Monday, March 4, 2002
FoxTrot
Bill Amend
...No, no — I just draw the line at playing Vanilla Ice.
Steve Jobs nails it
"We believe that over 80 percent of people are willing to pay", he says. "But there is no one offering you a choice".
Unfortunately, the link to the story doesn't work anymore...
Google Time Bomb
John Hiler
Will Weblogs blow up the world's favorite search engine?
Copyrights — or Mothballs?
Heather Green
Congress' continual extension of the protection period — under publishers' tenacious lobbying — has all but ended fair use.
Robot Exclusion Protocol
Paul Ford
"Yes. I will leave. First I index everything. Everything! I am Google!" It put out one of its video arms and began to read the label on my shampoo bottle. So I beat it into shards with a folding chair and let it index the dustbin.
