Carrying the Lantern

More on the ElcomSoft trial. Worth keeping an eye on.

Adobe: ElcomSoft Outside U.S. Law. A former piracy investigator for Adobe Systems testifies that he did not tell Russian software maker ElcomSoft to stop selling its eBook-cracking program because he didn't think U.S. copyright law crossed international borders. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]

Interesting article in the thread "Blogging - so what?" Rich R. might like this one...

Lowering the threshold of mulltiplied genius.

George Siemens on The Art of Blogging:

But what bloggers do is completely new - and cannot be replicated on any other medium. It's somewhere in between writing a column and talk radio. It's genuinely new. And it harnesses the web's real genius - its ability to empower anyone to do what only a few in the past could genuinely pull off. In that sense, blogging is the first journalistic model that actually harnesses rather than merely exploits the true democratic nature of the web. It's a new medium finally finding a unique voice.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

Good idea from one of the true pioneers in the weblog world. Go for it Dave ...

From the Please Don't Shoot Me I'm Really A Good Person dept, I'm thinking about doing the Scripting News Awards again this year, retiring some categories, adding some new ones. It's really just a way for me to honor the weblogs that meant the most to me in 2002, to allow people who read this site to pick the winner from a list of sites I nominate. Last year some people got very angry with me for doing the awards, but I think net-net it was a good thing. It's quite interesting to look at the lists a year later. For example, the scripting category has boomed. Last year it was hard to find any weblogs about scripting. And our choice was prescient. Mark Pilgrim showed huge promise in 2001, which blossomed in 2002. This year I'm going to have a Rookie of the Year category, and it's going to be huge. So many really cool blogs came online this year. And all through the year I've been linking to sites with great names, so there should be a category for Best Named Blog for 2002. [Scripting News]

Some very nice iMac candy for the holidays...

Ask MacSlash: Giving Your Mac Holiday Cheer [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]