http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-07-11T14:50:17-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/11/open_access_to_windows_antispyware_lists_recommended.php Ed Bott has some excellent questions about and recommendations for Microsoft's anti-spyware policies (Dear Microsoft: Why Should We Trust You to Detect Spyware?).Publish the Windows AntiSpyware database. Put it on the Web. Make it searchable. Provide a description of why... 6320@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-11T14:50:17-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/06/stifling_innovation_not_working_out_well_for_cellular_providers.php Business Week's Blogspotting has some interesting evidence of the failure of the closed network model for cellular service (Mobile Internet: a Story of Stagnation).What can we gather from this? The mobile industry, which has been breathlessly awaiting revenue growth from... 6302@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-06T14:36:34-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/06/the_new_blue_book.php Michael Madison has a short collection of links on various changes in the legal academe, including a link to a review of the new edition of the Blue Book for legal citation (Blue Booking and the Academy). Read the whole... 6300@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-06T13:26:10-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/04/wikihow_responds_to_criticism_goes_creative_commons.php A month ago, I was the recipient of a pitch for WikiHow, a "a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest how-to manual" based on the Wikipedia model. I blasted them because they had maintained the restrictive copyright licensing... 6290@http://importance.corante.com/ Open Access 2005-07-04T14:08:24-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/04/visions_of_the_future_from_aol_circa_1995.php This is almost unfair. Susan Crawford pulls an admiring profile of AOL from 1995 and basically allows it to make a fool of itself (Someone to Watch Over Me).Case believes that Microsoft and the Internet players are not going to... 6286@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-04T12:30:42-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/07/03/defending_the_commons_in_india.php Nice essay on the public domain in The Hindu (Pirates of the Commons).CONTROLLING access to literary works to prevent copies from being made is a practice that goes back millennia. The Royal Library of Alexandria was so notoriously difficult to... 6277@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-07-03T10:33:31-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/27/court_overturns_ninth_cir_upholds_fcc_ruling_in_brand_x_case.php via SCOTUS Blog:In a 6-3 ruling, the Court decided that cable operators offering high-speed Internet access have no legal duty to open their service to customers of all Internet service providers. In the cable case, the Court upheld the decision... 6228@http://importance.corante.com/ Telecomm 2005-06-27T07:36:46-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/27/where_ill_be_reading_about_grokster_and_brand_x.php Where I'll be reading about the decision:How Appealing is certain to have many links to coverageSCOTUS Blog is hosting a discussion: SCOTUS Blog: Discussion Archives: GroksterPicker MobBlogWilliam Patry Copyright BlogCopyfightFreedom to TinkerThe Wall Street Journal's Grokster Roundtable (free to the... 6227@http://importance.corante.com/ Copyright 2005-06-27T07:25:50-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/24/grokster_brand_x_issues_of_openness_its_all_about_the_distribution_baby.php Prof. Michael Madison points to the debate over Brand X that is starting on Picker MobBlog (MobBlawg LiftOff). [Btw, Picker calls his site MobBlog. I like Madison's MobBlawg better.] Michael agrees with one of the MobBlawggers that Brand X may... 6199@http://importance.corante.com/ Network Law 2005-06-24T12:32:23-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/23/closed_satellite_networks.php Democracy in Media harshes on satellite for being inherently a closed network (Why Satellite Isn’t Compatible With an Open Network World). Read the whole thing. There is certainly some truth in the claim (i.e., two-way communication is a bitch). And... 6191@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-23T20:58:03-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/21/blast_from_the_microsoft_antitrust_trial_past.php Thomas Penfield Jackson was the federal judge in charge of the Microsoft Antitrust Case until he was removed. Five years later, C|Net News reports on a recent speech he gave concerning the case (Former Judge Defends his Bid to Break... 6145@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-21T11:46:33-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/21/die_cellphone_die_die_die.php Paul Resnikoff of Digital Music News muses about the future of the iPod in a world where cellular phones have increasing music carrying capabilities (Resnikoff's Parting Shot: The Future of the iPod). He doesn't think the iPod has much to... 6140@http://importance.corante.com/ Tools 2005-06-21T08:51:11-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/20/what_should_the_purpose_of_public_broadcasting_be.php Jeff Jarvis discusses the ongoing controversy over severe cuts in the federal budget for public broadcasting and offers his own solutions (Saving Public Broadcasting). I'm not so sure many of them would work, but I do agree that we need... 6111@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-20T09:27:47-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/16/google_print_not_about_reading_books.php Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, critiqes Google Print, arguing that it is more catalog than library (Is Google Print Real?).[Google has] replaced much of the actual "library" qualities of Google Print with "catalog" properties. . .they are now actually... 6081@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-16T15:18:50-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/06/13/congressman_opposing_municiple_telecom_will_benefit_financially.php On the Huffington Post, Josh Silver has an interesting post about the financial background of Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), who has introduced a bill essentially banning municiple telecom (Another Corrupt Congressman from Texas: The Next DeLay?).Sessions stands to gain as... 6028@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-06-13T09:53:19-08:00