"Critics Weigh In on Copyright Act. The U.S. Copyright Office asked for public comment on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and it got it. Critics worry about everything from losing great art to restricting blind people's access to information. By Joanna Glasner." [Wired News]

No surprises here.

11:10:38 PM    

 Palm OS 5 Interview With David Fedor of PalmSource [Palminfocenter]

11:07:58 PM    

 Morocco wants to have reliable, independent justice [Arabic News]

10:59:15 PM    

 King Mohammed, President Chirac dedicate Mohammed V Square in Paris [Arabic News]

10:57:34 PM    

Blogging Goes Mainstream (TechNews.com) 

"Chris Gulker, a blogger in his own right, wrote in the newspaper. "Many of us are Webloggers 'bloggers' for short. It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between the meteoric rise of blogging, the practice of keeping a frequently-updated online journal, and the rise of unemployment in Silicon Valley and other tech corridors. When you're not working, you don't have to worry about the boss objecting to you working on a blog." "

Interesting idea, but what about all of us who are clearly not unemployed techies?  In fact, as the Post suggests, the explosion in blogging may have more to do with the increasing ease of publishing on the web, which is precisely the necessary condition for allowing non-techies to participate.

10:47:00 PM    

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Blogging Goes Mainstream (TechNews.com) 

"We know blogging has hit the mainstream for sure when companies are trying to make a profit on what started as a grass-roots effort. This week a Providence, R.I. company called Traction Software unveiled new versions of Web log software for businesses, designed for marketers to conduct market research online. "

I hope this is not as bad as it sounds.  The last thing I need is blogging spyware.

10:43:19 PM    

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Free Speech and Satan's Web Page (washingtonpost.com) 

"The Supreme Court has held that students do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech at the schoolhouse gate," U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan said. "There is no evidence that the Web site interfered with the work of the school or that any other student's rights were impinged.

" . . . Plaintiff's listing of names under the heading 'people I wish would die' did not constitute a threat to the people listed therein, any more than plaintiff's listing of names under the heading 'people that are cool' make those listed therein 'cool.' "

9:21:13 AM    

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