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/2006/02/17/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/2006/02/05/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/2006/01/30/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/2006/01/06/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/2005/12/23/family_fun_for_christmas.php Just in time for Christmas, Atlanta blogger Mingaling (right) offered me (and therefore you) access to a great family fun game for the holidays.It's actually the beta test for something called MyHeritage. It will act as a genealogical research site,... 44777@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-23T10:15:53-05:00 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/2005/12/19/time_warner_dips_into_the_funny_money_again.php Like an addict going into a bar after just getting out of jail for their last bender, Time Warner is going for the Internet funny money again. This time it's Google, which has promised to rescue Time Warner's AOL investment... 43380@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-19T12:21:23-05:00 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