Saturday, December 14, 2002

Come on Dan, you're just finding this out? CNN Hones Propaganda Skills [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 10:05:32 PM    comment []

Mozilla Drops Support For OS <X [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion] 10:01:42 PM    comment []

Slashdot | Your Rights Online - SBC-Yahoo Partnership Cuts User Privacy. simeonbeta2 writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is running a story about Pac Bell's dsl partnership with Yahoo. Initially touted as a new service, Pac Bell is apparently now mailing existing dsl customers to urge them to install additional client software that will enable 'incredible new features and services'. While SBC's privacy policy is not excessively intrusive, use of the new software is covered by Yahoo's privacy policy, which is just a bit more Orwellian." --- The story's a little overblown - Yahoo's privacy policy reads that way because they offer financial services and the like, where they may well need financial information from you to provide the service. The reporter needed to investigate this new software DSL users are being asked to install, and find out what sort of user tracking it enables. [Privacy Digest] 11:44:39 AM    comment []

Adelphia's Cable Modems Compromised [Slashdot] 11:41:16 AM    comment []

Turn about is fair play? Discuss Keeping Track of John Poindexter. Online pranksters have turned the tables on the man behind the government's controversial Total Information Awareness effort. They are posting his personal information on hundreds of sites. By Paul Boutin. [Wired News] 11:36:28 AM    comment []

Blog on blog. Even if you're not new to all ... this... Weblogging Resources has some interesting links, and advice to go with them. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 11:31:56 AM    comment []

New Web-based Wi-Fi discussion forum: In conjunction with the launch of my book on wireless networking (see upper left of this page), my co-author and I have launched a discussion forum for Wi-Fi issues, as well as issues from the book. I've been longing to set up a simple threaded forum for quite a while, and finally found the right package and approach. Join us! [80211b News] 11:29:29 AM    comment []

Building The Hotspot Infrastructure in Europe. Here's how Wi-Fi public access start-up Megabeam plans to beat the big boys in the battle for Europe's hotspot market. [allNetDevices Wireless News] 9:39:08 AM    comment []

English countryside doing it for themselves: This story by Ben Hammersley, written in October for the Guardian (but missed by me), tells of how rural areas in England are prompting entrepreneurial efforts, often involving Wi-Fi, to bring high-speed connections to areas that British Telecom says are too far below their radar. In Wales, a community effort inspired by Dave Hughes is rapidly transforming the picture of connectivity, and the secondary effects are apparently already cropping up. What better way to unite people spread out geographically for common cause than access? [80211b News] 9:33:14 AM    comment []

Wi-Fi Powers Activate! Shape of a package! Form of a UPS Driver!: UPS merges a Bluetooth "ring" with a Wi-Fi belt attachment to speed package handling and tracking. [80211b News] 9:29:12 AM    comment []

DIRECTV Broadband Shuts Down [Slashdot] 9:28:27 AM    comment []

Update - Fire As mentioned the other day, (scroll down for all you other folks), I downloaded this to give it a whirl. Well it whirled right into the trash this morning. The interface is crappy, and the overall working isn't very intuitive. I had to keep clicking on various things to see if anyone was on-line, as there were no audio or visual indicators that someone on my lists had come on-line. 9:18:09 AM    comment []