Saturday, October 18, 2003 Senators Want JetBlue Probe Isn't it enough that JetBlue has been shamed in the court of public opinion? Don't those folks inside the beltway have other stuff to do, maybe even more important stuff? Three senators ask the Pentagon to investigate whether it broke a privacy law by gathering information about JetBlue customers without notifying the passengers. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News] 8:34:10 AM    comment [] New Orleans I scored a 85% on the "How New Orleans are You?" Quizie! What about you? 8:07:25 AM    comment [] Larry O'Brien is starting InkPositive :... Larry O'Brien is starting InkPositive: a website for Tablet PC users. But, look at his tease for the upcoming site. It's one of the more compelling "under construction" messages I've seen. [Scobleizer] 7:33:14 AM    comment [] New! Improved! BuzzPhraser 2.1 This is cool! Bookmark it if you need to boost some business writing or for your next Power Point Presentation. Bookmark it anyway just for fun. Just in time for my keynote at Digital ID World this morning, Charles Roth hacked the entire IdentoLatin lexicon into BuzzPhraser. (Find the IdentoLatin lexicon by clicking on the pop-down menu under "TechnoLatin." So, with one click, you can produce "Inherently Consumer-Existing Disclosure-facing Approver WS-* Architect Flow Repository Infrastructure. Or "Limited Cross-Legacy Portable Semantic Brokered Legislative Credential Architect." Or Fully Federated Bedrock SOAP-Structured Task Interface ROI Service Attribute Standard." I compiled the lexicon over the last two days of listening to talks and reading Digital Identy poop in the backs of conference rooms. Fun. A big thanks to Charles for coming through with that. Later, when I get a chance, I'll put up the whole table some kind of spreadsheety form. Not sure yet. Now I'm at the Denver airport (now amply wi-fi'd) with AKMA, getting ready to catch a flight home to Santa Barbara. See ya tomorrow. [Doc Searls] 7:18:21 AM    comment [] Text Mining the Multiverse The NYT has a decent piece about text-mining, skimming large volumes of miscellaneous text to extract some sort of refined knowledge from it. [Slashdot] 7:13:49 AM    comment [] 15,000 Alleged Violations of Don't Call Registry And we're surprised about this, why? Now things get serious. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reports it has received 15,000 complaints that telemarketers have violated the Do Not Call Registry in its first couple weeks of going into effect. While no specific enforcement actions have begun, the FTC is tracking the alleged violations in a database available to many prosecutorial offices. It remains to be seen how well the accusers understand the exceptions to the Registry's requirements, such as political and previous business relationships being exempted. DM News reports. Tig Tillinghast comments. [this is a summary - go to our web site for the complete entry, links, comments and categories] [marketingfix] 7:05:44 AM    comment [] Squaw Valley Gets Wi-Fi I wonder when the first Colorado Slopes will get this? The Lake Tahoe ski resort is now covered in Wi-Fi, courtesy of Exwire: Future services on the network will let PDA users see where their friends are within the resort. Exwire is charging $2.50 an hour, $8 a day, $21 per week or $29 per month.... [802.11b Networking News] 7:00:31 AM    comment []