19. May, 2003 - one month to MacHack
- Last night we put up the new machack site with the unstoppable theme. I think this is the first year I’ve been involved in much of the planning for MacHack, and it looks like it’s going to be a pretty good conference. If you’re a Mac geek who hasn’t registered yet, why the heck haven’t you?
- Dave Winer sums up the reason weblogs are so prevalent in google searches with If you want to be in Google, you gotta be on the Web. Nice work, Dave. This goes for companies like Logitech, too. They need to have a fixed URL for their Pocket Digital Camera if the want the ranking for their page to appear higher than my gripe about it. What Google Leaves Out is a study of exactly what it is google is indexing that might be interesting. [scripting]
- Citizen Reporters Make the News in Korea, with OhmyNews, a web-newspaper written by just about anyone who wants to. It’s interesting that OhmyNews [Korean language] seems to be a lot more successful than IndyMedia is. Is it just because seventy percent of Koreans have broadband? Dan Gillmor’s got more, but it’ll be hidden behind a for-pay firewall in a week or two, so you’d better read it now.
- Yeah, we’re probably living in a Surveillance State now.
Since September 11, a flood of federal legislation has reduced American freedom without increasing our security.
But is it really a surprise to anyone at this point? [endwar]
- The Strib has Questions and answers about the new conceal-and-carry gun law. The new law goes into effect May 28th. [strib]
- What If SCO Is Right? What if Linux does include proprietary code? But what if SCO unintentionally released that very code under the GPL?
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Last updated on Mon, 19 May 2003 07:40:43.