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Qik Stream
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google search results
January 26, 2006Check out and compare these search results from Google China and Google US. I would say that Google has now broken at least 4 of their 10 commandments. In other google news, the NYTimes reports today that the DOJ suit is not a matter of protecting user privacy, but of protecting trade secrets. Google lawyer [...]
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Bizarre attempt at internet censorship
January 16, 2006Web Censorship for Dummies. Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. Posted January 3, 2006. Here’s an interesting story about CP80, a lobbying group pushing the “Internet Channel Initiative,” a “technology solution” designed to limit pornography. Their idea is to put all pornography on one “channel” (i.e., port) and so be able to limit access to that port. However, [...]
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GPL version 3 draft released
January 16, 2006Free Software Foundation GPLv3 draft The first draft of version 3 of the General Public License was released today. I haven’t read through the whole thing, or compared it to earlier versions, but DID notice this interesting little section on DRM: Some countries have adopted laws prohibiting software that enables users to escape from Digital [...]
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More on Network Neutrality
January 13, 2006Why we should care about network neutrality, now. Free Government Information, January 13, 2006. My latest update on network neutrality is on FreeGovInfo.info. It includes cites to Jeff Pulver, The Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times.
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WiFi debate: yea or nay?
January 9, 2006Wi-Fi run by cities: Yea or nay? Harold Feld of the Media Access Project (a media access advocacy organization) squared off against Tom Lenard of the Progress and Freedom Foundation (a free market economic think tank) in a debate about municipal WiFi. Feld argues that municipal WiFi is an infrastructural necessity on par with roads. [...]
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Data Mining 101
January 7, 2006Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists | Applefritter The Electronic Frontier Foundation points to this article that describes in detail how data mining works. It uses the Amazon.com “wish lists” (which many people make public), open source tools, and a little ingenuity to locate people who want to read “subversive” books. It even [...]
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ColdPizza DRM parody
January 5, 2006Boing Boing: What if pizzas came with licenses like the ones in DRM CDs? What if you had to agree to a license in order to eat a pizza? BoingBoing pointed me to this parody by Groklaw of a restrictive license that is distributed with X&Y, Coldplay’s latest CD. The parody points out the rediculousness [...]
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Will ISPs dictate what you can access?
January 2, 2006Open Access, Closed Debate, By Roy Mark, Commentary, Internet News, December 30, 2005. Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy calls it “walled gardens.” Now we call it a debate over “open access” vs “net neutrality.” With recent FCC decisions, “Network operators have the right to manipulate traffic with the goal of steering consumers [...]
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WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?
January 2, 2006The Edge Annual Question – 2006 To the Edge Community, Last year’s 2005 Edge Question – “What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?” – generated many eye-opening responses from a “who’s who” of third culture scientists and science-minded thinkers. The 120 contributions comprised a document of 60,000 words. The New [...]
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Narnia walks out of WTO talks
January 1, 2006The Lion, The Witch and The World Trade talks A hoax press-release describing Narnia’s ambassador’s dissatisfaction with the current round of World Trade Organization talks was picked up and run as news by many outlets including Forbes.
