October 29, 2003
Jack Valenti stepping down
— replaced by Billy Tauzin, who took $99k from the media industry last year #
Amazon's Book Search threatened by Author's Guild
— they bring up some great ideas, like searching cookbooks and reference materials #
AOL software silently disables Windows Messenger service
— most people don't use it, but it's a dangerous precedent #
What's the Diff: the MPAA's new anti-piracy curriculum for classrooms
— with fun activities like "Starving Artist" #
"I want to be an engineer… Sex can wait!"
— if you're an engineer, you're probably involuntarily abstaining anyway #
Wired on Amazon's full-text searching and the Internet Archive
— possibly the first time Wired has published a story online before printing it #
Mat Honan on latest anti-spam bill
— why the Burns-Wyden bill is thinly-veiled pro-spam legislation #
Amazon adds full-text searching of 120,000 books
— requires a valid credit card to view pages, though #
7th grader's Internet research gets red-flagged by FBI
— also: the Transportation Authority are a bunch of squealers #
iTunes 4.1.1 for Windows
— "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" preference is now turned off by default #