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Monday, June 17, 2002

Cory Doctorow: It's a small, mad, mad, small, mad, small (wireless) world. "Doc Searls is in London, wandering the streets, looking for a cafe close to an open 802.11b access-point. Having found one, he sits down, has a cup of coffee and starts to blog. A few minutes later, two British geeks sit nearby him, talking about "access." Wait a sec, sez Doc to himself -- I know that guy!..." [Jake's Radio 'Blog] 3:09:23 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Legal Spin on the class action stuff.... Class Action Over Copy Protected CDs From Denise: "The Milberg Wiess law firm, known for its pursuit of shareholder derivative class actions, filed a lawsuit against five record labels last week on behalf of consumers injured by anti-copy protection incorporated into music CDs. [Via Law.com] This should get people's attention... More from the Mercury News and the Manila Business World. I haven't read the complaint, but I'm assuming California Business & Profession Code Sections 17200 (unfair business practices) and 17500 (false advertising) receive at least honorable mentions. And as Kevin Marks pointed out awhile ago on Reading Gonzo Engaged, it is not inconceivable that California Penal Code Section 502 might eventually get some play over this issue." [Bag and Baggage] Now this is interesting!!!!  What about a antitrust tying claim for selling CDs [Ernie the Attorney] [C.K. Sample, III: my iPod Blog] 3:02:38 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Wisdom form the Shifted Librarian. Brilliant! Although, It's Not Just Online Books..... If you've ever borrowed a book, CD, or video from a library (and I do mean ever), think about the next generation of kids not being able to do that with digital files, which will include ebooks, MP3s, MP4s, and more in the near future. We're well on our way to turning out culture into digital files, so imagine if libraries couldn't catalog, circulate, or preserve that culture. [The Shifted Librarian] [C.K. Sample, III: my iPod Blog] 3:01:17 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

Bizcard-sized CD blanks cheap. Wanna burn a bunch of business-card discs? $40 gets you 100 CD-biz-card blanks, each holding 50MB. You could hand out copies of Seth Schoen's Bootable Business Card Linux, a substantial fraction of Project Gutenberg, you name it. I'm told that you can burn these with any tray-loading burner. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 1:28:45 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

blogToaster. Simon Fell has a new toy -- blogToaster. "...start a chat session, enter "add http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/" and hit enter, repeat with all the URL's of the weblogs you want to get notified about. enter "list" to see the list of URL's you've registered. When BlogToaster picks up a change from weblogs.com of a URL you've registered, it'll send you a message." [Jake's Radio 'Blog] 1:26:02 PM    Clarence Westberg's Links & Comments

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