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Hijacked domain

You may or may not have heard about the hijacking of the www.hoopla.com domain from Leslie Harpold. If you haven’t, you can read more on the story at Textism, Time is Tight, MetaFilter, and diveintomark. What’s funny is that I received an email last week “warning” me that burningbird.org and other variations of “burningbird.xxx” were being scooped up and […]

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Australia and Internet civil liberties

If the fight for freedom of the Internet has a center, that center would be in Australia. I’ve long found that the difficulties inherent with trying to enforce censorship and copyright laws, as well as other related legislation, seem to get tested, first, in this country. I wrote on the possible effects of South Australian […]

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Brave new world of the internet

What is going to be the future of connectivity? What is the Brave New World of the Internet going to be? Is it going to be a system of services linked together through one centralized (but benevolent) agency? Need a service? Want to sell a service? Check into the Agency, the Agency will take care […]

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First Usenet Postings

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I moved today’s original posting to my web site OpEd page — it’s too large for a weblog. I’ll post it later this weekend when I have time to finish it. In the meantime, I’m still responding to the folks who volunteered for the RDF book tech editing process. Too many good […]