Godzilla vs. the blog thing.  The Japanese monster's trademark owner breathes fire on a small-time blog site, sparking fears that AOL Time Warner-sponsored Mozilla.org might be next.  [CNET News.com]

One legal analyst said Toho was picking on a tiny opponent because prior battles with companies closer to its own size had ended in defeat. He cited a case in which Toho took Sears to court for its "Bagzilla" garbage cans, to no avail.

I like the way they call Davezilla a "small-time blog" - okay, so he's not AOL or Sears, but in the world of blogging, he's certainly not small-time - he's very popular, thank you, and so is his cute dragon which looks nothing like ugly Godzilla... 

Music slump 'not caused by piracy'  [Loebrich.org]

Forrester's report adds that record labels could use the internet to revive their fortunes by making it easier for people to find, copy and pay for music on their own terms.

Why is that so hard for the bozos in Hollywood to understand?  We're not all pirates, afterall, and some of us are getting really turned off by all of this Hollywood/Washington nonsense... 

The Eatonweb Edit Your Weblog Listing Drive.  [Scripting News] 

Loyd ponders (maybe a bit too much) on "What my site needs..." (hehe) 

Dodging pop-ups with Mozilla.  The open-source browser that's the primordial soup for Netscape is drawing applause for its pop-up-blocking feature. But don't expect to see the tool in Netscape 7.0.  [CNET News.com] 

August 2002

 


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