A Good Summary of Internet Law in 2003. Recommended. Doug Isenberg's review of Internet law developments in 2003 is a useful review of a busy year in Internet law. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Robert Scoble, Tom Peters and Me. Tom Peters has a new book called “Re-Imagine!” If you are looking for a WHAM! to help you take a fresh look at all your assumptions about business, this book is the place. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Big Gains for Internet Retailers. This holiday season will go down as the most successful yet for e-commerce retailers like EBGames Online, led by Seth P. Levy. By Bob Tedeschi. [New York Times: Technology]

Parents facing fine for holidays during term time. Parents in Scotland could be fined as much as £1,000 or be sent to prison for up to a month – or both – if they take their children on holiday during term time, it emerged yesterday. [The Scotsman]

The wardriver and the cop. Doc Searls often writes about how his modus operandi for acquiring Internet access while traveling is to cruise residential neighborhoods running MacStumbler, which finds wireless access points and speaks to you in different voices depending on whether the AP has WEP turned on or off. Jeremy Zawodny recently wrote about [...]

Marin Independent-Journal, CA -Many privacy advocates alarmed by rise in online databases. Edward Socorro had a good thing going as a sales manager with Hilton Hotels Corp. But not long after he started, a company hired by Hilton to do background checks on new employees reported that Socorro once spent six months in jail. In reality, Socorro [...]

Truck Stop Wi-Fi Growing. Truckers are really enjoying using Wi-Fi at truck stops: They use it to keep in touch with family but also to get directions or information about road construction or to send photos to bosses about goods that may be damaged at pick up. This story mentions Flying J, Truckstop.net, and TravelCenters [...]

Wired News: The Fantasy and Reality of 2004. So we asked a dozen experts in fields that are apt to touch all our lives this year — privacy, defense, spam, security, open source, technology development, life online and human rights — to answer this question: “What do you wish would happen in 2004, and what [...]

Quick, Practical Tips toThwart ID Theft.  How You Can Thwart ID Thieves quickly cuts to the chase and enumerates eight free or low-cost ways to protect yourself against ID theft. For more resources, see my other postings on this topic here.  [beSpacific]

A History of Strange Bounces, a Future of the Unexpected. It's not always the obvious things that change the course of the world. Sometimes they are small, or overlooked. By John Schwartz. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]