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A team of researchers from the School of Information Management and Systems University of California, Berkeley released a new study today, How Much Information? 2003, that chronicles the information explosion over the past several years. According to the team, during the period of 1999 to 2002, “new stored information grew about 30% a year.” Additional …
CircleID reports that a letter to ICANN, seeking increased privacy for the wealth of personal data available in the WHOIS database, has been signed by a coalition of 50 organizations, including the American Library Association (ALA). The ICANN Meeting is currently underway in Carthage, Tunisia through October 31, and a link to the agenda is …
According to a new Nielsen//NetRatings study (link not available, and commissioned by Newsstand), “users of so-called e-editions of print publications are shown to be more affluent, better educated and heavier users of the Internet than the average online user.” [Link thanks to dc] See also this pbs.org interview by Terence Smith that “examines the growing …
Telecommunications: Issues Related to Competition and Subscriber Rates in the Cable Television Industry. GAO-04-8, October 24. Highlights. “Competition leads to lower cable rates and improved quality. Competition from a wide-based company is limited to a very few markets. However, where available, cable rates are substantially lower (by 15 percent) than in markets without this competition.”
On October 15, Project Gutenberg marked a milestone in the publication of free ebooks online, with this link to the Magna Carta. The pioneering project has now published 10,000 ebooks since its inception in 1971. [Slashdot]
Yesterday Judge Michael J. Davis of the United States District Court of Minnesota released a 22 page decision, Vonage Holdings Corporation, Civil No. 03-5287 (MJD/JGL) Plaintiff, v. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, following his October 8 bench ruling. From the Judge’s summary: “Plaintiff Vonage Holdings Corporation (“Vonage“) provides a service that permits voice communications over …
United States Patent 6,632,248, Customization of network documents by accessing customization information on a server computer using uniquie (note: the word unique is misspelled in the patent document itself) user identifiers. “The customization options may include a wide variety of information such as, for example, network addresses (e.g., URLs) of a user’s favorite sites, types …
From the website of California State Assemblyman Joe Simitian: Assembly Bill 68 – Online Privacy Protection The Online Privacy and Disclosure Act of 2003 requires commercial Web site operators that collect personal information online from California residents to post a conspicuous privacy policy stating what information they collect and with whom they share the information. …
Today the Supreme Court agreed to review, again, the appeal of the Child Online Protection Act. Links to resources on the Act, as well as related resources, are available in my August 13 posting, DOJ Appeals COPA Decision to Supreme Court.
A recent GartnerG2 survey: Print Publishers Are Uncertain About Their Digital Future [Link]
Weblog of the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI): “The Global Internet Policy Initiative supports adoption in developing countries of the legal and policy framework for an open and democratic Internet. The project works with local stakeholders in consultative, coalition-based efforts to promote the principles of a decentralized, accessible, user-controlled, and market-driven Internet. [thanks to Robert …
This speech, The Beginning of the End of the Internet?” Discrimination, Closed Networks, and The Future of Cyberspace, was delivered October 9 by FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps, at an event sponsored by the New America Foundation, Washington, DC. The Internet …”may be dying because entrenched interests are positioning themselves to control the Internets choke-points …
