P2P
There goes the neighbourhood
The BBC reports that AOL is now going to include blogging software in their basic package. Does this mean the end of the blog as we know it?
Announcements
BAILII’s Birthday
The website British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) is now five years old. Technollama has been away down in London to attend the celebrations, which were attended by a good number of very important people. Congratulations to BAILII, and Read more…
Blogging
Blogger in trouble over blog
The BBC reports that stewardess (sorry, air hostess) Ellen Simonetti, known in blogging circles as Queen of the Sky, has been suspended for posing for photographs that appeared in her blog. She is wearing a Delta Airlines uniform and is Read more…
Off-topic
The Lancet estimates 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths
(Link requires registration, again, use Bugmenot). An article in the influential medical journal The Lancet estimates that the war in Iraq has produced an excess mortality of 100,000 civilians. The estimates are the highest yet, but the journal editors have Read more…
Creative Commons
Creative Commons article in The Guardian
Creative Commons keeps making its unstoppable stride into the mainstream with the publication of yet another newspaper article. The article concentrates on music, as most of these do, but it is a rather good attempt to explain what the movement Read more…
Globalisation
Judge Cameron Lecture now online
Judge Cameron’s excellent lecture at the University of Edinburgh is now online.
Governance
More about Bush’s website international blocking
The Register comments on the strange blocking of international addresses by Bush’s website. For one, it is thought that this may try to prevent attacks from Denial-of-Service attacks. Could it be simply that Bush doesn’t know that the rest of Read more…
Cybercrime
Spammer trial begins
Three people are being charged in Virginia for breaking the state’s anti-spam legislation. They could get up to fifteen years sentence if convicted. We don’t like spammers, but 15 years? Seems a bit excessive! And no Monty Python jokes please.
Governance
Bush doesn’t like them foreigners!
I guess it is because they have long unpronounceable names, and they don’t clap him adoringly at the UN.
e-commerce
Interesting eBay case
Grace v eBay is a new case in California (where else?) that is posing some interesting questions about intermediary liability, unfair contract clauses and online defamation. The case was brought by Roger Grace, an eBay seller who was subjected to Read more…