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- Someone in Congress finally flags the evil broadcast flag
- Corey Doctorow: Until now, lawmakers have been reluctant to speak out against [the Broadcast and Audio Flags]. A combination of expert lobbying and technological ignorance has made Congress suicidally willing to consider proposals to break America's televisions....But in yesterday's Commerce hearings, two Senators altered the...
- Tags: Ted Stevens, Corey Doctorow
- Blog posts 2006-02-01
Additional Resources
- TechNet Edge Series: External Web Application Management Using IIS 7
- In this screencast, MVP Corey Hynes takes us through the new managment service in IIS 7 that addresses the need to delegate remote administration while maintaining the security of your web server. To view the entire video click here.
- Tags: Microsoft IIS 7.0, Web Application, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft IIS Server, Remote Administration, Web Servers, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Internet, Marketing, Windows Server 2008
- Videos 2008-04-29
- EclipseCon 2008: Fake Steve Jobs, Microsoft, E4, and more
- EclipseCon 2008 opens Monday at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara CA. The schedule for the week includes a trio of interesting keynote speakers, a ton of technical sessions, and a tinge of controversy over the future of Eclipse development. The first day will be...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, EclipseCon, Microsoft Corp., Eclipse, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Follow-up: Build-A-Bear says it will take privacy suggestions to heart
- There were lots of reactions to my last post about Build-A-Bear luring kids and parents into divulging personal information they might otherwise, in other contexts, guard more closely. While some responses channeled Scott McNealy, most seemed to get that my beef was not with the fact of the data...
- Tags: Information, Build-A-Bear, Privacy Policy, Upshot, E-mail, Online Communications, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-01-26
- Harvesting data from children with cuddly creatures and cutesy keyboards
- And you thought Beacon is was creepy. Yesterday I had my first experience at a Build-A-Bear Workshop store. Build-A-Bear, if you're not familiar with it, is a publicly traded company headquartered in St. Louis, MO, with some 350 retail outlets worldwide. ...
- Tags: Kid, Keyboards, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Peripherals, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- What that RIAA/CD rip court brief really says
- There's a lot of misinformation floating around the blogosphere about what exactly the (hiss, boo) Recording Industry Association of America is saying in a court brief about the very act of ripping your CDs, converting them to MP3s, and then storing them on your hard drive...
- Tags: Hard Drive, P2P, RIAA, Keyphrase, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Larry Dignan loans me his Kindle
- Larry Dignan loans me his Kindlemeanwhile....While you are waiting for the textbook capable Kindle you could try this for free: http://www.booksinmyphone.comThe provide public domain and creative commons works (doctorow? stross?) that you can download into your java enabled cell phone. The phone screen is small but within a few minutes...
- Tags: phone screen, textbook, Larry Dignan
- Discussion threads 2007-12-07
- Facebook: Of the people but not for or by the people?
- It's no wonder the Social Web--the Internet with the concept of people and relationships embedded in the fabric (what Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls the Giant Global Graph)--has become such a controversial topic. It's a kind of spontaneous, greedy gold rush for the social networks to accumulate members, exploit the social...
- Tags: Facebook, MoveOn.org, Cory, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Explore the Ubuntu Linux desktop
- GNOME, Ubuntu Linux's default desktop environment, takes its inspiration from both Windows and Mac OS X, prioritizing simplicity and ease of use. But unlike other operating systems, Ubuntu includes everything you need to get started: an office suite, media tools, a Web browser, a graphics package, and an e-mail client....
- Tags: Ubuntu, Ubuntu Linux, Prentice Hall Inc., Linux, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Hardware
- Book chapters 2007-10-19
- Why McLuhan was right when it comes to attention
- Through his always enriching podcast, I've heard Cory Doctorow give variations on his privacy talk at least five or six times over the last year. The most current iteration is available at Intel's/Josh Bancroft's BitStories. In responding to an audience question, Cory explains exactly why, when it comes...
- Tags: Message, Liberty, Computer, Cory, Productivity, Podcasts, Internet, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Do companies benefit from social networking?
