Boston Trip 2 - Day 1
I’m off to Boston once again, to attend a Creative Commons meeting. My Mom dropped me off at Midway, Chicago’s…
TinyURL
TinyURL.com - where tiny is better! [via MarkF] Not only are these URLs shorter than MakeAShorterLink, but they’re real redirects,…
My Books
Introducing Aaron Swartz: Books, a section of my website with books I’ve read and their reviews. I’ve been looking for…
The New New New Economy
John Robb: The New Economy. John thinks the Web is killing corporate profits, but getting us consumers lower prices. He…
Copyright Lawsuit Not Included
EFF: Sing Out Against the CBDTPA, a hilarious flash animated sing-along parodying the Mickey Mouse Club song. Who believes the…
Local Wireless
I’d been seeing a second wireless network in my Airport menu so I finally got around to investigating. I opened…
Multi-Threaded Lives
In the middle of the highly-technical, E in a Walnut, I find this gem: “Walter Cronkite routinely listened to one…
I am the terrible secret of space!
Isaac Asimov via David McCusker reveals what the initial R. in a name stands for: Robot. I guess this is…
Copyright Terrorism Continues
RIAA Press Release: Recording Industry Takes Audiogalaxy.com to Court For Wholesale Copyright Infringement. I wonder if the EFF will defend…
LarryL and AaronSw
Photo credit: Richard Gibson Doesn’t Larry look like the young Ted Nelson? The blond hair, the stublle, the black…
His New Weblogging Technique is… Unusual
From the creator of MNFTIU and Get Your War On comes a hilarious parody of weblogs. Meanwhile, Mark Simonson Studios…
Microsoft Software So Insecure It Could Cost Lives
Microsoft VP Jim Allchinhas testified that Microsoft code is so insecure it cannot be disclosed. As ESR points out, either…
Other
Brits have money in sofas. Californians have fingerprint readers at McDonalds. Americans have an FBI that wastes money and invades…
“Essential Blogging” for Review
Nat has put zipped PDFs of “Essential Blogging”, O’Reilly’s new blogging book up on the Web. Is it just me,…
Emerging Technology 2002 Photos
Aaron’s Photos: Emerging Technologies 2002.…
Copyright Terrorism
As Lane Becker wrote on Meg’s weblog, Valenti and his cronies are fighting “a terrorist war on the most important…
New Hacks
Two new hacks: HTML Diff (source) highlights the differences between two HTML pages (currently semi-broken, patches appreciated) and Aaron’s Text…
Problems with MakeAShorterLink
Make A Shorter Link is a great site and a useful service but it does have its problems. They’re not…
Other
Ftrain: Google Search, 12:35 AM: Online, revenge is forever Mercury News: Imagine: world with unlimited airwaves Fray: Star Wars Memories…
Point-Headed Academics vs. Pointy-Haired Bosses
Paul Graham: Revenge of the Nerds. “The Pointy-Haired boss […] (a) [] knows nothing whatsoever about technology, and (b) []…
The Lawyers Strike Back
From Larry Lessig and Matt Haughey: Eldred v. Ashcroft (eldred.cc), a website for the noble case before the Supreme Court…
Crypto History
A fascinating interview with Ralph Merkle. Merkle invented what we now call public-key cryptography — the ability for two users…
Others
War Driving with OS X: ApScan, MacStumbler [via wmf] Speed Download [via Lemke] I don’t need my downloads to be…
The Secret alife of Webloggers
Mark Bernstein is doing some fascinating experiments with a simulated weblog community. He’s recently release his first report: ALife and…
MarkM and AaronSw
Photo credit: Wes Felter…
Emergent Hindsight
Now that Emerging Technologies is done and gone, check out two ideas from Wes Felter (and hosted by me): YouAreWhatYouUse…
Emerging Technologies - Day 3
I’m running EtherPEG — it’s awesome. (Requires Mac OS 9 or X.) We did the Creative Commons intro in the…
Emerging Technologies - Day 2
I was woken up at 4AM to help my little brother Ben with his paper on Guttenberg. I went back…
Emerging Technologies - Day 1
I’ve been taking notes on each session (watch me on the Panopticon): Tim O’Reilly on future of technology. Bob Morris…
Emerging Technologies - Day 0
We’re in the New York Times! A New Direction for Intellectual Property Hardly anyone’s doing the tutorials so we’re all…
WWW2002 - Day 5
Today was Developer’s Day. I hung out in the Semantic Web track, there was a lot of cool stuff. Check…
WWW2002 - Day 4
The conference hosted a luau/dinner thing tonight. I got there and wandered around for a little bit, not seeing anybody…
WWW2002 - Day 3
Couldn’t stand my flaky laptop so I broke down and bought a new iBook. It’s one of those fourteen-inch ones,…
WWW2002 - Day 2
My computer started flaking out on me this morning. Edd thinks it’s some sort of hardware problem. It seems to…
WWW2002 - Day 1
Although the past few days have been cloudy and raining, the sun came out for a little bit today. Tim…
Commentary
re: [the photos], are you doing some Harrumph-wannabe thing? :-)…
Beauty in Print
As of late I’ve been trying to learn how to design well. I went thru a suite of Robin Williams…