- Karl Jones does a monthly web-essay. His theme for May is Karl Jones: Green. Check it out while I'm taking my break next week.
- States outlaw spam - or at least try to. The initial article is only so-so, but it links to three or four other good articles.
- There are No three-letter .com names left. At all.
- Web Firms May Vastly Inflate Claims of 'Hits'. And people are surprised about it?
- Dot-coms are ready to interview real stiffs. Post the resume for a dead guy, and see what happens.
- The Googling of America - what can people find out about you? Quite a bit if you use the Internet as much as I do.
- SGI to sell Cray to Tera for $21.5 million. SGI bought Cray for $740 million in 1996.
- Dan Gillmor says Common sense rules in an arrogant suit as TicketBastard gets slapped down for trying to prohibit deep links. Dan also updates the patent situation and the SEC's plan to monitor Internet postings.
- Keep a Web journal, get fired ... or worse. Probably not going to happen to me. My boss is pretty understanding about this sort of thing.
- Hacking credit cards is preposterously easy says the Register. This is a very good article about the real dangers out there.
- Nuke-proof Napster - why the distributed nature of the net is a good thing, and how many internet companies just don't get it.