Month: June 2003

Heath Row has the best set of notes I've seen from the weblogger conference. Wow.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Virus Guns for Banks' Passwords. Experts found the Web addresses of more than 1,200 financial institutions buried inside BugBear.B's malicious code. Now the FBI is investigating what is believed to be the first Net attack aimed at a single economic sector. [Wired News]

Meet the 40 Most Wired Companies. These masters of innovation, technology and strategic vision are reshaping the global economy. By Kevin Kelleher from Wired magazine. [Wired News]

Free Broadband at Wyndham. My tip of the year: sign up for this free Wyndham program and get free broadband: I'm working on an article involving hotels and other hot spots, and spoke to the VP of catering and meeting services at Wyndham Hotels and Resorts yesterday. He confirmed that Wyndham's affinity program, Wyndham By… Continue reading Free Broadband at Wyndham

The other shoe drops at heels.com. Law Offices of Erik J. Heels In short, I now believe that a weblog can be the main publishing platform for any website, including a law firm website. And weblog software is much more powerful than traditional web publishing software. So I have retired my old website home page… Continue reading The other shoe drops at heels.com

ReplayTVs Regress But Still Rock!. ReplayTV Puts Ad Skipping on Pause “The company said its upcoming ReplayTV 5500 boxes, which are expected to be released in August, will not contain the Send Show and Automatic Commercial Advance tools as the company tries to 'address the concerns of copyright holders….' A representative for ReplayTV's new owner… Continue reading ReplayTVs Regress But Still Rock!

RSS Aggregators Gaining Ground!. Should the big pubs be paying attention to RSS? Just ask Andy Rhinehart at GoUpstate.com, home of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal newspaper. Last year Andy led the pack by offering an RSS feed for their top news stories. This year he enhanced the SHJ's status by creating a feed for their classified ads, and… Continue reading RSS Aggregators Gaining Ground!

The WASTE affair.  Once upon a time (1998) I prototyped a P2P system based on two simple ideas: A local webserver implemented in a scripting language. Browser-based access to local (or remote) apps. The possibilities inherent in this architecture were, and are, astonishing. Since it was a Web-style system, it was obvious — yet still… Continue reading The WASTE affair

EE Times: U.S. high-speed access nears 20 million subscribers. High-speed Internet access connecting U.S. homes and businesses increased 23 percent during the second half of 2002, according to government figures released Tuesday. The Federal Communications Commission said there were 19.9 million high-speed lines as of the end of 2002. [Tomalak's Realm]

The American Conservative May 19, 2003 issue – Surveillance State. Since September 11, a flood of federal legislation has reduced American freedom without increasing our security. Perhaps you've visited your local library to keep speed with the War on Terror: borrowed a few books on Islamic fundamentalism or did web research on biochemical weapons. Beware.… Continue reading Surveillance State