Monday, July 7, 2003

Supernova talking points on Wiki My plane took off, flew for an hour and did a U-turn. Electrical problems. We're switching planes now, but I'm stuck in Japan again. Anyway, I've created a tentive outline of stuff I want to talk about on the panel. Please take a look and feel free to comment. It's here. I got this idea of using a wiki from Cory [Joi Ito's Web] 5:43:21 AM    comment []

Adobe pares Mac support Adobe Systems is set to announce new versions of its video products--but Mac users will be out of luck when it comes to video editing. [CNET News.com] 5:28:49 AM    comment []

Aaron’s Censorware Ed Felten half-seriously suggests that we create censorware that doesn’t overblock and has an open list, so that US libraries who want to receive federal funding can do so without unduly harming free speech. (A recent Supreme Court ruling says that the CIPA law which makes having censorware a condition of federal funding is constitutional.) Up for the challenge, I’ve written a simple censorware program (the censor code is only a couple of lines): censor.py By default it only blocks www.microsoft.com, but the list is adjustable. [Aaron Swartz] 5:18:57 AM    comment []