http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-02-27T16:05:49-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/27/the_legend_of_dennis_hayes.php Those of you under 30 may never have heard of Dennis Hayes. But once he was somebody. I knew him. His was one of the first tech stories I wrote in Atlanta, back in 1982. Dennis Hayes made modems. His... 49433@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ History 2006-02-27T16:05:49-05:00 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/2006/02/23/no_such_thing_as_free_wifi.php Earthlink is busy turning all those dreams of free municipal WiFi into broken promises. Both the municipal deal they signed in Philly and the one they’ve joined in San Francisco (with Google) carry user price tags. In Philly they say... 49179@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ 802.11 2006-02-23T15:23:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/22/the_internet_as_a_political_issue.php Generally, political issues involving the Internet are handled by elites. Voters don't understand things like the "Brand X" decision, or the ICANN mess. All they care about is that the resource is there when they want it, at some price... 49117@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-02-22T16:02:36-05:00 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/2006/02/17/blog_pimple_about_to_pop.php Slate has another of those "blog bubble about to pop" stories out. (The doll's name is pimple, available here. We are not into grossing y'all out here at Mooreslore.) As a business story it may be 100% accurate. As a... 48828@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ blogging 2006-02-17T13:11:39-05:00 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/2006/02/12/the_phony_fon_scandal.php By ignoring what blogging is about, The Wall Street Journal has created a scandal out of whole cloth. Here's the conflation, in a nutshell. Journalists can blog, and blogs can be journalism. Thus many journalists assume all blogging is journalism.... 48413@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Journalism 2006-02-12T17:40:54-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/10/the_return_of_political_spam.php Spam is back in politics. But this time, the industry insists, it's different. This time it's e-mail marketing. Leading the charge is an outfit called Advocacy Inc., headed by Roger Alan Stone (he uses Alan so you won't confuse him... 48302@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ spam 2006-02-10T11:36:02-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/02/09/the_tv_barrier.php On another list I’ve been discussing the nefarious Bell plan to kill the Internet by hoarding digital bandwidth. Bruce Kushnick’s e-book, “The $200 Billion Broadband Scandal,” is fascinating in this regard. But what if the Bells aren’t solely to blame?... 48227@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2006-02-09T14:36:22-05:00 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/a_world_of_rationed_liberty.php If you want to launch a lynch mob against the "Chinese Communists," I'll probably be there with a pitchfork. I'm an American who believes in ordered liberty, after all. Of course, when Congress tried to get the leaders of the... 47776@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2006-02-02T14:16:12-05:00 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