July 31, 2000

US Postal Service Email

from Slashdot referencing an MSNBC article about the US Postal Service’s plans to offer “free e-mail addresses to all 120 million of the nation’s residential addresses.” … great quote, “the most efficient spam delivery tool ever created.”

July 29, 2000

Jello Biafra for President?

one of the things i remember most about seeing the DK’s live is how much Jello Biafra likes to rant … and now with his presidential run behind him he’s addressing the “hacker community” with great quotes like this one,

“Don’t hate the media, become the media …”

wow! despite the fact that i never thought i would see jello quoted in a technology publication, i still find myself agreeing with a few of his views …

July 26, 2000

Napster Ordered to Shut Down

i’m very interested to see what this is going to prove … Napster Ordered to Shut Down “Napster, the controversial file-sharing service that has been the scourge of the music industry since it was launched late last year, has been ordered shut down.” …

July 26, 2000

Skeptical About Microsoft dotNet

skeptical article about Microsoft.net … good quote: “And don’t discount startups, despite their early woes. Microsoft says it’s creating the next generation Internet, but by the time it gets there, those young’uns might be on deep space nine.”

July 5, 2000

Napster Fuels P2P Uproar

everything’s coming up napster … ZDNet: News: Napster fuels peer-to-peer uproar: “Venture capitalists can’t jump on the latest fad fast enough”

July 5, 2000

from slashdot:

from slashdot: jon katz’s second in a series of essays on Open Media Take Two: The Sensemakers
some interesting quotes:
“Sensemaking — organizing and transmitting data via the distributed architecture of the Net — is the big idea behind the rise of Open Media.”
“Connecting information consumers with information may become one of the defining elements of successful media in the 21st Century.”
“…help people keep up with the information most relevant to their interests”

July 3, 2000

TAZ Servers

TAZ Servers and the Rewebber Network Enabling Anonymous Publishing on the World Wide Web by Ian Goldberg and David Wagner

July 3, 2000

Eternity Service

The Eternity Service

July 3, 2000

Publius Web Publishing System

Publius is a Web publishing system that is highly resistant to censorship and provides publishers with a high degree of anonymity. Publius was the pen name used by the authors of the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. This collection of 85 articles, published pseudonymously in New York State newspapers form October 1787 through May 1788, was influential in convincing New York voters to ratify the proposed United States constitution. Publius Home Page

June 28, 2000

Yahoo Acquires eGroups

wow! “Yahoo! to Acquire eGroups” … here’s an interesting quote from the press release … “The acquisition combines the Web’s largest online community with a leading provider of email group communications.” … hmm, the web’s largest community? i wonder if AOL could dispute that statement …