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Mon, 08 Jul 2002 21:36:00 GMT

News.Com: Gnutella pioneer Gene Kan dies. Ouch.

Mon, 08 Jul 2002 21:36:18 GMT

Nick Denton says it best. \"Please let this be a sick joke: a eulogy for Gene Kan of Gnutella, on Yaroslav Faybishenko's site. Update: it was a sick joke, but by God. Gene's funeral was on Friday.\" Cory Doctorow's remembrance of Gene Kan.

Mon, 08 Jul 2002 23:54:06 GMT

US Dept of Commerce: "On July 17, 2002, the Technology Administration will host a Public Workshop on Digital Entertainment and Rights Management. This Workshop will bring together leaders from the information technology and content industries to address the status of technical standards that provide the framework necessary to enable legitimate digital media distribution and the present state of strengths, weaknesses and availability of current and imminent technological solutions to protect digital content, barriers that are inhibiting movies, music and games from coming online. In preparation for this workshop, the Technology Administration invites public comment."

Mon, 08 Jul 2002 21:29:49 GMT

Newhouse: "To the cable TV company that provides his high-speed Internet connection, Tait became a thief when he installed a home wireless network in his Manhattan apartment."

Mon, 08 Jul 2002 20:49:19 GMT

I read on Manton Reece's site that the engraving on my iPod is customized. "Let's not limit the dreams of people who use our tools." I thought it was Apple's motto. Sounds like something I might have said. Interesting. Postscript: I did say it, and thanks to Rogers for organizing the iPod gift. It was hard to get it started up, but now it's a really nice thing to have. It's got all my music on it. I'm still going through the songs in alphabetic order. The other day it played Fuck The Police by Public Enemy, followed by Funeral for a Friend by Elton John. The two songs couldn't be more different, but somehow seemed to belong with each other.

Mon, 08 Jul 2002 21:22:51 GMT

Amy Wohl: "We've had at least one vendor this year (not Apple) who failed to invite us to an important briefing 'because we wrote negative things about them.'"

Mon, 08 Jul 2002 14:23:47 GMT

Reuters: EBay to Buy PayPal in $1.5 Billion Stock Deal.

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Raph Levien: Attack Resistant Trust Metric Metadata Howto.

Mon, 08 Jul 2002 15:07:07 GMT

Jon Udell: "DRM has its place in the world. But I wouldn't sacrifice the open architecture of the PC on the altar of DRM. It's not the thing holding e-books back. Active paper is the real technical hurdle. And beyond that, there's a purely intellectual challenge. As more and more people write for the web, publishers will have to work harder (and smarter) to create content that's worth paying for."

Mon, 08 Jul 2002 15:01:44 GMT

Emmanuel D�carie: "FrontierMonitor is a Perl daemon installed on a OS X machine hosting a Frontier or/and Radio servers. FrontierMonitor will try to launch the Frontier/Radio servers if they are down and will send you a warning by email while loging the event in a log file."