2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago How Slashdot girds its servers https://slashdot.org/~CmdrTaco/journal/27736 #15yrsago In the age of ebooks, you don’t own your library https://gizmodo.com/amazon-kindle-and-sony-reader-locked-up-why-your-books-369235 #10yrsago NY judge says running a search engine for news is a copyright violation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/ap-v-meltwater-disappointing-ruling-news-search

If any of you have an in with Yahoo Mail ops, could you please ask them to unblock http://mail.flarn.com, the server I share with all of six people, none of whom are spammers? The fact that I can’t send mail to people on Yahoo and its subdomains (eg AOL) is…

Finally, the non-tech sector can hire technical workers. — Tomorrow (Mar 22), I’m doing a remote talk for the Institute for the Future’s “Changing the Register” series. As tech giants reach terminal enshittification, hollowed out to the point where they are barely able to keep their end-users or business customers locked in, the capital classes are ready for the…

2003, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago Talk radio is the province of lying demagogues, bigots and fools https://web.archive.org/web/20030402131244/http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/079/oped/Outrageous_times_for_talk_radio+.shtml #10yrsago Bruce Sterling’s closing SXSW keynote: disruption and destruction https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/bruce-sterling-closing-remarks #10yrsago How the Digital Millennium Copyright Act punishes people with disabilities https://slate.com/technology/2013/03/dmca-copyright-reform-u-s-law-makes-digital-media-inaccessible.html…

Why today’s Luddites should be smashing apps. — Today (Mar 20), I’m doing a remote talk for the Ostrom Workshop’s Beyond the Web Speaker Series. On Weds (Mar 22), I’m doing a remote talk for the Institute for the Future’s “Changing the Register” series. This week on my podcast, I read my recent Medium column, “Gig Work Is…

2002, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022. — #20yrsago Revolution is Not an AOL Keyword https://web.archive.org/web/20030322155720/http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/biplog/archive/000748.html #20yrsago United Way will provide cheap WiFi and PCs to poor people in Philly https://web.archive.org/web/20050316131603/www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7404562 #15yrsago State Department employees canned for snooping in Obama’s passport records https://web.archive.org/web/20080322110151/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23736254/

Your internet sucks because telco monopolists kept Gigi Sohn off the FCC. — So, the next time you complain about your phone service, why don’t you try using two Dixie cups with a string? We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the Phone Company. — Lily Tomlin, The Phone Company The internet is an American invention. It exists thanks to US public…

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018. — #20yrsago Indigineous prior-art database to fight bio-piracy https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2858253.stm #20yrsago Disney parks are no-fly zones https://www.cnn.com/2003/TRAVEL/03/18/airspace.restrictions/ #20yrsago MIT Press takes gutsy fair use stand https://web.archive.org/web/20030313230051/https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2003_03.shtml #15yrsago Every issue of Elfquest free — oldest independent comic goes online https://web.archive.org/web/20080319195133/https://elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics3.html…

Also, Silicon Valley is apparently a neighborhood in Manhattan? — This Monday (Mar 20), I’m doing a remote talk for the Ostrom Workshop’s Beyond the Web Speaker Series. We were told that the Silicon Valley Bank bailout wasn’t a bailout: in a bailout, it’s the investors who get public money; but with SVB, it was the depositors. But, of course…