FTC and International Agencies Announce ãOperation Secure Your Serverä. The United States Federal Trade Commission and 36 additional agencies in 26 countries have announced ãOperation Secure Your Server,ä an international effort to reduce the flow of unsolicited commercial e-mail by urging organizations to close ãopen relaysä and ãopen proxies.ä[see FTC Press Release] The ITU Strategy […]

Experts say U.S. Telecoms Act set to be rewritten. Total Telecom reports that Telcos and end-users have received their first warnings that a re-write of the U.S. Telecommunications Act of 1996 [pdf] is on the horizon. “The Act mainly dealt with how the Bells would get into long distance and how the long-distance carriers would […]

Wikipedia Hits 200,000 Articles. Congratulations to everyone involved in the Wikipedia project, which now has more than 200,000 articles in its main encyclopedia. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] —— i have to go edit some of these, i surely do…

Home Medical Kit. Centralizes emergency tools [Cool Tools] —- be prepared… some people think i'm too much of a boy scout, but i think this is a good idea.

Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of winter [Ananova: Quirkies] ——- darn it, i really don't l ike the cold very much.

Gapminder. Gapminder is a truly amazing site of visualizations of stunning facts and statistics. Thanks for the link David! [Joi Ito's Web]

Technology and Worker Efficiency. Researchers seem confident that technology has made American workers more efficient. Now some think they even know why. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Business] [A blog doesn't need a clever name]

New England linebacker Matt Chatham leveled the man as he ran from security personnel. The man, who had the name of a gambling Web site scribbled across his chest, was hogtied and carried off the field by police. ——- i think two things about this: a. it is somewhat unfair for a linebacker to take […]

not really, just threw out my 2003 Badtz Maru calendar, but cleaning the office does bring back memories, i have alot of information from when i was director of vtonline back in '98-2000, and rid myself of most of the day to day files, keeping on the most important and relevant files. I also found […]

Copyright transfer: read and sign, right? Wait! ….. Professor Stuart M. Shieber of Harvard University has posted two sample Alternative Copyright Assignments on his web site. One transfers copyright to the publisher but retains other non-commercial usage rights; the other is a license to publish the work but keeps copyright and all other IP rights […]