Private company keeps your face for 10 years

Why I Will Never, Ever Fly Southeast Airlines. Wired News: Videocams Record Airline Flights. Southeast Airlines said it plans to install digital video cameras throughout the cabins of... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

3:53:36 PM    

RIAA Ethics

Pretty cheap, considering.

Andrew Orlowski: Congressman pocketed $18,000 for RIAA 'lobbying trip'. The congressman is James Sensenbrenner, who brokered the compromise that put an end to nearly all news about Internet radio, growth of which has been effectively throttled ever since.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

2:06:07 PM    

Whats an RSS?

You can have RSS without blog -- but can you blog without RSS?  Hmm... 

Dan Gillmor: "RSS is absolutely vital. It must be flexible enough for the aggregator creators to adopt in their own innovative ways. It must be kept out of the hands of corporate monopolists and would-be monopolists." [Scripting News]

2:02:11 PM    

Writing and Profits

Gillmor provides a link to a piece about a site that syndicates writers...

1:57:32 PM    

More Blog $$$ news...

Cadenhead detects some interesting trademark registrations....

Lycos, Amazon seek weblog trademarks. Lycos filed a trademark registration March 31 for Blog Builder, the weblog hosting software it offers on Tripod. The application, which can be viewed by browsing the trademark database of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, describes the services identified by the mark:

Creating and maintaining web sites for others; computer software design for others; data conversion of computer program data; installation of computer software.

Another company that is seeking a weblog-related trademark is Amazon.Com, which filed June 24 to register Blogcast for use in "personalized communication services, namely, transmission of a wide range of general interest information via the Internet." [Workbench]

10:49:41 AM    

No $$$ for TIA

Did I miss something?  Why am I learning of this from the BBC and not NYT, et al?

US snooping plan blocked. The US Senate blocks funding for a computer surveillance project that would comb through personal records. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

10:44:32 AM    

July 18, 2003 

Budget

State Revenue down for 2003.  Business Chronicle

State must dip further into reserves after missing estimate.  Access North Ga Columbus Macon Rome

Perdue looking for more ways to cut state budget.  Athens

Perdue considers cuts to help balance budget.  Augusta

Georgia tax revenue down in June.  Macon

State budget falls $160 million short.  Columbus

Little wiggle room left in budget.  AJC

Campaigns

Bush draws most of Georgia donations.  AJC

GOP sees southern exposure.  WSJ

Economy

Savannah extends summit hospitality.  AJC

G-8’s details, big and small. Savannah

Education

Perdue to hold education summit in Perry.  AJC

Work still left to make sure “No Child Left Behind” in Georgia.  Marietta

Late release of report could delay pupil transfer requests.  Augusta

Environment

EPD to consider tougher restrictions for MWA.  Macon

Health

Reese resigns from DCH.  Business Chronicle

Higher Ed

2 on UGA group deny aiding protest.  AJC

Dooley flap no worry, Adams says.  Athens Macon

Use of credit, plan dogging UT’s president.  Athens

Other

Cardoza joins AGL Resources.  Business Chronicle

Bell angered by cuts in art funding.  Rome

Tax assessor launches property web site.  Savannah

Politics

Political Insider.  AJC                                          

Public Safety

Counties seek E-911 grant.  AJC

Transportation

DOT board chairman stepping down.  Access North Ga Columbus Macon

Transit panel’s Reynolds to quit as chairman.  AJC

Editorials

Wooten: Thinking Right.  AJC

Tourist dollars leave Georgia.  Albany

Mascot Hall of Fame?  Augusta

Kathy Cox: Ga. Focuses on student achievement.  Augusta

Red Storm rising.  Savannah

G-8 economic summit will bring attention, commerce to Georgia.  Gainesville

Concerns for air quality stuck in holding pattern.  Macon

10:41:12 AM    

Paid Content

Really interesting article of someone making a decent living using the blog tool as his medium.  He gets it -- IT is not about the toys but the results.

Blogging for Bucks. Not many bloggers make money for providing links, but independent journalist Rafat Ali does. Ali publishes PaidContent, a blog-cum-newsletter, and is doing pretty well, thank you. Wired News asked him how he does it. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

10:40:52 AM    

E-mail hell

Well, they figured out how to route voice mail to discourage you from calling, so I guess email was the next to go.

White House E-Mail System Becomes Less User-Friendly. Those who want to send a message to the president must now navigate as many as nine Web pages and fill out a form that asks if they support White House policy. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]

10:28:07 AM    

More on Public Executions and File sharing

Doc Searls finds more data on Conyers-Berman.  John Q Public commented on my post yesterday wondering if this strategy would scale?  Hmm...

Speaking of loads.

Says here that Reps Conyers and Berman (both Democrats, fwiw) want jail time for folks who share music on their hard drives. There's nothing about the bill (or even much current stuff at all) on Conyer's site. Berman's site points to Tom-watson.co.uk, titled Section-by-Section Analysis of The Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act of 2003.

They might as well call it the Jail your customer industrial suicide act.

Tom-watson's operative Analysis of Sec 301:

Clarifies that the uploading of a single copyrighted work to a publicly accessible computer network meets the 10 copy, $2,500 threshold for felonious copyright infringement.

From Berman, here are the press release and the floor statement. A .pdf file of the whole bill is here. (Isn't there a law somewhere that says the damn bill should be in html? Oughta be if there isn't.)

Go read it. Scary shit.

Bonus link from Mitch Ratcliffe: Prison for fileswappers -- Dumbest idea ever.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

10:25:46 AM