Monthly Archives: August 2008

Stumbling into a “blicki”

I’ve joked about a “blicki” in the past (a merge of a blog and a wiki), and browsing around looking for the answer to one of life’s little technology questions, I stumbled by this post by Jim Groom of UMW. It looks like they’ve been doing some great stuff with WordPress, and have now integrated

Correction, of sorts

PGP creator Philip Zimmermann posted the (lack of an) issue he had with Sen. Biden and the encryption bill. Declan quotes me, creating the impression I criticized Biden for some legislation that Biden introduced in 1991. Declan’s quote from me is out of context because it does not make it clear that I never mentioned

Constructing Biden’s Laws

Declan McCullagh gives a detailed overview of Joe Biden’s positions on a variety of tech laws. He brings out much of what I expected–there may be cause for some worry on a variety of fronts like copyright, privacy, and the “war on terror.” Whether you agree or disagree with his politics, there were a number

State of the Newspaper Industry

A couple of longer reads that might be of interest to any newspaper or online news buffs. Out of Print (New Yorker): This is a bit older, but I just got around to reading it today. An interesting historical account of the role of a newspaper in democracy and how the Internet is changing all