- According to two U.S. researchers, fewer degrees of separation make companies more innovative. They've studied the innovative performance of about a thousand companies in various industries over a six-year period. And they've concluded that "companies that network and form strategic alliances are more creative and develop more patented inventions than...
- Tags: Social Networking, Alliance, Network, Knowledge, Industry, Benefit, Firm, Alliance Network, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-17
- Troubleshoot these typical Ubuntu Linux problems
- Ubuntu developers work constantly to improve the Ubuntu user experience, but there will always be bugs, glitches, and errors in any software. In this chapter download from The Official Ubuntu Book, learn how to address typical problems that you may face when using Ubuntu 6.06. Practical solutions are...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Ubuntu Linux, Prentice Hall Inc., Linux, Operating Systems, Software
- Book chapters 2007-08-16
- Lawgarithms Links for 8/13/07
- Remember that between entries here you can keep up with the Live Web and other issues I'm spotting by subscribing to my Google Reader Starred Items. Among the links now playing:Two-word license agreement: "F--- YOU!", from Boing Boing by Cory DoctorowFair Use for YouTube & MySpace Users, from Slashdot...
- Tags: Google Inc., BitTorrent, Google Reader, Blog, Lawgarithms, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- Photos: MIT's solar house under construction
- MIT works on its entry in a competition searching for a realistic, marketable house powered entirely by the sun.On the fringe of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Mass., volunteer students and advisers are building a home powered entirely by the sun. This 800-square-foot building, which started to...
- Tags: Team management, photograph, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Solar Decathlon, MIT Solar 7, team, University of Colorado, Boulder, tube, nod, ceremony, daylight, solar energy, fluctuation, tile, deck, Washington D.C., advisor, Paris, Washington
- Image galleries 2007-08-10
- Lawgarithms Links for 7/20/07
- Now that I'm smitten with keeping a link blog, I'll endeavor once a week or so to cull through it for things I think might be of particular interest to Lawgarithms readers. So, here we go. I'm curious whether you find such undertakings useful or not, so there's...
- Tags: Social news, Social networking, Privacy, Patent, Live Web, Links, Licenses, Lawsuits, DRM, DMCA, Copyright, Collaboration, Blogging
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- Harry Potter on the Torrents proves once more: Torrents are dens of thieves
- Harry Potter on the Torrents proves once more: Torrents are dens of thievesDon't forget to addphotocopiers, scanners, and printers. All used for nothing but copyright infringement. Without the scanners, for instance, this could never have happened.Pardon me -- I've got to go and restart my seeds of the...
- Tags: Scanners, Torrents, den, BitTorrent
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- Cory Doctorow on taming the trolls
- Cory Doctorow on taming the trollsAttracting the trollsFirst let's define what a troll is. Basically it's someone who disagrees with you - they may be foaming at the mouth and raving about Win$ucks or Eunuchs (guilty ;-)) or be incapable of logical argument see Paul Murphy but essentially they...
- Tags: Blogging, ZDNet Bloggers, Cory Doctorow, troll, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- Cory Doctorow on taming the trolls
- Great, great post on the InformationWeek blog by Boing Boing founder, author, and deep thinker Cory Doctorow on how to deal with trolls. It turns out that nuclear science is a great metaphor for managing community and the secret lies in "twiddling the rods" in just the right fashion. Just...
- Tags: Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- A Digg riot and AACS
- A Digg riot and AACSRe: A Digg riot and AACSNo, Joe guitar player probably doesn't have the heft to go out and sell advertising for his songs. But he's not going to sell enough music on that $20 a month server to pay the cost to license the DEM...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), advertisement, digital-rights management, Digg
- Discussion threads 2007-05-02
- AACS licensing authority censors Cory Doctorow's class blog
- This is just so wrong on so many levels. The AACS licensing authority sends a legal threat to Cory Doctorow (blogger, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing) over a blog relating to a USC undergraduate class that hes been involved in teaching:I just censored Teque5s post about the AACS processing...
- Tags: Blu-ray, DRM, HD-DVD, Legal, Links
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
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