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/2006/02/09/the_superbowls_most_important_ad.php The funniest Super Bowl ad was probably the FedEx bit with the caveman saying "it's not my problem" FedEx hadn't been invented and the other caveman's package got stomped by the dinosaur. (Although my 14 year old son howled at... 47943@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ cellular 2006-02-09T14:33:59-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/05/aol_yahoo_will_sell_you_out_for_a_penny_maybe_less.php AOL and Yahoo have begun offering corporations "preferential delivery" of their marketing e-mails to users for prices ranging from .25-1 cent per message. The scam is being run by Goodmail Systems, whose home page advertises "if it's certified, it's safe."... 47822@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-02-05T10:32:24-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/02/corruption_on_the_web.php Verisign CEO Stratton Sclavos is a big investor in incumbency. And he gets value for money. OpenSecrets.Org reports that he gave $84,000 in political contributions during the 2004 cycle, and has (with his wife) given another $24,700 in 2005. The... 47774@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Models 2006-02-02T13:31:42-05:00 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/2006/01/30/the_law_and_google.php Google has to obey the law. Doesn’t matter if the law is oppressive, as in China. If Google wants to do business in China, it must obey the law. Google can fight stupid laws, as in the EU Google can... 47470@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ law 2006-01-30T11:52:28-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/29/this_weeks_clue_the_entrepreneurial_team.php This week's issue of A-Clue.Com is on-topic (for once). It's about e-commerce, and about how to make start-ups work. Specifically we're talking about what it takes to get a start-up launched and the character of a successful entrepreneur, who is... 47388@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ e-commerce 2006-01-29T11:14:40-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/25/porn_fight_kills_the_email_guy.php Everyone hates spam. But there has been no political constituency potent enough to fight the well-organized Direct Marketing Association, which has successfully defended spammers from meaningful regulation for a decade. Now Matthew Prince, a young Chicago lawyer, thinks he has... 47076@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-01-25T08:27:48-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/24/4_years_for_spammer_how_much_for_his_enablers.php California spammer Jeanson James Ancheta, who turns out to be a 20-year old kid, has pled guilty to computer misuse and fraud charges which should draw him a four-year sentence. Good. Ancheta is the first to be convicted of creating... 46990@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-01-24T12:57:12-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/21/railroaded.php NOTE: The following entry is being mirrored at the new Infrastructure Held Hostage blog. We live in an uneasy relationship with the past.Photograph courtesy RPI.) The whole past is available to us, there to teach us lessons, to give us... 46892@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2006-01-21T12:51:43-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/06/making_microsoft_disappear.php Ever play the old board game Risk? There were two winners at the end, and one ultimate winner. The first kid would pile all his counters up in one spot (usually Greenland, because it was big on the Risk board)... 45596@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2006-01-06T10:37:36-05:00 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/2005/12/21/web_bloatware.php One of my favorite Web bugaboos has always been bloatware. (This cute guy came up in a search for the term, but he's a blowfish, delicious batter-fried with tarter sauce. Like an aquatic drumstick.) My first run-in with this imperative... 44586@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-21T12:33:34-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/20/the_ces_hype_machine_tunes_up.php While you're all tucking into your Christmas turkey the hype machine for the next round, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is already filling media inboxes. CESlong-ago replaced Comdex as the technology industry's premier trade show.Somewhere between the Internet... 44481@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-12-20T14:03:37-05:00