I find the contrasts in the following headlines interesting for what they say of the editor's knowledge of the subject before the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals:

Court Rules Some File-Sharing Companies are not liable (NYT)

Judges rule file-sharing software legal (News.com)

Studios are dealt Piracy setback (WSJ)

US Court rejects Movie, Music Makers' Piracy Claims (Reuters)

Court ruling favors music-sharing networks (Post)

Now, the following is the most accurate headline from early in the day today:

Court Finds for Grokster, Others on Copyright (Reuters). Reuters - A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled several Internet file-sharing software companies are not liable for copyright infringement for digital video and music files traded online utilizing their programs.

I have read a couple of critiques of the ruling and it boils down to an affirmation of the Sony Betamax decision of 1984.  Such affirmation hardly constitutes a blow to piracy efforts anymore than it legitimizes illegal sharing of music across a network.  Perhaps editors need to spend more time in class so that the content and context are more clearly represented in the headline (but, then they couldn't sell papers then could they?)

9:44:33 PM    

e-Access

The City of Valdosta's efforts to create its own broadband access company is causing current providers to cut rates for access.

e-Gov

Take a chapter from Re-inventing Government, empower the employees and voila - a winning government employee bid to lower the cost of doing business.

e-Health

Bush says drug imports should be allowed if safe.  New York State now displays drug prices on web site.

e-Learning

In New York, web logs are seen as new bulletin boards for schools.  A Texas school district goes wireless.

Researchers attempt to improve user interface for web searches to imitate experience of 'walking through a library.'

e-Politics

Try your political skills with this virtual campaign.

e-Property

Publishing Industry is deciding how to implement DRM - third graders may require password to access text.  A Conyers editorial points out that publisher McGraw Hill was favoring one county with lots of freebies, including on-line texts.

7:19:03 AM    

Everytime I talk with David Janes about his news aggregator named "Jäger" I think of Jager Meister (the alcoholic drink).

I don't know why, but the new version that David just released has lots of new stuff. Here's the official blurb: "Jäger is a "one-panel" syndication reader that uses the user's browser to display weblog content. Version 1.4 features offline content reading (including aggregating many weblogs together on a single page), full-text searching, a simplified user interface and a price tag of $0."

5:19:47 AM