Freedom to Read.
Rep. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) has introduced a “Freedom to Read” bill [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.1157:] that would restore privacy to the patrons of bookstores and libraries. The ACLU supports it [http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=12607&c=110], and you sh
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Anarchist in the Library.
From a blogjournal called eyeteeth run by Paul Schmelzer comes this interesting interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan [http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/2003_04_20_eyeteeth_archive.html#92977561], intellectual property expert and communications professor at NYU.
Microdoc news.
A nifty site called Microdoc News [http://microdocs-news.info/] picked up my piece about file recovery using the Google cache today, as part of a short piece about the cache’s pros and cons [http://www.microdocs-news.info/newsGoogle/2003/04/22.html#a544].
CIO: Build It Free.
My article on open-source development tools [http://www.cio.com/archive/041503/et_article.html] has just been published by CIO Magazine.
Google saved my ass.
I discovered a new use for Google: Web page recovery service for hapless webmasters.
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Build It Free
Open-source development tools offer low-cost, high-quality options. BY DYLAN TWENEY ANDRIG MILLER first got excited about Java’s possibilities in March 1998, when Sun Microsystems released the initial version of the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) specification. But it was more than four years before Mil
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World Poetry Day on tinywords.
On March 21, more than 60 poets from around the world (India, Ireland, Trinidad, Australia, the U.S., Mexico, and more) submitted their haiku online, and I read them all aloud at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, thanks to a solid WiFi connection.
CA web site scandal.
In its online portal project, the state of California paid one vendor $3.2 million and another $8.4 million without comparing prices or analyzing other factors, as called for in state guidelines.
High-Tech Haiku.
Tomorrow, which is the first day of spring and also World Poetry Day, tinywords will be hosting the first ever world-wide, WiFi, ad-hoc, open-mike haiku reading.
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Two by Tweney.
I’ve got not one, but two articles in the April issue of PC World.
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Now They’re After You: Music Cops Target Users
From the April 2003 issue of PC World magazine Millions of people download copyrighted songs and even movies from the Internet with little fear of being caught. That’s about to change. “[The music industry is] starting to move down the food chain,” says Lawrence Hertz, a partner at New York law firm
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