LawMeme: “Google claims that PageRank is commercial speech, protected by the First Amendment.” [Scripting News] An interesting discussion of the meaning of commercial speech, contrary to Nike’s absurb claim of it’s right to lie to its customers.
Directions on Microsoft listed these Top 10 Challenges for 2003. It will be an exciting year!
I received Small Pieces Loosely Joined last week from Amazon thanks to a holiday gift certificate and sat down and read half of the book last night. It is an interesting introspection into this thing we call The Web, exploring the dimensions of space and time and where “there” is.
Farewell, Christmas Tree. Finally got around to taking down the Christmas Tree. The lights and glittering ornaments are so cheerful on a gloomy winter’s night. We enjoyed our tree and our new life very much this year.
RIAA Comes to Its Senses. I.e., RIAA Is Hacked Again?. The RIAA site has been hacked at least twice recently. But is this page a hack? It announces a new policy for the RIAA that sounds like it was written by the EFF: Dropping copy protection, dropping lawsuits against file-sharing neworks. .. Way too good [...]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published “Unintended Consequences,” a review of four years under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). The results have been chilling, for legitimate press, research, and the fair-use rights of U.S. citizens. I’m a member of EFF, and support their actions.
