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And You Thought You Got Too Much Spam... If you thought you're receiving too much spam, don't complain to Bill Gates. He apparently receives nearly 4 million emails a day -- most of which are spam. [via Techdirt]
TiVo loses its MoJo Pop-up ads, DRM lock-down coming soon [via The Register]
Last year Wal-Mart asked their suppliers to start using RFID tags on pallets and other large containers. Wal-Mart set a date of Jan 1, 2005 to get it working. Now, it looks like Wal-Mart's suppliers won't make the deadline. There are apparently technical hurdles, and the cost of the RFID devices is always an issue, but more daunting are the business case hurdles that many companies can't get over. Rather than going for an expensive integration of RFID technology into their entire operation, about 70% of the suppliers are doing what's called "slap and ship."
Drupal and Community Sites We're using Drupal, an open-source content management system, in our Hong Kong University class on new media, for a class project about Hong Kong politics. I'm amazed at the progress this software has made since the last time I looked at it -- an assortment of enhancements that make it powerful and flexible. It's not easy
Copyright Cartel Goes for Big Score Wired News: Senate May Ram Copyright Bill. Several lobbying camps from different industries and ideologies are joining forces to fight an overhaul of copyright law, which they say would radically shift in favor of Hollywood and the record companies and which Congress might try to push through during a lame-duck session that begins this
Looking forward to ads in your RSS newsfeeds? Kind of depends on which end of the feed you're on, I would imagine. Anyway, that's roughly the question I'm asking over at IT Garage.
Looks like Dave Slusher got a good response to the idea of an unofficial unconference in Myrtle Beach, SC. I'd probably go myself, looking for a new place to situate for the winter, I want some place where I can get programming and writing work done. Turns out Myrtle Beach is very cheap this time of year. I've never seen