http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-23T15:45:42-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/23/what_must_craigslist_do.php News of the Civil Rights lawsuit aimed at making Craigslist mediate its listings has hit The New York Times. The Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law says that the company’s current ads often violate laws against non-discrimination.... 49181@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Journalism 2006-02-23T15:45:42-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/22/google_images_ruled_illegal.php Google's Image Search service is illegal. U.S. District Judge Harold Matz of Los Angeles delivered this stunner in a suit originally filed by a porn firm, Perfect 10. At issue is the Google Image Search caching and delivery of "thumbnail"... 49116@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-02-22T15:42:32-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/15/show_trial.php During Mao's Cultural Revolution, show trials were used to cover-up the evils of the regime. Innocent parties were brought in, tried without justice, then either killed or sent to "re-education" camps. The U.S. House held its own version of such... 48648@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-02-15T12:30:34-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/14/yahoo_gets_lost_in_translation_baddaboom_baddabing.php Yahoo tried to draw some favorable press coverage today. (That's actress Charlize Theron, but she's very small, hard to recognize. That's deliberate, as you'll see.) In the wake of a scandal over the fact its Chinese affiliate cooperated with... 48566@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2006-02-14T14:37:40-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/01/st_google_and_the_dragons.php Change is the one business constant. Those who embrace it succeed, those who resist it fail. But change also dislocates. Workers threatened by change organize unions and seek protection from government. The Luddite movement was a call by workers to... 47713@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2006-02-01T20:33:14-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/23/sexual_monsters_inc.php Something occurred to me when reading of how the Justice Department wants a week of Google search records, ostensibly to enforce the failed law against Internet pornography, but with authority under the Patriot Act. This is getting someone’s rocks off.... 46978@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-01-23T15:33:59-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/20/what_jobs_could_buy_today.php Disney. The Walt Disney Co., including ABC, ESPN, the movies, the theme parks -- the whole shebang -- is presently valued at about $50 billion. That's actually about one-sixth less than it was worth five years ago. Apple Computer Corp.,... 46859@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2006-01-20T15:25:52-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/19/murder_the_beloved_country.php One reason I haven't been around much lately is I have been (finally) reading Salman Rushdie's latest 2005 1997classic Shalimar the Clown. Like all great writers Rushdie tends to be ahead of his time, sometimes far ahead. Just as his... 46726@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ fun stuff 2006-01-19T14:38:28-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/11/the_content_chimera.php The Media PC ain't gonna happen. The "walled gardens" of the cell companies are going to come down. The telcos' plans in cable are non-starters. All these huge corporations are subject to the Content Chimera, the idea that networks are... 46021@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2006-01-11T13:36:26-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/09/the_watermarking_of_the_web.php The news business is going to try cracking down on the Web this year. Already, I'm seeing all news pictures, even common mug shots of celebrities, given labels. They're small, usually in a corner. They read AP or AFP or... 45768@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-09T16:02:55-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/04/file_hoarding_10_proves_bad_business.php The AP had a headline yestoday that Luddites and the RIAA will love. "File-Sharing Barons Face Day of Reckoning." The story is that old file-sharing sites are closing up shop. The RIAA beat them. But what really beat these shops... 45320@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-04T10:32:58-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/02/fox_myspace_violates_net_neutrality.php Folks who were wondering how Rupert Murdoch and Fox would try and capitalize on the purchase of MySpace over the summer don't have to wait any longer. They're doing it by trying to break network neutrality, from inside a Web... 45215@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-01-02T08:54:11-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/16/is_this_googles_riskiest_move_yet.php Google has launched a music search service, just a week after the Music Publishers' Association launched a legal move to close lyric sites and put their owners in jail. Google has been at the forefront of the Copyright Wars and... 43249@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-16T11:43:11-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/14/monopolists_at_the_academic_gates.php For the last few days I've been needlessly obsessed with a study I found at Georgia State University, about peer-reviewed journals. (The image is of Fondren Library at Rice University, where I got some really great naps during the 1970s,... 40510@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2005-12-14T15:03:47-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/12/false_lessons_of_the_dreamworks_deal.php The sale of Dreamworks to Viacom's Paramount unit, for cash and the assumption of debt, is teaching the media and the Bellheads the wrong lesson. They lesson they're hearing is that distribution trumps production. Phone companies hear this and think... 40228@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-12-12T11:35:01-05:00