TCPA and Palladium in Plain Terms
Ross Anderson: TCPA / Palladium FAQ. Well worth a read, it explains the whole story without hype.…
Ooh, A Webcam
Who knows how long this will last, but I’ve set up a webcam: 320x240 photo of (some portion of) me,…
Essentially… Blogging Cats?
Mena Trott writes: If, like me, you’re a sucker for illustrations of seemingly insane, flat-headed cats, then you’ll love the…
Who’s heading to OSCON?
Who’s going to O’Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2002? (Let me know!) I’ll also be putting together a list of…
Trackback
Movable Type has an exciting new feature called TrackBack, which allows blogs to communicate with one another.
Shorter Than TinyURL!
shorl.com not only is a shorter domain name than TinyURL, they use MeRS (which they call Koremutake). Nice! They also…
Interesting Content?
Software gets mirrored on a thousand servers across the Web, but what about content? I’m working on a new project…
Public Trust, Not Public Trough
IMS, IMC: .org Application Packing List. Be sure to drop a note expressing your support. This proposal is key to…
An Anti-DRM Video Game
In EFF’s continuing output of extremely innovative ways to get their message across, they’ve created The Carabella Game: The Quest…
Microsoft Attempts to Cement Monopoly Under Guise of Continuing Copyright Terrorism
Infowarrior: Preparing for the Digital Dark Age. “In short, under the feel-good guise of ‘enhanced security’ and ‘new features for…
Emergent Hypertext
Mark Bernstein writes about how weblogs are emergent hypertexts, each new entry adding a piece to an ongoing story, all…
EFF Rudeness
Aahz: Rudeness for rudeness, an open letter to the EFF. “Had Brad behaved this way with almost anyone else, I…
My Cocoa App
While reading Machine Beauty I came up with a wonderful idea (as seems to happen often with Gelernter books…) for…
License Haiku
Update: More licenses at QuickTopic, raph’s weblog. I think that people really use software licenses to express intentions, and don’t…
cloudmark
The folks behind the free-software razor have teamed up started a new company: cloudmark. They’ve build Cloudmark SpamNet, a plugin…
[more|less] annoying than an NPR Pledge Drives
NPR won’t let weblogs link, weblogs adopt NPR’s fundraising policies.
David Sifry is Online
David Sifry, formerly of Linuxcare and started Sputnik, which builds tools for grassroots wireless networks. Now he has his own…
Do you trust Microsoft’s Trusted Computing Platform?
NYTimes: Fears of Misuse of Encryption System Are Voiced Schoen’s against it of course. Farber’s for it: “It should be…
do the Archive!
Slashdot on the Wayback Machine, plus stories from RLG DigiNews and the Seattle Times.
AudioGalaxy R.I.P.
The RIAA reaches a sad settlement with AudioGalaxy, marking the end of the best way to get music, ever.
Librarians Join Fight Against Copyright Terrorism
An NYTimes article on the battle over online books.
today’s featured superhero: Carl Malamud
Carl Malamud is an unstoppable technical and social hacker.
simpler than HTML m172n
The WaSP is back and Mark is talking.
CCing LR MP3s
Lisa Rein does some technical singing.
at least we still have Hack the Planet
No Scripting News updates? How does history respond?
i don’t want to know what the RDF one will be
On the cover of O’Reilly’s IPv6 Essentials is… a snail?! What were they thinking? [via wmf]…
you too can have Star Wars-level security
This weeks issue of Counterpane Crypto-Gram is pretty funny. Too bad there are so many broken links.In response to the…
OED Update
Got a very nice letter back from the OED about their weblog-related entries. they are still going through the reviewing…
a verry merry unbirthday
An exclusive interview with Morbus Iff, “blog” in the OED and a new version of Razor.
you’re losing whuffie, buddy
DW on XML complexity, six degrees of Cory Doctorow, The End of Cost and our accessible friends.
in the future, everything will be free
Digitized books, reality check-ups, triumphant anarchists and DotCommunists.
interrobang‽
An interrobang haiku by Jill, filled with “vivid imagery, unfolding drama of the love for the character, and magnificent satori-factor”.
not affiliated with Joan Baez
Patenting your son and serializing hash trees.
Switch to a Mac
Seattle Times on Public Domain and Apple’s new “Switch” ad campaign.
everybody’s doing the twist
Videoblogging, Audioblogging, Brother-watching, DRM helmets and words to avoid.
pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
Steve Jobs’s son, blogging tools, FTP-based sharing and weblog ordering.
It’s a fight to the…er…boredom?
click to add title: PowerPoint as God Intended [via BoingBoing] Gordon Mohr: Disney copy protection flaks been replaying TRON?…
Other
Today’s phenomic word: apertified. Mailing list haiku: please, no attachments / plain text, not HTML / trim off all you…
Other
James has a simple rant for you. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Humming is theft. What would life be…
AaronSw TV!
If you’re on Windows or Mac, grab QuickTime 6 and check out my live video feed! Watch me blog and…
Other
QuickTime Broadcaster is here. AaronSw TV is coming. Learn How BitTorrent Works. Headline News? Try Headline Haikus. [via jwz]…
Other
Don Norman: Toilet Paper algorithms [via Lee] Mark Bernstein: Alife 2: Choosing Weblog Topics Blogroots is on the way, apparently.…
My Social Network
Mark Pilgrim’s been on a roll lately, with one cool hack after another. First he’s been working on a system…
Valenti: “I know damn well I am infringing.”
House Hearing on Home Recording of Copyrighted Works. On his practice of recording TV shows: “I am taking somebody else’s…
Tim O’Reilly: OS X and the Next Big Thing
O’Reilly macdevcenter.com: Tim O’Reilly’s WWDC Keynote Manuscript. Also: Inventing the Future, The Network Really Is the Computer Foresight Gathering: Tim…
Public Access to the Public Domain
Raj Reddy wants to put a million books on the Internet. Brewster Kahle, the man behind The Internet Archive and…
Aaron Swartz (me@aaronsw.com)