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From BBC News, Berners-Lee on the read/write web: “In August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the first website. Fourteen years on, he tells BBC Newsnight’s Mark Lawson how blogging is closer to his original idea about a read/write web.”
The first excerpt from John Battelle’s new book, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, is available on his blog.
FCC Adopts Policy Statement on Broadband Internet Access. News Release: Word Martin Press Statement: Word
As a follow-up to my July 11, 2005 posting, Wiretapping In-Flight Passenger Internet and Wireless Communications, see comments (17 pages, PDF) filed today with the FCC by CDT and EPIC stipulating their position that “the proposal raises constitutional concerns and could impose burdensome design mandates on emerging technology.”
As a follow-up to my May 16, 2005 posting, New York Times Announces New Online Fee-Based Service, this news yesterday that the Times will merge its print and online operations.
The Press Gazette reports on the expanding global consumer embrace of digital edition formats available for major newspapers and market/industry papers by subscription, including the Financial Times, the Washington Post and Investor’s Business Daily.
Kathy Biehl’s new After Hours column on the 2005 Summer Fancy Food Show includes recommendations on several dozen outstanding new products, from condiments to snacks, beverages and sweets, that provide succor, much needed diversion and no doubt some smiles (plus the added bonus of supporting entrepreneurs who are producing unique, artisanal foods).
Congress Crafts National Tech Recycling Plan – “Bipartisan effort studies for standard way to dispose of obsolete gadgets safely.” Related reference: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, Subcommittee on Superfund and Waste Management, An Oversight Hearing on Electronics Waste, July 26, 2005. Link to member statements and witness testimony. Electronic Waste Responsibilities Loom …
An article in today’s New York Times spotlights a website called HopStop.com, an online transit guide that “provides door-to-door subway and bus directions and maps for New York City.”
“The focus of this white paper is to describe the basic workings of a new capability, the Microsoft® Phishing Filter, that will be included in the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7. The Microsoft Phishing Filter will not only help provide consumers with a dynamic system of warning and protection against potential phishing attacks, but …
We Are the Web – “The Netscape IPO wasn’t really about dot-commerce. At its heart was a new cultural force based on mass collaboration. Blogs, Wikipedia, open source, peer-to-peer – behold the power of the people…In fewer than 4,000 days, we have encoded half a trillion versions of our collective story and put them in …
Forbes Best of The Web Directory includes recommendations on more than 3,000 websites and blogs, on topics that include investing, health, e-commerce, management, travel and careers.
