An online notebook
Of course they didn’t. But for a little while, it looked like they might have done: Apparently Qatar has a single ISP, Qtel, with a single IP address shared by the entire country. Wikipedia has blocked that IP address for anonymous edits, but is allowing users of that IP address with actual Wikipedia accounts to … Keep reading
Stuff about microformats seem to be popping up all over the place at the moment. I first came across them in a post by Simon Dickson. The latest piece appeared on the Read/WriteWeb blog, which in turn introduced me to a great series of posts by a Mozilla developer by the name of Alex Faaborg, … Keep reading
When is a Blog not a Blog? (tags: google blogs techcrunch zoli erdos) Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » The nightmare after Christmas (tags: naughton drm microsoft vista) http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt (tags: vista drm windows Microsoft security copyright software) Vista and DRM (tags: drm vista microsoft)
Quentin Stafford-Fraser (British web pioneer, who helped devise the first webcam) points to a frightening article by Peter Gutman about “Microsoft’s devotion to ‘content-protection’”. From Peter’s executive summary: Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD … Keep reading
Mike Arrington has opened up a storm of a debate over at TechCrunch, criticising the official Google blog for not allowing comments. He’s picking the issue up from a post by Zoli Erdos. He asks Is a blog really a blog if there are no reader comments? It’s an interesting question, but the answer is … Keep reading