19 August 2002
Born Digital: Children of the Revolution. From this month's Wired, a kind of Kids Say The Darndest Things for the digital generation. I'm not sure yet whether this is totally terrifying, mildly disturbing, or a heart-warming view of life's new rich pageant ...
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Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. -- Italian Proverb (The Quotations Page)

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Call for clarity in e-commerce: the FT on the UK's new e-commerce legislation.
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Now this is what we need to organise on a boring afternoon in downtown Dublin. Or maybe not, given that we have so few broadband connections to piggyback WiFi on to -- only Greece has fewer DSL connections (zilch!) than Ireland's big fat whopping 997:

Node Runner: WarJogging Manhattan. A group of New Yorkers are planning to jog through Manhattan with WiFi-equipped laptops in a race to see who can cover the most mileage while logging the most wireless access points.  [Boing Boing Blog]


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New company aims for simpler PGP. PGP Corp. sets out to do what Network Associates couldn't--entice enterprise customers to buy encryption products based on the PGP algorithm by making them easier to use. [CNET News.com]


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Search sites work to clean up their act. Major Web portals are working to separate paid listings from nonpaid ones after a recent warning shot from federal regulators. [CNET News.com]


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Dog wardens have more power than telecoms regulator: "The shilly-shallying by Vodafone over whether to take up its third generation (3G) mobile phone licence is yet another manifestation of the ineptitude that passes for the Government's communications policy." John McManus in today's Irish Times, subscription required.


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