Sunday, February 23, 2003

Do you own your email? This is a long, yet readable, lawblog entry of someone who found their email forwarded without their consent. Once you create digital content, do you implicitly control it, or can anyone who sees it reuse it and recopy it in any way they wish? Towards the bottom he draws parallels with the music industry... we've got the same issues with site design, applet design, any type of delivered code. For Rich Internet Applications some of the guts remain on your own server, but then we've got reuse of web services to think about as well.... [posted by John Dowdell at Macromedia MX, 2/21/2003] 6:34:30 AM

Smart Lawns The imminent arrival of the artificially-intelligent lawn. Yet more evidence that the future is here already, it's just not evenly distributed. Gizmodo: Wireless sprinkler system : Possibly the weirdest use of wireless technology yet is a new wireless sprinkler system that's coming out in May from a company called Digital Sun. The X.Sense creates a wireless mesh network using moisture sensors strategically inserted into your lawn that keeps track of when and how much to water. Best of all, the wireless network is encrypted, lest anyone try to hack your sprinkler system. [Brad DeLong, February 21, 2003 01:06 PM] 6:16:03 AM

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