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Wednesday, June 26, 2002
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Copyright holders would receive carte blanche to use aggressive tactics to stop the illegal distribution of their works on online services like Morpheus and Kazaa under legislation outlined today by Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.). Washington Post June 25th
Argghhh - this has been a very bad week on the Internet Commons front.
8:59:50 PM 
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A great story from this evening's All Things Considered on NPR (and no, I did NOT register this link with NPR and I even fixed a grammatical error in the paragraph below).
River High Mountain Deep
Storyteller Mitch Myers tells us how the song "River Deep Mountain High" was created. The antics of record producer Phil Spector unfold in Mitch's conversation with a jukebox repairman, and we learn of the 1966 recording session at Gold Star Studios that included Brian Wilson, Dennis Hopper, Mick Jagger and Tina Turner. (8:00) The song "River Deep Mountain High" can be found on the Phil Spector boxed set called Back To Mono.
This whole NPR link policy is absurd. Beyond that it's damaging in that it is yet another example of misguided Internet policy. The NPR legal beagles do not have legal grounds and are woefully misinformed. Check out Glenn Fleishman's very eloquent letter to his NPR affliate.
8:43:51 PM
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Glenn Fleishman: Warchalking...you were there: the birth of a meme.
Warchalking is very fun. Of course Anchorage is not big enough, nor concentrated enough for Warchalking to really show up here. But it's still very cute. I'm waiting for the t-shirt!
8:25:22 PM
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Several links and interesting comments regarding the WorldCom debacle:
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New WorldCom CEO John Sidgmore's letter to WorldCom employees. Sidgmore, who is highly respected, has been CEO just since late April. What a hideous position he now finds himself in.
Rational people are starting to assume something that isn't necessarily true. They're becoming convinced that the system is hopelessly, irrevocably rigged against everyday investors by a corrupt cadre of insiders in boardrooms and on Wall Street, willfully assisted by regulators and elected officials who are either corrupt themselves or simply blind.
God bless the technology we are blessed with. I am sitting in the lab after hours watching the collapse of a multi-billion dollar company real time on the net. I love it - any way time to go, the popcorn is done.
I have always thought Bernie Ebbers was evil incarnate, but even I, never thought he would do something of this magnitude.
4:32:21 PM
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Oooooh - remote posting via e-mail does work. How exciting. Now I can pontificate from work. I'm sure my public will be thrilled.
However, there is a problem - remote HTML posts don't get posted as HTML. They get posted as plain text. So I won't be able to do anything fancy or involved at all. sigh...
Maybe I need to look into "remote access" posting. My dynamic IP address is going to be a problem though...
2:34:11 PM
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This is a test post via remote e-mail.
2:31:53 PM
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