Today's linksMonday, March 05, 2007 by Dave Winer. Maryam and Robert announce Scoble 3.0, coming to Stanford in Sept. Mike at TechDirt on the new RIAA-inspired royalty for webcasts. "The new rates pretty much decimate a large portion of the industry." Washington Post: "The Patent and Trademark Office is starting a pilot project that will not only post patent applications on the Web and invite comments but also use a community rating system designed to push the most respected comments to the top of the file, for serious consideration by the agency's examiners. A first for the federal government, the system resembles the one used by Wikipedia, the popular user-created online encyclopedia." |