10. May, 2003 - I don’t seem to have an eLife, either

• Don’t write off the net as far as good writing goes–it’s not all just h4×0rz writing L337–there’s actually some pretty good stuff out there, and having websites is probably helping a lot of people write regularly, which helps make more good writing. The biggest problem now is finding the good writing. [boing boing]
• Google to fix blog noise problem. Me, I don’t know that there’s really a problem, but then I’ve always had pretty good luck searching with google. And where would sites like mine that are part blog, and part long-term content get classified? It’ll be interesting to see how it comes out. [scripting]
• Blogger forces Irish domain registry into sunlight, which means that folks will finally be able to see why it is that .ie domains cost about 10 times what .com domains do. [scripting]
• People For Internet Responsibility announces TRIPOLI, a rewrite of the email infrastructure of the ’net in order to allow individuals more control over their email, rather than ISPs, so everyone can set their own tolerance for spam. It’s an ambitious project, but they seem to have thought about many of the tougher issues, and it would be nice if it can get implemented.
• The Segway drives Woz to drink! Cool. It’s part of the SEG STORIES part of Woz’s website.
• Music Industry Poised for Another Bad Move, moving more toward copy-protected silvery discs that only work in some CD players (they’re not CDs–and last I heard, Philips is still standing tough on that), which decreases demand by up to 76%. It decreases my demand for ’em by 100%.

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