First Blood is Spilled at Record Industry Hearings - The War is On!!!  [Hack the Planet] 

What the net is doing to you.  One of the world's first research centres dedicated to studying the social and political effects of the net has opened in Oxford.  [BBC News | TECHNOLOGY]

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both2and: beyond binary:  Here Comes the Academy

Don't get me wrong, I certainly feel that the internet is worthy of study. And I'm all in favor of people having opinions and acting upon them. I'm just disappointed that the overall reaction here seems to be just that, fearful and reactionary.

Pascale makes some interesting points about "internet studies." 

Bill Turner:  "I think it's quite brave of you to insist that you should be on the first page of Google results for the word weblog. But if you change the search query a bit, you end up as number one!"
 

ColorMatch 5K.  his utility will help you select a matching 6-color palette for your website...  [xBlog] 

What Hollywood Wants to Do To P2P Users.  The written version of Randy Saaf's testimony at yesterday's Berman-Coble hearings is now available... [Freedom To Tinker] 

Alwin Hawkins:  "Crazy people have degenerate brains.  In other top stories, water makes things wet..." 

The Shifted Librarian:  Don't Forget Karaoke Machines!

Related:
Professor posts digital device hit list. Could singing fish novelties be hooked by a proposed law requiring anti-copying technology in digital devices? Princeton professor Ed Felten thinks so.  [CNET News.com] 

Why Sharing shouldn't be piracy 

>>  How many people do you know that would actually spend 30 hours "pixelizing" their apartment?  5 rooms, true-to-scale, done "one pixel at a time."  It's nothing short of astounding...  [Coolstop Daily Pick 10/1/02] 

Take this Blog and Shove It:

I've had enough geek blogging.
I've had enough news blogging.
I've had enough political blogging.
I've had QUITE enough blogging about blogging.

[more at The Universal Church Of Cosmic Uncertainty] 

New Kazaa stealing referral links  [life - listed chronologically < evhead]

Related:
Standards urged for e-tail commissions. A dispute over software that diverts sales commissions for online merchants leads to calls for an industry standard for "parasiteware." [CNET News.com] 

October 2002

 


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