Rough Drafts

This looks like a good introduction to the semantic web and RDF.

Music sales are down 10% in the first half of 2002, compared with the same period last year, according to a survey from the RIAA. ‘The study found that consumers who say they are downloading more say they are purchasing less music “by more than 2 to 1,” the RIAA said.’ (paid subscription req’d to […

Copyright readings is a useful, ongoing bibliography of articles on copyright, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and related legislation.

Just because no blog would be complete without a link to it: Newsweek’s Steven Levy on Living in the Blog-osphere.

Thanks to xian on blogistan, I’ve been reading up on old Jon Udell columns: Udell does an in-depth reflection on Userland 8. Udell’s story, from last year, does a great job of explaining how weblogs can be used to marry knowledge and project management.

How many weblogs are, there, really? Who knows?

Memo from Jakob Nielsen to Web designers: For pity’s sake, please stop using tiny, fixed-size fonts on your pages and CSS (cascading style sheet) designs. Thank you, Jakob!

Cascading style sheets: Don’t be afraid. Dave Raggett explains CSS in a clear, common-sensical way.

The Invisible Library catalogs imaginary books.

DOJ to prosecute individual P2P file traders? Maybe.

Alex Golub has a brilliant critique of Lawrence Lessig’s recent OSCON speech — complete with the song that Lessig should have sung. Even Lessig commends it. And here’s Alex’s followup note, with a very pointed comment on Lessig vs. Winer.

A startup spam-filtering company is using haiku in email headers as a way of stopping spam. The idea is that you can set up your email program to reject all email that doesn’t contain this haiku in the header… but if spammers try to use the haiku, they can be sued for copyright and trademark […]