From the archive

December 2004

184 posts

How To Make a Podcast

Looks like Phil is using some of the same gear I am :) [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

Silicon Valley AdWare Company’s Latest Tricks

Silicon Valley AdWare Company's Latest Tricks The energetic Ben Edelman has uncovered new outrages from a company called Claria, which makes one of the obnoxious "adware" products that finds its way onto PCs. The click through "agreement" is just abysmal, Edelman observes. Quote: "You agree that you will not use, or encourage others to use, any unauthorized means for the

2600 offering RSS Feeds

2600.com is "now making available an RSS feed for our readers' convenience. It contains the headlines for articles posted to our website, and in addition can be used to automate downloading of our radio programs Off the Hook and Off the Wall." Bing! [via Scripting News]

Lycos Europe Pulls Make Love Not Spam Antispam Screensaver

Following a major digital brouhaha, Lycos Europe has turned off it's antispam screensaver, named Make Love Not Spam. The service's website urges users to stay tuned; however, it's unclear whether the service will be restarted, after savvy users realized what the service really did. Yesterday, Netcraft, an Internet traffic monitoring company, reported that the service had forced offline two alleged

Decentralizing Bittorrent

P2P and the Bittorrent technology is moving to phase 2 were trackers will no longer need to be centralized on a website. A interesting move and one that may help the Podcast community. [Slashdot]

The fight for the Public Domain continues

The courts have not been very sympathetic when it comes to allowing out of print books and films to be archived and essentially preserved forever. Their is serious contention surrounding the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992, the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Berne Convention Implementation Act. If the courts fail to realize

Mobile phones the next frontier for Viruses and Worms

How many text messages do you get a day. Imagine if you will, you open one up and immediately your phone turns off or it starts sending outbound text messages one after the other. Their is a concern that this is where we are headed. I wonder how long it will be before we have to buy a virus scanner

MSN Spaces filtering badwords

I am sure all of the porn operators are trying to gobble up all of the dirty names the can over at MSN Spaces Weblog, it seems though that Microsoft was prepared and has some naughty word filters in place. [BoingBoing]

How much do you love your DVR found out the wife loves ours!

When we moved to our new house we upgraded from Analog cable to Digital and in the process signed up for the DVR package that Time Warner offers. At the time my wife was saying how spoiled I was of my gadgets. Well you know what they say boys and their toys. So to my amazement tonight I heard my

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