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CNET NEWS.COM - Bush unveils final cybersecurity plan. The Bush administration signed off Friday on the final version of the United States' strategy for protecting the Internet and securing information systems. The policy statement, called the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, largely backs off from mandating that companies adopt certain measures. Instead, it calls for the government to work with private industry to create an emergency response system to cyberattacks and to reduce the nation's vulnerability to such threats. "Securing cyberspace is an extraordinarily difficult strategic challenge that requires a coordinated and focused effort from our entire society--the federal government, state and local government, the private sector and the American people," President George W. Bush wrote in a letter introducing the document. [Privacy Digest]
7:21:08 PM 
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Groove 2.5.
Team blogging
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Groove founder Ray Ozzie and his teams have always pretended to build application software. But what they have actually delivered are the operating systems of the future -- years ahead of schedule. The XML business Web is only now achieving the architecture that Lotus Notes laid down 15 years ago: message-oriented exchange of semi-structured documents. As today's operating systems catch up with that paradigm, Ozzie is tackling the next set of challenges in Groove: drop-dead simple secure collaboration, presence management, coordination of user and device identities, and ad-hoc group group formation.
[Full story at InfoWorld.com.]
The scenario shown in the screenshot uses Tim Knip's Groove interop tool -- a Radio UserLand add-in based on Groove Web Services -- to create a genuinely new experience of team blogging. Until now, team blogging has meant that a group of folks post to a common weblog. This setup does that too, but it also does something I find much more powerful -- it synchronizes the inputs to the collaborative process, as well as the output. In this case, the input is the combined set of RSS feeds subscribed to by the members of the shared space. Everyone knows that everyone else is seeing the same feeds. Discussion can grow around items in those feeds, and can take various forms: replies to the forum that receives the feeds, IM-style text chat, Roger Wilco-style voice chat.
... [Jon's Radio]
9:01:51 AM
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New words. Shower dementia: When you’re taking a shower and can’t remember if you’ve washed your hair yet.
Shampoo vu: That strange feeling you sometimes get that you’re washing your hair for the fourth time in the same shower. (A consequence usually of shower dementia.) [inessential.com]
7:36:04 AM
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Yahoo News - Judge Suspends Wash. State Phone Privacy . SEATTLE - Washington state regulations to protect the privacy of telephone customer account information, some of the toughest in the country, have been suspended by a federal judge. State regulations that were adopted in November and took effect in January required phone companies to obtain customer approval before selling calling records or using them to market anything but telecommunications services. But Verizon Communications Inc. of New York, which has about 1 million customers in Washington, sued the state, saying its Utilities and Transportation Commission overstepped its authority and infringed on the company's ability to speak to and serve customers. U.S. District Judge Barbara J. Rothstein ruled Monday that Verizon had raised "serious questions" about the constitutionality of Washington's privacy rules, and granted a preliminary injunction blocking their enforcement while the case is pending. The judge wrote that in weighing the company's free speech rights against privacy interests "the balance of hardships tips in Verizon's favor." She said federal privacy rules are sufficient to protect customers until this case is settled. [Privacy Digest]
7:34:15 AM
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© Copyright 2003 Paul W. Swansen.
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