Conflict News from Wired News – House Endorses Snoop Bill. Just hours after the Senate approved its version of the anti-terrorism bill, House legislators followed suit by voting 339-79 to ease limits on wiretapping and Internet monitoring. The big difference: The House attached an expiration date to the “USA Act”. The wiretap sections expire in… Continue reading Wired News
Month: October 2001
Dave Winer
Dave Winer: Yesterday I asked what news is being masked by the latest outrage. Here's one thing. The Congress is legislating big stuff, out of view of the public. Not a single report about this on the TV networks. [Scripting News]
Text::Outline
Simon Kittle's Text::Outline Perl module renders OPML outlines, supporting nearly all the same rules that Radio and Manila support. [Frontier News]
NY Times
NY Times: “The MobileStar Network Corporation, a driving force in offering wireless Internet access in public places, said yesterday that it had laid off its entire work force and would sell its assets if it could not find a buyer to continue its service.” MobileStar runs the Internet service at Starbuck's. [Scripting News]
Central Tracking Services Joins with Topaz3 to make Big Tracks in Vehicle Tracking Industry
Central Tracking Services Joins with Topaz3 to make Big Tracks in Vehicle Tracking Industry. ComStar AVL services combines Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) technology with proprietary vehicle tracking transponders… [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Kick some Zope tyres
Kick some Zope tyres. The new www.zope.org site, new.zope.org, is under development. Visit and kick the tyres a bit. It's based on the CMF. If we're lucky, sooner rather than later new.zope.org will become www.zope.org. (More because we'll get more CMF docs, we hope, than because the current zope.org site is dreadful – it isn't.)… Continue reading Kick some Zope tyres
Zope Books
Zope Books. Yesterday should have seen the release of Zope: web application construction kit. The Beehive Zope book doesn't yet have a publication date more specific than this month. [ZopeNewbies]
Yahoo News
Yahoo News – Sun Micro CEO Sees More Support for National ID: Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems Inc., said Thursday his long-held belief the United States needs a national identity system has gained a lot of traction since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. “Absolute anonymity… Continue reading Yahoo News
Learning Communities:
Learning Communities: – David Carter-Tod provides some down-to-earth insight into the K-Blog issue: “I think that we're talking about an expanded feature set for weblogs that integrate more closely into what you might call a learning community. These include things like better meta-data, searching, better two-way e-mail integration, roles management, etc. Weblogs should be a… Continue reading
How the terror trail went unseen
How the terror trail went unseen. Investigations into how the terror attackers managed to evade detection are producing the unusual situation that statements from the FBI have become more trustworthy than those in the press. In two successive briefings, senior FBI officials have stated that the agency has as yet found no evidence that the… Continue reading How the terror trail went unseen