Tuesday, March 11, 2003

You Go Mitch! From today's NY Times: Mitchell D. Kapor, a personal computer industry software pioneer and a civil liberties activist, has resigned from the board of Groove Networks after learning that the company's software was being used by the Pentagon as part of its development of a domestic surveillance system. Click here (free registration required) to read the article. 8:26:59 PM    comment []

The Hive Brain An interesting CNN blogging article. Better than the average media drivel regarding blogs: The way bloggers link and influence each other's thinking could lead to a collective thought process, "a kind of hive brain," said Chris Cleveland, who runs Dieselpoint, a Chicago maker of search software that recently worked with Blogger.com. The hive brain is a science fiction theme most famously explored in the 1996 Star Trek movie "First Contact," but Cleveland believes blogs can turn the concept into reality with the help of Google's sifting skills. Well, you know the saying "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." 8:22:54 PM    comment []

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