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FedEx and ZapMail…

http://shirky.com/writings/zapmail.html Customer-owned Networks: ZapMail and the Telecommunications Industry First published January 7, 2003 on the ‘Networks, Economics, and Culture’ mailing list. By Clay Shirky To understand what’s going to happen...

Few Takers On CD Price Fixing Rebates..

Few Takers for CD Settlement Cash By Associated Press Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57111,00.html 09:15 AM Jan. 07, 2003 PT OLYMPIA, Washington — Suppose someone was handing out $20 bills and almost nobody wanted one? That’s...

MSN Messenger Down?

http://messenger.msn.com/default.asp?client=1 The page cannot be displayed There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed. Please try the following: * Open the messenger.msn.com home page, and then look for links to the information...

Moore’s Law Disputed

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_11/tuomi/index.html The Lives and Death of Moore’s Law by Ilkka Tuomi Moore’s Law has been an important benchmark for developments in microelectronics and information processing for over three decades. During this time,...

Why is IE faster? It cheats!

http://grotto11.com/blog/slash.html?+1039831658 Friday, December 13, 2002 18:07 – What makes IE so fast? Internet Explorer on Windows always seems either to run impossibly fast (page requests are fulfilled almost before the mouse button has returned to its...

Video iPod?

http://news.com.com/2100-1040-979204.html?tagý_lede1_hed Apple banks on digital media harvest By Joe Wilcox Staff Writer, CNET News.com January 6, 2003, 4:00 AM PT Apple Computer on Tuesday is expected to unveil a new portable product aimed at bolstering the...

The I in Internet..

I have long been an advocate of making the “i” lower case in “internet”. To capitalize it, as Joseph Turow insists, is to imply that it is a place, thing, or brand; which can be controlled, owned or managed. It’s not. In fact, I would...

Nine Coolest Albums of 2002…

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/editorial/ the_nine_coolest_albums_of_2002.shtml The Nine Coolest Albums of 2002 Brad Barrish, 18 December 2002 If there’s one thing I know about music it’s that you can never be too ahead of everyone else. There’s nothing...

Veni, Vici, Vidi: Latin Lives On..

http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,580910,00.html Veni, vidi, vici: how Latin lives on Latin has survived the fall of empire, the rise of the vernacular and the incomprehension of generations of schoolchildren. In this exclusive online essay from the...

Study: Spam Cost U.S. Corporations $8.9B

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncidR8&e=7&cidR8&u=/ap/ 20030103/ap_on_hi_te/techbits_spam Study: Spam Cost U.S. Corporations $8.9B Fri Jan 3, 7:51 AM ET Add Technology – AP to My Yahoo! By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer NEW...