just the most recent example of the entertainment industry running scared:
The entertainment companies don’t like tools [...]
Media Companies Go Too Far in Curbing Consumers’ Activities, By WALTER S. MOSSBERG,
The Wall Street Journal., October 20, 2005.
Mossberg enumerates the problems with Digital
Rights Management (DRM) technologies on iTunes,
TiVo, Windows Media Player, and more. He notes
that “the real issue isn’t DRM itself — it’s the manner in which DRM is used by copyright [...]
Creating Passionate Users: The Concept Carification effect by Kathy Sierra on October 21, 2005.
Kathy Sierra is one of the strongest advocates
for users of anyone I know. Her “Head First” books from O’Reilly are best sellers because she knows how to write and create books that connect to people.
Although her website Creating Passionate Users isn’t [...]
Wired magazine has a good story
(Cliff Notes From the Blog World, By Ryan Singel,
Wired, October 21, 2005)
on a useful new service that tracks
blogs and what’s being discussed.
Memeorandum “Political Web,
page A1″
tech.memorandum “Tech Web,
page A1″
The service “aims to be the automated newspaper of the online world”
and provides two distinct and separate views, one for politics [...]
Stanford iTunes
Stanford on iTunes provides university-related audio content via the iTunes Music Store, AppleŐs popular music jukebox and online music store. Stanford on iTunes gives alumni and the general public free access to a wide range of Stanford-specific digital audio content. The project includes two sites:
a public site, targeted primarily at alumni, which will [...]
ACRLog
ACRLog is the official blog of the Association of College & Research Libraries.
ACRLog is a blog that aims to discuss the issues of the day in the field of academic librarianship. It will strive to get you thinking about what you do, why you do it, and how it fits into this enterprise we [...]
I Spy With My Little EULA., by Donna Wentworth,
Copyfight, October 14, 2005.
Wentworth reports on a particularly nasty development and links to lots more information.
The issue is a EULA (End User License Agreement) that one company is using that allows it to run a program on your computer every 15 seconds and communicate information about [...]
Yahoo! Search – Instant Search.
“Instant Search gives you answers as you type — no more waiting!”
This beta application from
Yahoo next uses
Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming to deliver immediately, as you type, a best match
for your search. This is certainly an interesting and flashy application
that may be useful in some search situations.
It is [...]
First Monday Special Issue #2: Open Source October 2005
An excellent compilation.
“Many of those contributions have appeared in First Monday and hence, this special issue is a celebration of these contributions and their impact on academia and practice.”
Papers are grouped in the following categories:
Reflections
The Classic Beginning
Motivation
Social Structure
Linux
Critiques of Open Source
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